Sleep

:::knocks on wood:::

Just thought I should get that out of the way early so I don't jinx anything by writing what I'm about to write. LOL!

Avi is a really good night-time sleeper. Her first two weeks she slept in 3-4hr chunks at night, rarely she would wake up after only 2 hrs from her last feeding. At about 2 weeks old it increased to 4-6hr stretches. And since she was 3 weeks old she's been sleeping 7-8hrs in a row at night, wakes up for a quick feeding, and then sleeps another 3hrs! We're starting to get a little routine down now, too. She typically cluster feeds in the evening, and then we give her a bath around 9pm, lotion, jammies and feed her again and then she's out by 10 or 10:30 until 5 or 6am!! I know this isn't typical for newborns, so I consider us very lucky! I also know she could mix it up on us at any point, so it might not last...

She's been kinda cranky the past few nights starting around 6pm, so tonight I decided to try putting her to bed earlier. I fed her at 7pm, bath at 7:30 followed by lotion and jammies and then fed her again and she zonked out and was in her swing by 8pm (she's been a swing sleeper since we brought her home...it's working for now so we're not messing with it for a couple more weeks!). I'm thinking she may have just been over-tired the past few nights (thus the fussy evenings) and needs the extra few hours of sleep, but I guess we'll see how tonight goes! She hasn't been sleeping/napping well during the day unless I'm out running errands. Driving puts her to sleep. :-)

All in all, we've been very lucky with her sleep patterns, and I've been getting about 8hrs a night...I sleep about 6hrs during her first stretch and then another couple hours when she goes back to sleep. And I haven't needed any naps during the day. I don't know what I'm going to do when I go back to work, though! I'll probably just be a zombie, lol! December 13th just needs to stay FAR far away...

Speaking of sleep, it's almost 9:30pm so I'd better go to bed in case she decides to wake up early because I put her to bed early.

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