Sleeping Update

The sleeping is going GREAT! Nights 3 and 4 were spent at my parents house - he took some coaxing but basically fell asleep by himself on the air mattress that he was sharing with Brandon and me.

Night 5 - We were at Brandon's mom's house and he fell asleep there. But when we got back I put him down at 10:15 and he slept until about midnight. Brandon went in and put him back down. THEN, I didn't hear ANYTHING until 4:45 AM!! I heard him whimpering so I got up to go check on him but by the time I got to his door, all was quiet. I waited a couple minutes and when I realized he was asleep I came back to bed. Same thing happened around 6:30, but he once again went back to sleep on his own. And then he slept in until 10:00 AM!! I couldn't believe it!

I hardly dared to think that he would sleep through the night 2 nights in a row. But, night 6 (last night) I put him down at about 9:00 (after Hayden was already in bed). I rocked him for a minute and then put him down in the crib (on his back!) while he looked up at me. Then I quietly left the room (with him watching me) and never heard a peep. He totally went to sleep by himself, no fuss or anything! Hayden NEVER did that... such a change! He did wake up again around 11:00  PM and I went in and rocked him just because I didn't want him to disturb Hayden with his crying. Then I went back to bed and he slept all night! I went in and got him around 7 AM and brought him to my bed just so I could nurse him before work because my chest was very full and very uncomfortable (normally he nurses a couple times a night, so my body is going to have to readjust and not make him milk in the middle of the night anymore).

Naps the past couple days have been great, too. We just put him in his crib and he goes right to sleep - no crying at all! It's amazing. Great way to start out the new year. Hopefully he keeps this up... I'm a little nervous to get my hopes up, but it is going well so far!