I love this one with his bucket hat and swim trunks on...he's seems slightly annoyed, doesn't he?!
Anyways, so just as I was thinking about updating the blog saying that every person who ever told me that rice cereal helps a child sleep better at night was lying to me. It's all a bold-faced lie I tell you. (there is one exception--molly---who told me that it's not a guarentee. I chose to listen to the others who said it helped. Hey--I needed some sort of hope to hold on to, right?) Ryder still, even though we've been doing rice cereal every night for two weeks will still wake up 2 sometimes 3 times a night. stinker butt. BUT then (and it may be a fluke...but I hope not) last night I fed ryder and did his night time ritual of cereal, bath, nurse, bed. He was sleeping in his crib at 10pm. He slept until 530!!! then I fed him and I put him back down at 6am. I heard him chatting to himself for a little bit, but I fell back asleep. Then I woke up at 9am and went in there and he was already awake but was just staring at his little crib mirror. I LOVED it. So I'm sure you're thinking, wow, Carly got a GREAT night of solid sleep. Nope. Joe and I got into bed around 1045. My boobs woke me up a little after 3 because they were full. I pumped a little and tried to go back to bed around 345, but I was thinking he was going to wake up at any time to feed, so it was hard to fall back asleep. Then I finally fell asleep at some point and I woke up at 5 panicking because I thought Ryder MUST have been smothered otherwise there was no other reason I hadn't heard him yet. (thankfully, that wasn't the case). I guess I can't complain totally. I did sleep four hours straight before my boobies woke me up. Let's just hope this is not a one time only thing.
On one other side note, ryder is now doing every three weeks for physical therapy rather than every other. Progress!!! Have a great week everyone.
Cute pictures. He's such a chunk, I love it. I think his sleeping is going to get a lot better! (i mean, it can't get worse....or can it?) This might sound crazy, but I noticed around 5 months sometimes the earlier I put my boys to bed, the later they slept. Doesn't always work that way - trial and error. However, I can't tell you how good it is to have your nights back with your hubby and the baby (or babies in my case) sleeping by 8 PM. You'll get there soon enough. Then your mind will block all of this out and you'll want a second one :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't lie...these pictures just made my day!!!!!!!!!
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