Sleep Update

Dori has gifted us with an 8 hour stretch at the beginning of the night the past 4 nights! It's the 4-5 hours after that are the killers. He goes down at 5pm, wakes around 1am for milk. Then he wakes every half hour or so after that. We're still working on that part. It's hard because it gets to be evening and all of a sudden, I'm just not tired and ready to go to bed early with him. Plus, I really need some downtime after caring for Dori all day and there are all these nursing books I was hoping to get a headstart on before the program starts. So I don't go to bed until around 10 or 11. Then I wake at 1 to feed him and then have broken sleep for the next few hours. Plus, my neighbor's house got broken into Friday morning so I've been freaking out about being home alone the past couple nights. I was so exhausted this morning. Luckily, my parents took him at 7am so I could get another couple hours of sleep. We are getting somewhere though! A couple weeks ago, he didn't sleep more than 3 hours at a time (and that was unusual!) so the consistent 8 hour stretch is awesome!!! And if you're wondering why he goes down at 5pm, it's because he's exhausted come 4pm or so since he doesn't really nap. All the sleep books I have read have said to put your baby down super early if he doesn't nap. Get his nighttime sleep sorted out and eventually the naps will follow. Some days he naps for 20 minutes, other days he'll take two 2 hour naps. It's just not consistent. And we do try to keep it routine, we put him down and let him cry it out. But some days, it just doesn't happen. Still, we're definitely getting somewhere!!!