Helping a newborn sleep through the night is always a topic of conversation among parents. Babies are all different, so it is hard to say when they should start sleeping through the night or how we can help them do that. But I know Micah has it in him to sleep at least 5 hours at night. He did it the second day he was home from the hospital, it just happened to be at 2:00 in the afternoon. So in an effort to re-arrange his schedule to where he sleeps those 5 hours at night, we have been making sure we wake him up every 3 hours during the day so he gets all his feedings in and will hopefully sleep more at night. It is working, but it is definitely not the easiest thing to do! Sometimes the little man just doesn't want to wake up....it does provide good entertainment, but it does not make things easy on us! Check out this adorable video of our little man....
Any tips out there from you parents will be welcomed with open arms. But until then, we will keep doing what we are doing, because it seems to be working! Now he is going between 4-5 hours every night...yay!!! Now if we could just get to 8 hours, I might get myself a good night's sleep!
bella slept one eight hour stint a couple of weeks ago, when she was still in her pack&play in our bedroom... but since we put her in her own room, her own crib, she's been sleeping through the night fairly consistently! i swaddle her in the swaddleme (those velcro swaddle blankets) and make her room dark before i put her down... we also have a sound machine that we put on that we've used from the beginning to let her know it's time for bed. we've also started letting her cry at least 30 minutes if she starts crying when we first put her down... don't know if ANY of this helps... sounds like yall are doing a great job ;) can't wait to meet little micah!!
ReplyDeleteThat is hilarious...He is so adorable! Keep up the good work...it takes time.
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