Justin's a wonderful baby BUT...! Well, the only thing we're still struggling at with him is his nighttime sleeping habits. He's now 1 week shy of 9 months but he still wakes up 2 to 3 times every night crying and yelling his heart out until mommy puts him on her breast. He's addicted to her breast and he can't sleep unless he's pacified by her breast (he does drink breast milk while he's there)! This means mommy gets only a little over 3 hours of sleep every night and of course that's very exhausting for a mommy who's working fulltime! Yes, our little Justin is conditioned to be this way and we've got to break that.

We've heard and read that the right thing to do is to let him cry. So we've tried and one night we even managed to "ignore" his crying for 25 minutes (seemed like an hour!) but of course it was so agonizing for us we gave in and picked him up. We know, this is making it worse because it's teaching him that if he cries and yells loud and long enough, he'll get what he wants. He also doesn't like any pacifiers — won't even let you stick it in his mouth! We do have him on a strict daytime napping schedule and bedtime routine but this has not proven any help at night.

We plan to try the Ferber method very soon.

A very relevant CNN.com article, When sleeping like a baby is just a dream, just popped into my Inbox as part of today's "CNN AM QuickNews" daily email newsletter — very timely!

Here's a shot of Justin just after his bath this past Wednesday.