Last night Alethea was up 5 times between 3:00am and 7:00am, which makes for a bit of a rough night for me.  However, I was encouraged by a couple of things:

The first good thing is that when I went in at her 3:00am wake up Alethea had managed to roll all the way to the bottom of the crib and get stuck in a corner, so I had to pick her up to reposition her.  Now in the past, if I have to adjust her at all during the night, she gets quite upset with me for picking her up and putting her right back down, but last night, she just whined a little, I gave her the nuk back and she went to sleep within about 20 minutes (down from two and a half hours of whining after repositioning on Saturday night!)

The second encouraging sign is that in two of the five wake ups, she actually went back to sleep without the pacifier in her mouth.  I heard her spit it out, and thought, “O great, I wonder how long we will play the ‘spit out the pacifier and then whine because it’s gone’ game.”  But no, she just talked to herself for a few minutes and then everything was quiet and I just lay there listening for the cry that never came.

I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up, but maybe this means we are making some progress on the journey toward independent sleeping.