Last night I slept on the nursery floor.
That sounds really uncomfortable, but it was a TRIUMPHANT NIGHT, and I have the rug marks on my face to prove it.
She slept in her crib all night long! I flounced into breakfast with Chebbles and Hub-D, screeching, "Hooooooray! I'm alone! The baby is NOT with me!"
Baby V's new feeding routine seems to be normalizing her sleep routine. And the "stretch 'em out" philosophy (detailed, kind of, in the post below) really seems to be working for her in other ways. She has completely stopped spitting up at all. She sleeps much more readily and soundly. She doesn't seem to be plagued by gas, and it could be my imagination, but she just seems more content.
Of course she's not content when I'm working on stretching those feedings. Today we got just two hours between midday feedings (four is the goal), but whatever. I'm not going to withhold food when she's truly hungry.
Anyway, I slept on her floor so that I could replace her pacifier in the middle of the night and comfort her before she got too upset when she woke up in the night. Also, I'd accidentally unplugged the baby monitor, and I thought it was broken, and I had no other option.
So while I curled up on the daisy rug next to her crib, cursing the store in Wyoming where I'd purchased the baby monitor and wondering if there is a troubleshooting guide online for this brand of monitor and who the hell makes such shoddy electronics, Baby V peacefully waited until 5:22am to be fed, just waking up partway a couple of times, going back to sleep without the boob.
So that is a stretch from 10pm until 5:22am, my friends. NOT IN MY BED. And once we get her daytime feeding schedule working a little better, I wonder (somewhat mystically) if longer sleep blocks might someday be possible.
I'm so convinced that the feeding schedule is responsible for this revelation in sleepytime, I want to strap a loudspeaker to the top of my car and drive around the neighborhood espousing this philosophy to all the sleepless moms in the East Bay.
6 comments:
7 and a half hours??
Wow. That's a long sleep.
I am in awe of your whatever you're doing. JA didn't sleep through the night until he was three. That's years, not months or weeks.
Happy Friday!
Did my blog teach you nothing about bragging about such things???
Oh shit you guys, I didn't realize how show-offy that post was until I re-read it. I'm so screwed.
Enjoy it! The fact is, if it works for Baby V, then it WORKS, and send up a chorus of hallelujah's and call it a good thing!!!!!!!!
Hip Hip Horizzle! I am sooooo jealous!
I guess it remains to be seen whether it will work for the night sleep. Last night, I lost her (damn) pacifier in the dead of night, and woke her up with my stumbling around and the whole thing was blown.
But hope springs eternal!
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