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Jan. 5th, 2006 09:28 amAt 3:30am, I crept up the attic stairs, heart pounding, to see whether Alex was dead.
She wasn't. She was merely sleeping through the night.
Technically, "sleeping through the night" is defined as five hours of consecutive sleep. Alex has done that tons of times - every night, even, if you don't count the occasional brief awakening when she needs to be patted and have her pacifier popped back in. But the five-hour stretch usually occurs between 7pm and midnight. Then, typically, she'll want to eat around 12 or 1, and she might be up briefly another time or two between then and morning.
Last night, I put her to bed at 7:15pm. She eventually woke at 5am. In between, there were three occasions when she cried for 10-15 seconds and then resettled herself without help. Ten hours of sleep! She wasn't even especially hungry at 5 - just awake. Michael took her downstairs and they played for an hour, and then she sucked down a bottle and crashed for a 45-minute nap.
Ten hours of consecutive sleep! Please, please let her make a habit of it.
She wasn't. She was merely sleeping through the night.
Technically, "sleeping through the night" is defined as five hours of consecutive sleep. Alex has done that tons of times - every night, even, if you don't count the occasional brief awakening when she needs to be patted and have her pacifier popped back in. But the five-hour stretch usually occurs between 7pm and midnight. Then, typically, she'll want to eat around 12 or 1, and she might be up briefly another time or two between then and morning.
Last night, I put her to bed at 7:15pm. She eventually woke at 5am. In between, there were three occasions when she cried for 10-15 seconds and then resettled herself without help. Ten hours of sleep! She wasn't even especially hungry at 5 - just awake. Michael took her downstairs and they played for an hour, and then she sucked down a bottle and crashed for a 45-minute nap.
Ten hours of consecutive sleep! Please, please let her make a habit of it.
