I am always looking for reasons for it being a "good day". Last night was a good night. I'll probably go on a little tangent or two as well. So most know, I sleep with my babies, as newborns. I am not a huge fan of "cry it out"...but that is me. I know it works for others, I just have my reasons. I hope I have not offended anyone. Anyhow, normally what I do with my kids and sleeping through the night, they start off in their cribs, and sometime during the night, when they wake up, I either feed them and put them back in their cribs, or bring them to bed with me. It starts to get longer and longer and more spread out over time. I stop feeding and just go in and comfort with the bink and walk away. Lately, I don't even remember how Kyle ends up in my bed. Kevin tells me it's between 1 and 2, so that is good since Kyle goes to bed around 8-9.
The reason for my happy news....last night he went to bed about 8:30...woke up at 11:30 and I fed him, no big deal since I was still "awake". Well, Kyle woke up at 1:30 again, but I didn't feed him. I told myself when i went to bed that I HAD to wake up when he did and not just be a zombie. I went into his room, gave him the bink and walked out. He woke up again at 4:30 and I did the same thing. He woke up again at 6:30 and I picked him up to feed him (his hands were like icicles...poor kid. I almost yelped when he touched me, while feeding him. Yes, we turned on our heater last night, too). Many will say...shouldn't your happy news be that he SLEPT through the night? Well...to me, not having to "get up to feed" is a HUGE step. for him not eating for 7 hours is HUGE!! I didn't even pay attention to his grunting after the bink. He just went back to sleep. This means we are working our way out of the late night feeding! THAT is my happy news!! My not so happy news was how engorged I was..but we'll deal with that. Anyhow---many are saying...let him just cry. I think Justin has done well with his sleep and just got off two naps right before he turned 2..so we did something right! This weekend was another story (sorry Lori), but we all get out of sync when we are gone from our own homes, right?!
So here's to cutting out night feedings and working on sleeping the whole night (10-12 hours is the "whole night" for me)Well get there...zombie or no zombie.
06 October 2008
Reason to Celebrate
Posted by Potter Family at 9:27 AM
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Baby steps! Good for you that Kyle was able to go back to sleep not once but twice last night. Of course, you can't get off so eash ~ being engorged is his payback : (
I hear you! I could never let my kids just cry it out. As a result, I would end up feeding and burping PILLOWS at night thinking it was the baby--that's what happens when you're tired! :) I totally lucked out this time though. I tried Babywise and Garrett has slept through the night since he was a week old. I actually have to wake HIM up to feed him before I hop in the shower in the morning! I feel so lucky--I totally needed it though--5 boys have a way of sucking the energy right out of you! Good luck and hopefully his transition to sleeping through the night is a quick one!
That is great that you are getting him to go without feeding all night. I hope things go in the right direction from now on.
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