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January 19, 2006
Sleep Update
At risk of jinxing ourselves (and annoying all our friends who are still experiencing sleep difficulty), we're happy to report Sophie has been consistently sleeping 11-12 hours a night since we stopped letting her fall asleep while we were holding her, and while she was having a bottle. She's also been napping a solid 1-2 hours during the day, usually with a single nap-time.
We're sure there are other factors involved (we also bought one of those white noise sound machines on eBay after using one at Scott & Roi's, she likes the rain sound) and she may start sleeping poorly again as soon as teething resumes in earnest, but the past two nights she hasn't even cried when we put her to bed! She just lays in her crib with Big Bird and her fuzzy blanket and watches us shut the door; not even a whimper!
Prior to this, she'd usually wake up for the third or fourth time of the night between 4 and 5am, and we were just so tired we didn't bother trying to put her back down in the crib. Instead we'd crawl back in bed and try to get another hour or so while she flopped around and often cried in protest. Now we can get up (rested!) and have a half hour or so to wake up before starting her day. I'd forgotten what it's like to wake up on my own!
Posted by Jacob at January 19, 2006 4:24 PM