Reading and Sleeping

Ok, things are going pretty ok on the sleeping front. We are slowly figuring this out, and by we I mean me, Mr. P and especially the Critter.

I've been reading the Baby Whisperer book, and I like this. It is like the good parts of Ezzo without the crazy-making tight schedule thing. They both espouse the Eat-Activity-Sleep sequence, which we had not really been doing. But even in the few days I've been trying this with the Critter, she is responding really well. She still gets boob drunk tired after a feed, but only for a few minutes, so I chalk it up to digestion time, and get her moving to an activity after a few minutes of snuggle/boob drunkenness. Then about 45 minutes later she is nodding off, so up to a nap. And she goes down! How long she naps varies, but 45 min is typical. We'll begin to stretch this out, so she has fewer, longer naps, but for now, napping at all is great.

The night time deal is also progressing - we are liking the idea of cluster feeding her at night, so at 6 and 8pm, which 8pm being a big one, then a dream feed around 11ish. With this system, she's only been up once in the night for a feed/wet diaper change, so this is progress. And with Mr. P taking the dream feed, I get to sleep from like 9pm til 3am, which is sooooo great. My boobs, not the critter, woke me up last night. Hooray!

So we are making progress around here. It feels good, like the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter.

I plan to read the Healthy Sleep, Happy Baby today, so I'll post my thoughts on that soon. So far, I really like the Whisperer book, it just makes sense without being rigid. But we can incorporate other ideas too, so stay tuned!