Easter eggs

An eventful Easter holiday for the family Yang.
So far, the controlled crying has been going very well. A typical evening now consists of a 7.30pm feed and afterwards into the cot still awake. A few minutes of fussing and then she sleeps for anything up to 6 hours. Another feed at between 12am to 2.30am and she’ll happily go back to sleep until 5am. Then she cries and we either respond with more feeding or, and this has been our preference – we leave her to cry until she stops and wakes up again – so far not later than 6am. Not too bad and quite manageable.
We have also begun trying solids with a few teaspoons of very dilute baby rice. The first two days were just a messy game, but by day three, she did actually swallow three spoonfuls. According to all the guidebooks, this is very normal and in fact at this age, 2 teaspoons is more than adequate. It’ll take several more weeks of trying and then offering new tastes gradually. What we also found is that her desire for milk has increased also (probably since she now feeds less at night). I’ve bought a nice baby recipe book and am looking forward to the challenge of making new foods.
All was going so swimmingly that we were on a roll, so I thought we should try our luck with controlled crying during the day. Usually, this is a big problem as Aimee is used to being carried on her baby carrier all day or at least amused by a variety of toys and swings. If she sleeps, it is very short naps. But yesterday I put her down when I thought she was tired but the poor mite screamed for over an hour. Finally, Cat could stand it no more and checked on her, only to find a nappy full of poo. Oh boy, did we feel bad.
Not only that, but last night, she woke up at 2am and screamed until 5am, because (a) she expected a 2am feed, but got none, and (b) she thought we would pick her up since that is what we did during the day.
So I am at work, bleary eyed but in retrospect, a successful long weekend.