Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The best/worse night

So last night my mom saved me a completely sleepless night. The previous night I basically got zero sleep because Gavin had the snots. So he was fussy and snorting all night long. He wouldn't eat well at feedings, so needless to say he was up, A LOT. So yesterday, mom says, you go to bed early, I will stay up with Gavin out in the living room, give him a bottle and you can get a block of sleep. Sounds great! But Gavin was a PIA from about 4:30 to 9pm. He was fussing and crying basically the entire time, giving me about 10-15 minutes peace when he would fall asleep only to wake up screaming again. I fed him, changed him, burped him, rocked him–multiple times. These seems to only help a bit, and then he would start screaming again. Finally, I decided nothing was wrong, he just needed to go to sleep, so I applied the "5 S's" Swaddle, side, swinging, sucking and shushing. Worked like a charm and he passed right out in 5 minutes. I went to bed. At 2:30 I wake up. no baby in the room. I go out to the living room, and there is Gavin, still asleep and my poor mom still awake. Yeah, he slept 5 hours.
Oops got to run, Gavin is screaming. Will finish post later.

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