And On The 102nd Day....

HE SLEPT!! As in ALL.NIGHT.LONG!! :) Whoop!! :)

Talk about happy campers.....that was Chris and I!! Brant just decided that he would go ahead and sleep through the night on Friday night...and we were more than onboard with that plan. I could not have asked for a better Memorial Day weekend present. Thank you little B! How about you keep this up and give your parents a chance to catch up on their sleep. How does that sound? :)

I think a couple of things helped with this transition...1) He hit the 10-12 lb "magical weight range" where a lot of kids start sleeping through the night. 2) We were able to get more food into him throughout the day...so he did not need to get up and eat around 3 am. He is still on a special preemie formula and he has increased from taking 24 oz a day to about 26-27 oz per day...so I think that helped out too. 3) Or maybe he just decided that he likes to sleep through the night, and he would rather sleep than wake up for a bottle. HA! :)

We all know that every kid is different.....but sometimes it is hard not to compare what the 2nd does to what the 1st did. It is all you have to go off of, right? :) Braden was sleeping through the night at 10 weeks, so that was before I even went back to work. Based on that, I felt pretty well rested by the time I was back in the work groove. This time has been a little bit different b.c Brant took about 4 extra weeks to give the "sleeping through the night" a try. But even if it took him until 14 weeks to learn, we will take it!! He was a preemie so he gets some leeway. HA! :)

A typical night is that we feed him around 7:30, swaddle him, and put him in his crib for the night between 8-9 pm. He will sleep until about 10:30 pm when we wake him up, and give him one last bottle before we head to bed. Then he will wake up about 3 am to eat one more time before sleeping in until later in the morning (7:30-ish). We have been doing this same schedule pretty much since we got home from the NICU. Well Saturday morning he just kept sleeping and woke up at about 6 am. He never got up for that 3 am bottle. NICE!! Then he did it again during the weekend, and he slept from his feeding at 11 pm until we woke him up at 7:30 am. I liked that for sure!! Yee haw! :)

We are just hoping this is not a fluke....and that he is well on his way to making that happen on a regular basis. Now if Chris and I can just get to bed at a reasonable hour then we will be on our way to a very restful night. We are hopeful! :) Come on Brant! :)