Well, today was an awesome day. Wifey and I woke up and looked at each other. We both assumed that the baby must have woken up during the night and that the other one of us must have taken care of her.
Wifey looks at me and says “what time did you get up with Alex?” I replied, “I didn’t”. We both went in to check on her and there she was, just starting to stir and looking content.
I don’t know what, if anything, suddenly changed, but our current routine (and one we plan to keep) is to put her to bed around 8pm. Our little ritual is to change her diaper, put her in a night gown, and then feed her. We start around 7:15pm or 7:30pm and finish by about 8pm.
Once feeding is over, we bring her to her crib, sing twinkle twinkle little star to her and kiss her good night. We then tuck her under her blanket (which is tightly tucked into the sides of the mattress to avoid going over her face) and turn on her mobile. If she wants it, we give her a pacifier. She usually falls asleep within a few minutes.
We go to bed around 11pm, so we’ll wake up the baby about a half hour before then, change her and “top her off” with a bottle, then put her back to bed. She is usually pretty groggy when we wake her up so she goes back to sleep pretty easily afterward.
For the past couple of weeks, she’s been sleeping later and later, not waking us up until four or five in the morning. Now she seems to have found a rythym and is able to sleep through the night.
I am a firm believer that one of the contributing factors to her sleeping so well is that we have always had her sleeping in her crib since the day we brought her home. There have been times I would peek in on her and see that she had woken up, but was happily looking at her mobile and eventually falls back asleep.
The truth is that she probably doesn’t sleep through the night, but instead wakes up and looks around for a while and is then able to go back to sleep on her own since she is comfortable in her crib and we always put her in her crib while she is still awake. Several books I’ve read say you should avoid waiting until the baby is totally asleep before putting her in her crib as this will confuse the baby when she wakes up in the middle of the night as she expects to still be in your arms.
Whatever the magical formula is, I am glad that baby Alex has found her comfort zone and is now able to sleep through the night.
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