After that relapse described in my last post, sleep has been decent with some breakthroughs here and there. Bedtimes have returned to being pleasant. There has been an off night here or there... but then last night...
2/27/2013 I had test I had to take. It started at 5:30, so I went there right after work. I did not know how long it would last but was guessing an hour, and that I would be able to do it faster than that. Well. I couldn't, and it was long, and I did not get home until 7:30pm, 30-45 minutes after Benjamin's normal "lights out". I walked in to DH sitting on the laptop. Benjamin had gone to bed with no problem, even with my absents, even without breastfeeding! This is very exciting and makes me much more comfortable about my scheduled trip in April.
Benjamin woke up at 9:20pm and I fed him then, and he went right back down, no problem (which is usual). I told DH at that time that I wanted to work on pushing out the feedings to five hours (we have been at four hours for quite some time), and that therefore I was planning on not feeding him until hopefully 2am.
We went to bed a bit early, I was asleep by 10:30pm. The next thing I know, its 4am and DH is up changing the alarm clock, not a peep from Benjamin. I go back to sleep, Benjamin finally wakes up around 5:15am and I feed him, he goes back to sleep until 6:15am and gets up like normal.
Thats right folks, SEVEN HOURS. Please please please let this become a pattern.....
2/28/2013 One thing I forgot to mention, he has been napping horribly at daycare. I am not sure how much of it is him refusing and how much is the daycare folks not trying. Who knows. I am giving it a few days before I speak to them about it, especially in light of last nights successes. Anyways, a little funny thing happened at bedtime. I will remind you of the routine. Change him into Pajamas, lotion him up, and head upstairs. Then we read/play in his room for a bit. Then we tell him its time to turn on the projector. We let him press the button to turn it on (up on top of a shelf), and then we let him turn the light switch off. I feed him and then let him do what he wants while the projector plays, but encourage him to do calm things, like sit on my lap and rock, listen to me talk, hug stuffed animals, or even cuddle on the floor. He was on my lap reading a book when he asked to be put down. I put him on the floor, and he went to sleep. LOL. Normally he wants down because he does NOT want to calm down yet and is going to find a toy, but tonight he wanted down because he wanted to get busy sleeping on his stomach, and he was not comfortable on my lap on his back. It was pretty awesome. I am hoping he repeats last night. If he does, I will expect him to wake up around 2am to eat, and then sleep again until we get up! Cross your fingers....
2 comments:
I hope last night went well!
I understand your sentiment about the napping situation. N hasn't taken a morning nap at the sitter for a couple of months now and I don't know if it's that he's too busy or that the sitter doesn't try hard enough. I think if he slept better there, he'd sleep better at night (my kids get overtired and sleep worse the more tired they are).
That's so exciting! KMFX for you!!!
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