First 9 hour gap overnight!
Well, we fed her around 8 last night and didn't feed her till 5:15 this morning. Yah!
But that actually was quite a bit of "work". Around 1:30 am, she cried, so we put the dummy in. 2:30, again, so dummy again.
What's been happening the last few nights is that, she's not really sleeping through without waking up and needing attention. So there's been a few dummy runs to help her get back to sleep. I don't know when this started or why this is... she used to be able to either sleep through or put herself back to sleep without crying for attention.
Anyways, so I think from 3am, there's a few more times... till 4:15, put the dummy in, had 30 mins of peace... 4:45, then 5am... She was still relatively happy just sucking on the dummy when I took her out for a feed at 5:15.
You see, if she's happily sucking on the dummy, usually means she's not really that hungry yet. Sleeping or getting some comfort is still better than screaming for food.
I was determined to let her get used to the longer gap in between the feed overnight, so I didn't really mind the running back and forth. I did get some catnaps in between, so wasn't feeling too bad.
So I hope eventually we will see more of these longer gaps at night... eventually she will sleep through without having to wake up at night! :P
Sally
But that actually was quite a bit of "work". Around 1:30 am, she cried, so we put the dummy in. 2:30, again, so dummy again.
What's been happening the last few nights is that, she's not really sleeping through without waking up and needing attention. So there's been a few dummy runs to help her get back to sleep. I don't know when this started or why this is... she used to be able to either sleep through or put herself back to sleep without crying for attention.
Anyways, so I think from 3am, there's a few more times... till 4:15, put the dummy in, had 30 mins of peace... 4:45, then 5am... She was still relatively happy just sucking on the dummy when I took her out for a feed at 5:15.
You see, if she's happily sucking on the dummy, usually means she's not really that hungry yet. Sleeping or getting some comfort is still better than screaming for food.
I was determined to let her get used to the longer gap in between the feed overnight, so I didn't really mind the running back and forth. I did get some catnaps in between, so wasn't feeling too bad.
So I hope eventually we will see more of these longer gaps at night... eventually she will sleep through without having to wake up at night! :P
Sally
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