Sleep

On Tuesday morning my husband informed me that Ducks was going into her crib in the room with Boogs that night. He was then going to tie me to the bed so that I didn't get up and get her every 5 minutes. It was time that she learned how to sleep for the night. He then proceeded to put together her crib reinforcing that it would happen. Now, she's been a fairly good sleeper for the most part anyway. But we'd have to get up a couple times a night to hit the vibrator on the bed (really...who can blame her?!) and stick her woobie back in her mouth. And once a night, she'd eat. For 3.5 months old, I thought that was pretty good.

Apparently though, I'm violent when I have to get up at night. On Monday night I had (I'm told) thrown a blanket and then looked about like I was going to throw Ducks. I would never throw her. She's my baby Ducks! But I will admit that after getting up and down five times I was frustrated. So to some extent I guess I was ok with the idea of putting her in her room.

After the crib was put together, Ducks did take a nap in it and seemed to drift off without problem. Then sleep for an hour and 20 minutes. The exact amount of time we said she should nap. It appeared things would go without a hitch! Tuesday night, she ate her "last" meal around 9:30 and then went to her bed. No crying, she just fell asleep. Around 4am she woke up, and I tried to just give her a woobie and turn on the glowworm, but that didn't work. I knew she was hungry. Brian fought me on feeding her, but clearly that was the only thing that would soothe her. And really...she's 3.5 months old and breastfed...many breastfed babies get up more than once at night to eat. So he finally said (angrily) "do what you want" and so I fed her and she went right back to sleep afterward...in her bed.

Yesterday, Brian said he was very proud of her, because she napped in her crib without problem whenever he put her in. And then last night we basically repeated Tuesday night, with feeding, then sleeping in her bed. She got up at 3 am, and I didn't even attempt anything else...I just went ahead and fed her...although she ate while pretty much still asleep...so I don't know that that was the best way to go about it, but then again, when she was done eating, back to her crib and she slept the rest of the early morning time!

And I got sleep! Granted it probably helps that the past two nights I was also asleep by 10-10:30 and not 11:30-12 like the past month or two. But contrary to my "needs" as a mommy to have my baby Ducks right by me, my baby Ducks is big enough to sleep in her own bed in her own room now and she's doing so very well. *sigh* Time goes too quickly sometimes and babies get too big too fast.