I've posted before about my daughter coming with a non-sleep coating, and expressed a fervent desire that my newborn would be the opposite. Well it's come true! He slept pretty well at night after the first few days of adrenaline filled wakefulness, we were both full of endorphins after the speedy birth - he never did the big crash out most newborns do to get over the birth process.But generally he'd only wake2-3 times in a night The only problem was his colic, that stopped him from settling easily after a feed.I started following Tracy Hogg's routine from about 6 weeks. The first two days were a little hard - it was difficult stretching his feeds from maybe an hour and a half apart to three hours, and I had to keep checking the timetable over and over again! But as soon as he was getting regular sleeps, he started sleeping more and more. Since his last osteopathy visit he's been sleeping huge naps, I often have to wake him for feeds! And he gets tired even before bedtime. But best of all, I followed her bedtime procedure - bath, change, cuddle, into bed and lullaby, then pat/shh to sleep. After about two nights getting used to this (I'd been putting him in bed asleep, feeding to sleep) he just grabbed onto it, and was asleep with his thumb in his mouth as soon as his head hit the pillow. I can - unbelievably - put him down and walk away! I don't even want to be out of the room that fast, and stay with him longer than he's interested in!
Would my daughter have done the same if I'd tried it early enough? I don't think so. She had a completely different relationship with sleep. I think it would have helped though.
But it's just amazing. To be downstairs at 8pm, knowing I have a whole evening (to feck about online, ahem) to myself is magic. And then I feed him before 11, before I go asleep, he generally goes to about 3am, sometimes later, and on a good night doesn't wake til 6.30/7. Amazing!
So I'm going out for the night tomorrow, he'll take a bottle no problem, and I know I don't have to worry about him. Magic!
3 comments:
I hope you have that photo in a frame and hanging on the wall. It's amazing.
Beautiful baby!
no no, it's not my baby, it's Google images baby!
I love your blog, and metrodad's for the photos but I decided at the start to keep this anonymous, though it's hard, especially since my son's birth and the time my daughter was ginving me the finger in her sleep!
It's a tough call, but I don't want them suing me in a few years, when their therapy bils alone will be crippling me anyway :)
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