For the first 3 days this week, Baby has napped twice a day for a total of 3.5-4.5 hours and has slept pretty well at night. I was starting to think that we were getting somewhere. A lot of the naps were not in my arms, which was great because I needed phone time to follow up on all the day care waiting lists we are on. I was still going to sleep too late to take real advantage of his better night sleeping, but was feeling more energized nonetheless.
Yesterday - Day 4 - the naps were much shorter. The dog woke Baby up with useless barking (why does the dog need to bark when mail/flyers are dropped off) and I was not able to get him back down even though I was pretty sure he was still tired. So, during the evening he was cranky and clingy but I was able to get him off to bed before 8pm.
Up again at 12:08am, I managed to crawl back into bed about 1:30, but was up again at 2:30. I then spent the rest of the night sitting up in Baby's room with both of us in and out of sleep until 5:40 when he was up for good. Interesting that he seemed to be really feeding a lot during the night (most nights he seems to be sucking while not really feeding). I am wondering if I am not feeding him enough during the day even though he is getting 3 solid meals a day. (Cannot wait until he can communicate hunger separate from everything else).
So of course, since he was up at 5:40 am, he ended up going down for a nap at 9:30 am the morning we have 'Ready for Reading' at the library. We did not make it. Probably sadder for me since this is the one time a week I get to interact with other moms.
He is currently sleeping in his stroller, hopefully for another hour or two.
I wonder if this means that 2 days from now he will be sleeping well again........
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