sleep is gooooooooood

[vernacular_life]

I'm not ready to shout praises of joy just yet, but again, Ben had an awesome night of sleep

Last feeding - 7:00
In bed by 7:45 - no squalks or need to be soothed
awoke at 4:45 - nursed for 20 minutes
back in bed by 5:05
awoke for day at 8:45

Oho, and only one arm swaddled, and no paci. He pulled the 2nd arm out pretty much as soon as he was wrapped, so I'm going to just ditch the Miracle Blanket tonight and see how it goes.

It would be AWESOME if this sleep pattern keeps up, esp once I go back to work. Idealy, both Judd and I will get up around 6, I'll feed Ben, put him back to bed. Judd will work out, I'll get ready to leave. Ben will sleep until Judd's done getting ready and he'll get changed and dropped at Daycare.

(i know the way things work is that Ben's sleep will be perfect UNTIL we need him on a 'schedule')

Comments

[ami-tutti.livejournal.com]

wow, that's a killer amount of sleep.
generally, nate goes to bed between 8:30-10:00 these days and wakes up anywhere from 5:00-7:00. he likes a little wiggle room, i guess!
still, it's through the night and god knows i'm thankful for THAT!

[lkell.livejournal.com]

yay for sleep ... GO BEN!

[tray85.livejournal.com]

That is awesome! Can Ben send Katie the "how to" sleep memo? She was up at 4am & didn't want to go back to sleep until 5:30-6ish this morning. WTF!?

[onelargecat.livejournal.com]

How old was he when he got out of this constant nurse/sleep pattern that my kid is in? I'm assuming this is a newborn thing and not just particular to my baby. I can't even imagine yet actually "putting him down" for anything called a nap or for nighttime...right now it's just nurse if he's awake, sleep for an hour or two in between....

[vernacular-life.livejournal.com]

I think by the time he was about 6 weeks old we had a kind of a routine down...I'd say the defined 'naptime' probably started a bit earlier - around 3-4 weeks.

I'd notice after his morning wakeup and feeding (morning being 7-8 am), there'd be a growing time of 'happy alert baby' time where I'd put him in a bouncy seat and 'talk' to him or read the paper or something. I think it only started at about 20 or 30 minutes before he'd fall asleep