Night One

So, the past week, Isabella has gotten more difficult to put to bed. She will fall asleep while nursing, sleep for an hour then wake up around 10pm ready to party. It can take an hour or sometimes even more to get her back to sleep then she is up usually at 5am.
I'm exhausted especially since the older kids have been on Christmas break and have been home for 2 1/2 weeks.... which doesn't help with trying to get Bella to nap during the day either.
So tonight after nursing, rocking in the chair, rocking her standing up and singing along to her favorite lullaby (which happens to be Marry You by Bruno Mars) on my Iphone, I felt confident putting her down. I should have known better and waited for another round of Marry You before doing it cause the minute I laid her down, her eyes popped wide open and she was up. THE WORST FEELING EVER (well, one of them anyways)
Well, I just couldn't do it anymore so I left the Iphone on repeat, tucked her in and left the room. At first she was quiet and I thought I had struck gold and I was totally falling in love with Bruno! But no such luck. She started crying and I had no idea what to do. So of course, I went onto Facebook lol
I asked for help from all my FB mommies to see if there was something that I was missing or some secret technique that I have been missing out on. I got alot of replies and advice from friends. All the while, Bella was upstairs crying.
But about after 20 minutes or so of talking with my FB army of moms, Isabella actaully fell asleep! I was worried about her falling asleep from crying it out and being stressed and waking up a few times in the night but she didn't! She slept for 9 hours!
Now, I am not a cry it out kinda mom. Lexi and I have had a couple of bad experiences that involved one night with her covered in puke and another night a horrible case of diarrhea when she was baby and I swore if we had anymore kids, I would never do it again.
But I thought to myself, Isabella was only "crying" it wasn't a pain cry or an panicked cry, just a I'm not getting what I want cry and it worked. So maybe I will give it another try tomorrow and see what happens.....