Mar. 14, 2006 - Up at 5am.
My baby decided to wake early this morning. Actually, she was wide awake at 4am, but I brought her into bed with me to try to get her back to sleep. Didn't work! She babbled and tried to move around so much that I finally gave up and went downstairs with her. I really didn't mind her getting up so early because she actually slept in her own bed from 8pm-4am! This is a huge milestone. I have been trying to get her to sleep for longer than 3 hours at a stretch and it's finally happening. She did wake up around 11pm, but I just went in, laid her back down, started her music and left. She went back to sleep. I've been battling her sleep problems until just last week I read that babies her age (7mth) are in a deep sleep for the first 2 hours they're asleep and then they enter the light sleep phase. This is when they begin to rouse and have to learn to put themselves back to sleep. I'm sure her sleep problems have been my fault because I have been going in and bringing her into my bed as soon as she fusses. (This was easier because I was so tired and she would go back to sleep in my bed.) However, now that I give her some time, she is going back to sleep. I knew this was what I needed to do, and you would think that with her being my 3rd baby I would have started it sooner. Oh, well--that's one problem with having kids spaced so far apart. You forget the little things that can make life easier!!!
