Sleep Realized

I'd like to say that today is a landmark day, but the truth is that he's been sleeping through the night occasionally for two weeks or so - I just didn't really think of it that way. According to that book I mentioned earlier, we've been feeding Jack on 4 hour intervals - 8 AM, 12 PM, 4 PM, and 8 PM. It almost immediately removed one night time feeding. If I remember right, he would usually eat 3 times a night before that. Then he started skipping his first night feeding, which would have been around 12 or 1. So after a week or so of the new schedule, he would wake up around 3 to eat, and then around 5:30...and he'd want to eat again around 7 AM, so getting him to wait until 8 was a chore, hence his lament pictured a few weeks ago. But that didn't last long. Now he sometimes wakes up around 1 or 2, but it seems to be less that he's hungry and more that he just needs to be picked up for a few minutes. More often he sleeps right through to 5:30 or 6 AM. I used to think of that as a failure - that he wasn't sleeping through the night unless he slept until his next feeding at 8 AM.

Last night he slept from 9 PM to 6:30 AM. I'm calling that a success, and as far as I'm concerned, this is first official night of complete uninterrupted sleep. So, at two months and 6 days, he slept through the night. I didn't bother trying to put him back to sleep. Instead, I gave him 2 ounces of formula, and sat with him until his 8 AM feeding. He was all smiles and lots of cooing. In fact, I think he said "I let you get a full night sleep, Dad. You're welcome."