Last night, Little E, aged 13 weeks and 5 days, slept for 8.5 hours!!!
She had a "dream feed" (D gives her a bottle without waking her up) at 10:00pm and she was pretty unenthusiastic about it, drinking about 80ml instead of the usual 100ml and taking quite a while to do it. She has been doing tihs a bit lately, so we are hopeful that sometime soon she may not need the dream feed at all, and may sleep from 8:00 or so until morning. A 16 week old baby at our mother's group apparently does this, and I was very impressed when I heard about it, but now it is seeming like a not-so-unrealistic prospect.
At about 5:00am she was stirring, so I reached into the cot, gave her a pat and her dummy, expecting that it wouldn't work and we would be getting up for food in a few minutes. Instead we both went back to sleep for another 80 minutes or so. Now to figure out what the magic was last night, and to repeat it tonight!
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Postscript: and 9 hours last night! Seemingly the magic is a long sleep in the afternoon (about 2 hours), then staying awake for a long period in the evening (from about 5pm to 8pm). Then a bottle at 10pm, then sleep sleep sleep until morning!
Hooray!!! I was going to text you yesterday to see if the magic had reoccurred. What a superstar : )
Have to say that Eli must have whispered something into Henry's ear on Friday as yesterday he slept for over three hours in the afternoon and then was out like a light in the evening for another 12 hours. I LOVE sleep!!
Three cheers for our little people all round!
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