Sleeping Update

In a matter of a week and a half we went from Logan being totally swaddled & waking up for a feeding at midnight, 3am and 5am and NOW we are totally swaddle'less & waking up for just one feeding between the hours of 4am and 5am! It wasn't all easy - the first few days we were like walking zombies...he would wake up almost every hour. There was one night that I just sat in his room while he cried. I was tired of trying to help him calm down but it made me feel better to just be in there and know that he was ok that he was just having a hard time putting himself back to sleep.

In the process we learned a couple things:
1. Be consistent. Make a plan & stick to it. The other times we had tried we were too wishy washy & we both caved into his cries too easily
2. Not to take him out of his crib. Period. When he did need calming down - ie: patting his butt, pacifier, help finding his thumb, rolling back to his side, or all three it was done with him in the crib. As soon as we did that his waking up drastically decreased - or so we think.....
3. We also have been leaving the monitor off at night - his room is directly across from ours and we figured any noise worth attending to we would be able to hear without the monitor.
What a luxury that has been! It's amazing how many little noises come through the monitor at night that wake you up.

The past few nights I've slept sooo well - it helps that I've had my first 3 nights in almost 5months with 6 uninterrupted hours of sleep. I feel like a new woman.



On the road to a sleep filled night for us & baby!