whoever coined the phrase “sleeping like a baby” obviously doesn’t have any kids. tomorrow matthew will be one month old, and yes i have been sleeping like a baby - not getting any decent sleep! matt has self-settling issues but at 8.30am today he settled on his own!!!! 
he woke up this morning crying, we co-slept last night because i was too tired to have to get up and feed him and do the whole wrapping-rocking-laying down the bassinet routine. anyway i had a pretty good sleep but when he woke up he just wouldn’t feed while we were lying down. so i fed him in the cradle hold and he was feeding pretty well.
at 7.50am he finished feeding and yawned so i wrapped him up, expecting a violent reaction but there wasn’t any so i thought i might as well follow that sleep group paper that the nurse gave me yesterday. so i left the room and surfed the net for a bit and at 8.12am came back to the room hoping he was already asleep. when i get back, sh*t! he’s got hiccups! so i sat quietly next to his bassinet, and was waiting for him to cry so i can try patting him to sleep. i didn’t want to look over his face just in case he decided he wanted to be cuddled. so i sat and waited and at 8.30am he is already asleep! i couldn’t believe it LOL 
well it’s already 8.45am and he’s still asleep. i’ve checked on him twice (sneaking in quietly of course) just to make sure i’m not imagining it and yes he is still asleep! i’m so happy hopefully this isn’t just a one-off thing hehe.
February 20th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
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February 20th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Thanks Leah!
Matt actually woke up at 9am LOL
but I am still proud of him for sleeping no his own hehe. He was a bit difficult today too, wanting to feed all the time. Anyway, I think the key for us getting some sleep at night is co-sleeping, although it means Butch will have to be in a different room!
February 20th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Kami rin co-sleeping. We all got some sleep that way. Whatever works, right?