I'm doing my happy dance! Liam just managed to sleep through the night! I put him down at 10pm last night and he didn't wake till about 5am this morning. He woke up for a feed and then very promptly went back to sleep again so here I am, awake as ever and not quite sure what to do with myself. I'd been waiting for this day for awhile (9 weeks and 3 days to be precise) and it's a rather euphoric feeling and in my head I'm thinking 'Wow, what did I do yesterday to help him to sleep right through?'. We did have a few things to do yesterday - mother's group, lunch with a friend and then dinner for my dad's birthday (ok maybe he could've gotten a little bit pooped from the travelling).
I guess we'd been building up to it though. He was occasionally doing 4-5 hour solid blocks of sleep. In the past week, hubby and I've been woken up thinking he was after a feed but turned out he'd just managed to startle himself awake. A quick cuddle later, he was back to sleep. Then he's also been needing less feeds - previously 2-3 hours between feeds but now we've managed to stretch it to 4 hours per feed (and each feed has been a bit longer). We've been demand feeding so whatever he takes we give him though other mums tell me if I feed to a routine, it's a lot easier to get him to sleep through the night (whilst appealing, I'm more of a go with the flow kind of mum). So yay - we got there with it so hopefully this continues!
Oh I should add - I did wake up about 3 times last night, wandering over to his room to check he was ok and hovering over his face to check he was breathing (of course he was fine but here I was squinting in the dark trying to work out whether he was breathing - sometimes I think I would benefit from one of those mats that babies can sleep on that monitors their breathing to save me startling him awake with my crazy face in the middle of the night). Ah the joys of motherhood!
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