The big thing on most parent’s mind when they have a newborn is when will they sleep through the night. Some parent’s are lucky and their child sleeps through the night early. Others, not so much and their child doesn’t sleep through the night until they are much older. I am hoping for an inbetween. I am ok that he isn’t sleeping through the night because he has a great schedule right now and it is workable for me. I feed him before I go to bed and then I still have to wake up twice before we get up for the day. It works for us. So this threw me off guard when Edward slept through the night.
On September 10, we put him down like normal and he didn’t fuss or wake up to eat before I went to bed like he normally does. I just assumed he would wake up about an hour after I went to bed and was prepared for that since I didn’t want to wake him. He didn’t end up waking up to eat at all until around 6am. So he slept from 8pm-6am. This should have been great for me except he wasn’t a quiet sleeper. All through the night, he would fuss and start to stretch like he was going to wake up so I would wake up and prepare to feed him and then look over and he had gone back to sleep. He did it about once every 90 minutes all night. It made me even more tired than I was with our old schedule and I was so engorged that I leaked through everything and I couldn’t get the pump attached properly, so that was no help. I was full all day. They seemed to fill up just as fast as Edward was draining them. He ate so much more often during the day after sleeping through the night. I was basically planted on the couch.
The next night, he slept through the night again. I was prepared this time though. I pumped half an hour before I went to bed so that I wouldn’t be as engorged the next day. Then, he also didn’t fuss as much through the night so I was able to sleep and woke up refreshed remembering how nice it was to get a good night’s sleep.
Unfortunately, those were the only two days of sleeping through the night. He is back to waking up every two hours during the night. I am ready for him to be back on the schedule we had. We will see how he does and when he decides to sleep through again.
I’m doubting anything tonight as we are having a thunderstorm full of thunder, lightning and rain. Edward isn’t to happy with it and made his naps only half an hour today while waking up crying after the thunder.