Someone Slept Through the Night!

Since Dean works 2pm to 2am, he's been staying on that schedule even on his days off to take the middle of the night feeding so that I can possibly get a decent nights sleep (as long as Scarlett cooperates). Dean will stay up till about 3:30 waiting for her but if she wakes after that then she's mine. Or if she wakes up before he gets home from work. But she's been really good about waking between 2 and 3 (I think she's enjoying having some Daddy time.) Also since he's home, if Scarlett is still asleep during school drop off time (7:45) or Kindergarten pick up time (10:30) I will just leave her sleeping and turn the monitor on for him.

So Wednesday morning she hadn't woken up by the time we needed to leave for school. I could tell she was about to get up because I could hear her starting to make noise. So I hurried and dropped the girls off and came home and she was just waking up when I got home. I got her up and changed the fullest diaper she's ever had (1st clue that she either didn't wake up or Dean didn't change her during the night.) Then she proceeded to suck down over 7 oz the fastest I've ever seen her take a bottle. Usually she takes between 4 and 5 oz. (2nd clue) So when Dean woke up I asked him when she got up during the night. She didn't!!!! He stayed up till 4:30 waiting for her and just couldn't stay awake any longer. She slept from about 10 to 8!!! Amazing!!! Of course she didn't repeat that last night, but still YAY!!! It's always great when they reach huge milestones like that. Hopefully it will start to become more of a habit! Then Dean might be able to go to sleep at a decent hour on his days off!

By the way, I'm so appreciative of his willingness to help out with Scarlett. I can tell that I feel so much better after this pregnancy then with the other two and I really think it's because he's helping me out so much more this time! I still feel like I get nothing done during the day (especially with all the time going between home and school) but I'm at least not a walking zombie from lack of sleep!!

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  1. JoannaAugust 27, 2009 at 8:47 PM

    Yay for Scarlett! And for you! At least you know she CAN do it, so chances are she'll start doing it more often! Good luck!

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