We had a major first on Saturday night. A historic moment that should be forever etched on my memory.
Nate slept through the night.
Meaning that I didn’t have to go into his room between 9:30 pm and 6:45 am. He woke twice, but went back to sleep on his own with out any fuss. That counts as “through the night”, right? Of course I had to get up at 6:30 to pump before my poor boobies exploded!
So far it has been a one time occurrence, but in general he seems to be doing better. Out of the last 6 nights we have only had one night that I would consider “bad” and even it didn’t involve any real fussing, just frequent waking.
I’m sure that you’re all so sick of hearing about my little man’s changing sleep patterns by now that you’re about ready to give up me, but I’m sure most Mom’s out there can sympathize with the fact that sleep is a central issue of life with a 5 1/2 month old! So bear with me!
I’ll try to make up for it by sharing some recent 365 pics:
Feb 27 – Multitasking
Feb 28 – Indulgences
Feb 29 – Eating Cereal for the First Time!
Mar 1 – Jenn M. and Nate
Mar 2 – Plates at Plates Diner
Mar 3 – Turner’s Beloved Chuck It
That’s all for the 365. Don’t forget to check out Christy’s Blog for the (short) list of One Month – For Our Health Challenge participants. Jackie isn’t on the list, but I think she is participating too. As for me, I’m not off to a great start. I missed my smoothie yesterday. No real excuse. I went out for brunch and was invited to my sister’s in-laws’ for dinner and just didn’t feel like a smoothie as a bedtime snack. But I was back on track today. And it’s going to stay that way. Really. It is!
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March 3, 2008 at 9:43 pm
reesh
That definitely counts as sleeping thru the night! Yay! I am hoping now that Nadia’s surprise tooth is in we’ll be sleeping much better for at least a couple nights until it’s mate turns up! (Lily’s teeth always came in pairs)
Hope tonight is just as great!
March 3, 2008 at 10:40 pm
eva
Congratulations! I will never ever get sick of reading about Nate’s sleep! It’s very comforting to read the ups and downs that other moms go through with their babies’ sleep habits. Looks like Nate enjoyed his cereal 🙂 ps – yay! I had to pump this morning too after a good long night’s sleep!
March 4, 2008 at 4:31 am
jackie
Great multitasking picture! Congrats on the full nights rest; and don’t worry about the smoothie, if it was easy it wouldn’t be a challenge 🙂
March 4, 2008 at 10:34 am
Christy
Don’t worry about the smoothie, you got to sleep!!!
thanks for pointing out that I missed Jackie, I added her to the list 🙂
March 4, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Megan
Sleep is HUGE! No denying that. YAY Nate! Great work, little man. Love the pics.
March 4, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Emily
Stumpled across your blog and believe I have a baby not much older than yours. Congratulations on your little guys sleep improvements. Sleep is off the essence in my corner as well. We have all been playing musical beds and I have not been consistent due to constant changing sleep patterns and nighttime behaviour and the degree of my personal sleep deprivation. So I bought a book on sleep. Didn’t really even research which book to buy – too tired. I read it. It did not promise “no crying”, it promised “least crying”. It offered check-ins (but no touching) at regular intervals until the babe was asleep. I agreed with its premise that at a certain point babes won’t learn to put themselves to sleep unless you give them the opportunity to try. And in the long run, there would be less overall crying once they got through the hard bit (after all they’re crying as you rock them right?) – I liked the sound of that. Thought I’d try. But first I’d monitor the length of her night time feeding and their frequency for a week and decide which feedings could go all together and which could be weaned. (As if there’s even a pattern!) I would start in earnest after that. The same day she turned six months old and we had a little ritual good-bye to her pacifiers. I vowed, no more (she’s clearly been trying to wean herself anyway, but doesn’t quite know how to give them up in certain situations, and mom or dad have to get up to reinsert). I also vowed to try my hardest to put her back in her own bed all night. Phew…this was going to be a rough night.
Well, guess what. She fell asleep without her pacifier after only 19 minutes (precisely) and no hard core crying. (The book said to brace yourself for an hour.) Intermittent crying, some whining, some growling. I heard her put herself back to sleep (in less than 5 minutes) once, and other than that I didn’t hear her until she demanded a feeding at 3:30. She slept 8 hours! Then, back to her bed, cried for a minute, fell asleep for three more hours. WTF? Was it the presence of the book in the house, or the absence of the pacifier? Probably neither. It was something mysterious in the head of a very unpredictable little sleeper. Was her best night ever. I’m sure tonight will be hell! Hang in there.
March 4, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Corey
oh my….sleep is GOOD! I hope this is a sign of things looking up in that department. hugs.
March 4, 2008 at 5:50 pm
theunforgivingminute
Love the multitasking pic! Congrats on your big sleep!
March 4, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Valerye
I am not sure that Jonas has EVER slept 5 hours straight. Maybe. But I am not sure. He is an every 3 or 4 hour nurser. And its not like he has a few sucks and falls back asleep, its a thorough meal. He goes to bed by 8pm, nurses around midnight and then again at 3 or 4AM and then at 6AM and then either we get up or he passes out for another hour. Is he hungry? Is it habit? Maybe both. At the moment this arrangement works for us. I think I have just adjusted and accepted things; maybe I am too tired. haha. maybe I will blog about this. But he is a year and has teeth now and well, doesn’t the milk at night rot his teeth???? hmmm. well, we have a rhythm at the moment but its not perfect. It works. I barely even wake up to feed him these days – I just kind of roll over, lean into him and he finds his milk righ away and then i fall asleep……seems like everyone has their own way with dealing with the night time and their baby. Its good to hear what the other mums are doing…