It's a good thing babies are cute. Nolan has been sleeping like a baby. You know up every couple of hours crying and wanting to eat. It got worse around 3 months and lasted about a month. I was exhausted and cranky and pretty much a zombie. At his 4 month appointment I mentioned his horrible sleep to our pediatrician. Not really normal as he was waking 3-4 times every night. She suggested sleep training him (ie let him fuss it out more) or possibly trying a little baby cereal at bedtime. We sleep trained two nights before I decided to give the cereal a little try. He was up an hour later with crying and tummy ache/gas pain. We hoped it was a fluke and tried again the next night with more time between cereal and bedtime. He barely went down this time and same tummy trouble. So cereal was out. We'll try again around 6 months as planned.
Somewhere amid the bloodshot eyes and collapse in brain function one of us remembered the girls doing well with white noise and a strict bed routine. So I found a white noise machine the next day and tried out a bed routine of rocking him and reading/looking at a book with Nolan then feeding him and laying him down drowsy but awake as usual. Holy cow! The kid slept and he slept good. He went down around 7:30 or 8 pm and didn't stir until about 1:30 am. Unheard of. We both woke around 1 am and asked the other if he'd woken up yet. I even sent Jeff in to check on him. Out cold. Praise to the white noise machine. He woke up shortly after the check and wanted to eat. I fed him and put him back down within 15-20 minutes. He was out again until almost 6:00 am. It was marvelous. And it pretty much happened again last night. I feel so rested. Rested to the point I'm almost groggy when I wake up because I'm not used to so much sleep. Yeah!! Normal sleep is coming back in the picture for a visit...you know until teething or a growth spurt hits again.
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| A cute picture of the littles...they all looked at me for it...AMAZING!! |
2 comments:
Wonderful!!!!' I've always been an advocate of find out what works for your family and stick to it. Here's to many more nights of good sleep
Ps: I'm surprised the dr suggested cereal I've read so many times that does help and Nolan has proved me right
Adorable photo!
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