Weston went to sleep about 7:45. Nathan, in preparation for a long night, went to sleep at 9pm. I was pretty exhausted and knew if they were up in the middle of the night I would be laying in bed awake listening so I joined him.
11:01 I hear crying. Nudge Nathan and he gets up. Silently I pray "Lord please let this go well." I hear crying for a minute, then quite, then his bedroom door shut and Nathan walks in the room.... ("What?!") I figured it was because he was really tired.
2:36 I hear crying and roll over to see the time. Yikes...I doubt it will go well this time. Still have two and half hours before he's "allowed" to nurse. As Nathan gets out of bed I whisper, "Be patient." Again I hear crying for a minute, silence, and the door shuts. I check the monitor as Nathan walks in and Weston rolls to his side and isn't crying.
At 6am I suddenly wake up with a pain in my chest. For a second I wasn't sure what was happening until I really became conscious. Then realized... I'm having a "let down". My body isn't used to going all night without nursing so it's trying to release milk. I'm full and in a little pain, but certainly not waking a sleeping baby! After this I really couldn't go back to sleep but stayed in bed.
Nathan, Addison, and myself got out of bed around 6:45....Weston woke up just a little before 7:30!!
Nathan said the first time he went in there he acted like he didn't want him to pick him up and pushed his hands away. Then he let him and Nathan picked him up, patted his back, laid him back down, tucked him in and left. The second time he said that he was sitting in the crib and when Nathan walked in he scooted to the other end of the crib trying to get away. He picked him up, patted him, laid him down, tucked him in and left. Each trip was less than two minutes!
I'm giddy today. Simply excited because I never could have imagined it would go so well on night two! I'm thankful Nathan is helping me. I'm thankful that Weston has made it so easy on Nathan so that he will stick with it. I'm thankful that there is finally a light at the end of my sleepless tunnel!
I have always read that day/night 3 is the worst (for any changes) so just be prepared! (Except I think last night was probably night 3 for you so I hope it wasn't too bad!) I did want to tell you that you may be able to keep him from waking up during the night by not letting him sleep as much as he wants during the day for naps. When I wake up Kylie in the mornings and wake her up from her naps (as opposed to letting her sleep as late as she wants), she pretty much sleeps all night every night because she's just tired from not getting as much sleep during the day.
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