On this, Jackson's 12-week birthday, I want to shout from the rooftops "We made it!"
But I can't. I'm too tired.
Why? Because our little pipsqueak slept like a charm from about 6:30-10:00 last night and then decided to wake up at 10:18, 11:06, 12:30, 1:20, 2:08, 3:12 and 4:04. And I got up for the day at 5:30. At some point after an all-nighter like that you just have to say good riddance to the past six frustrating hours and look forward to the daytime.
It was so bad that Lucy left our room and slept on the living room couch all night. This morning Chad called her a traitor. He was right!
The optimist in me thinks Jackson was just giving us one last all-night hurrah before turning the corner for good. Because I have racked my brain for every single other possible explanation to why he wouldn't sleep for more than 45 minutes and absolutely nothing else makes sense.
Unless he was hungry. This child is a bottomless pit.
We went back to the doctor yesterday for another check up on his growth and he's plodding along. He's a superstar in height (24.5", so 75th percentile) but puny in the weight category (just 11 lb, 2 oz...or the 13th percentile). He may just be destined to be tall and skinny his whole life, but our doctor's orders for the next few weeks are to fatten Jackson up as much as we possibly can. After pumping him so full of milk this morning that he looked drunk, I think we are making real progress. Why? Because Jackson has been asleep since 9 a.m. - nearly three hours.
Wish I could say the same for his parents.
2 comments:
I'm sure you've already been warned, but don't let him nap too much during the day if he didn't sleep at night... It's a slippery slope down the path to day-night confusion!
Could also be a growth spurt, the start of teething (yes, Brendan had a tooth at 4 months!), or beginning to hit a milestone like rolling over. Yes this too shall pass...we just sleep-trained Ryan again in a big bed and he is back to sleeping like a champ!
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