yesterday was a pretty good day, matt was able to sleep during the day for periods of 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. at around 6.45pm he fed and then i tried to settle him but he wouldn’t have any of it. at around 8pm i gave up with the settling cos he seemed like he was hungry again so i fed him again, after feeding i tried to settle him for about half an hour and again nothing! i was thinking and dreading that my new settling method might not be working anymore, after only a day 
so anyway i got tired from settling matt so i got butch to carry him and try and rock him to sleep. at around 10pm he was still awake but quiet. we moved the bassinet from the lounge room to the bedroom and matt started fussing so i fed him again up until 11pm.
anyway i tried settling him again (i didn’t want to waste my efforts with the new method by rocking him to sleep) and finally at 11.20pm he slept. i had dinner at around 11.30 and then stayed up until around 12 and decided to go to sleep just in case matt wakes up to feed in a couple of hours. when i woke up butch was still awake so i thought maybe it was only around 2am, but when i looked at the clock it was already 4.30am!!! matt had been sleeping soundly since 11.20pm 
he woke up for a feed at 5.40am which meant for the first time ever, he slept for 6 hours and 20 minutes! after feeding i put him back in the bassinet and wrapped him (while still awake) at around 6.30. i haven’t tried to go back to sleep in case he needs settling, but it’s already 7am and he hasn’t made a fuss yet so fingers crossed he’s gone to sleep by himself i just checked on him and he has gone to sleep! yey!!
i’m really optimistic about this new settling method. i guess the only reason why matt wouldn’t settle last night was because he was cluster feeding and preparing himself for a good night’s rest. i hope tonight (and onwards) he’ll sleep like this at night, so that we can both get some rest i’ll just have to remember that if he won’t sleep in the early evening, then that probably means he wants to cluster feed.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
yey! that is definitely a milestone for matt. sana magtuloy-tuloy.
February 25th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
sana nga… the following night he woke up at 5.40 tapos kagabi 3am!
i hope he’s not taking a step backwards! although kahapon kasi twice siya nagnap nung time na magclusterfeed dapat siya, so baka dapat wag patulugin during that period hehe.