Tabby has improved her sleeping habits over the last few days.
She has started to fall asleep for the night around 8.30pm after cluster feeding and suffering colicky crying for a couple of hours.
The other night for the first time she slept for 7 hours straight and for the 2 subsequent nights she's slept 6 and a half hours. She will then wake up for a feed and go back to sleep until 7.30am....... which isn't half bad. That's much better than Harry did!
The issues I still have with her though are that she will only go to sleep while nursing, and she will only be put down in bed if she's already zonk'd on me. Then when she wakes for her 3.30am or whenever it is feed, she will only go back to sleep on Gareth and she will only sleep th erest of the night if she stays on Gareth. The problem with the latter stretch is that she tends to really wake up for the night feed and it's hard to get her to go back off. When she does go back off she's a bit squirmy and windy and requires alot of patting and such, so she just can't go back to sleep if she's in her crib.
There are worse problems to have I suppose.
What I need to learn now is to go to bed earlier and then I'll get more sleep too! But it is really nice having our evenings to ourselves (with the exception of Dylan who is up far too late during the summer!)
Posted by katie at August 20, 2007 04:41 PM