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My new paycheck?

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The 11th Annual Edelman Mother’s Day Salary Index reports moms are worth $841,900 a year since she engages in 17 separate jobs on a regular basis.

“Of course, no one can truly place a value on the love and affection that mothers give to their families,” said Edelman. “My Index is designed to help us appreciate them: Think of what you’d have to pay someone to be on duty 24/7 and complete 17 jobs.”

Edelman noted that the average multi-tasking mom routinely:

* raises children
* dispenses medication and nursing care
* assists with homework
* cooks meals
* attends meetings and functions
* provides transportation
* keeps house
* listens to and resolves family problems
* manages family finances
* cares for pets
* maintains family order and harmony
* keeps family on schedule

The total of the 17 average annual salaries in 2009 is $841,900, an increase of $39,210 over last year.

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The occupations which compose the Annual Mother’s Day Index and their corresponding median annual salaries are:
a. Animal Caretaker $21,180
b. Chef $40,700
c. Computer Systems Analyst $75,890
d. Financial Manager $106,200
e. Food/Beverage Service Worker $20,660
f. General Office Clerk $25,960
g. Registered Nurse $62,480
h. Management Analyst $80,460
i. Child Care Worker $19,670
j. Housekeeper $19,550
k. Psychologist $83,610
l. Bus Driver $34,150
m. Elementary School Principal $82,120
n. Dietitian/Nutritionist $50,030
o. Property Manager $53,530
p. Social Worker $41,920
q. Recreation Worker $23,790
TOTAL $841,900

No more swaddling…?!

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So, we’ve been swaddling Owen for bed at night. The practice was highly recommended, and we got used to it and enjoyed mixed results—he seemed to sleep well enough but was very Houdini-esqe and managed to escape frequently. Of course, the grandparents assumed this to mean he didn’t like being swaddled and was struggling to escape…and didn’t want us to swaddle him. And we just trusted the professionals and assumed he was a very wiggly baby and continued to swaddle him. (We did try NOT swaddling him a time or two and it didn’t seem to make any difference.)

So fast forward to Gramma Jean taking a night shift and not being too successful applying the swaddle…so I said we could NOT swaddle him if SHE chose because she would have to deal with the repercussions if he didn’t sleep well…and we could always go back to swaddling. So we didn’t swaddle…and we both got a big laugh out of his sleeping position (viewed from the monitor):

This was on Thursday, May 7.

Since then, we have continued…and for the most part I think it’s okay. But we we think it’s harder for him to go down—even if he seems TOTALLY out, as soon as we put him down, his arms shoot up and he flails around. I think when he was wrapped, he couldn’t tell as much that we were letting him go and setting him down. Secondarily, his little unwrapped hands get SO cold at night (the rest of him is warm and the room temp is at the recommended 68°-72° so don’t worry).

So we are still deciding what we’re doing, LOL.

A better night for both of us…

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So after my day starting at 2:30am, I was in bed at 8 while Tom was putting Owen to bed. Turns out he went down about 8:15, had a brief fit about 8:30-9 (due to a burp that didn’t come out previously), and then slept until about 3:30!! Then he went back down about 4:15 and slept until 6:15—at which point he was just chattering away in his crib so I got up to pump so I could give him a bottle, but he was out again before I was done! He slept another half hour after that. I feel amazingly awake today, but still with an undercurrent of exhaustion. 🙂

So, whether the good night was due to him not really napping or the fact that he got some fresh air (we went for a walk around the park)…I’ll take it!

Advice from Facebook Friends

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I posted my status as REALLY REALLY wish Owen would just take a freakin’ nap already. He’s soooo cranky. and received these responses:

Dayna C.—Put him to bed, and let him bawl. He’ll go to sleep, and be just fine. Tough love, mama, tough love!!

Jennifer M.—I agree with Dayna. He will learn to self-comfort and it will make a HUGE difference in his sleep habits, and yours:)
FYI- babies who don’t need much sleep are more intelligent. LOL

Me—Well, we just started real naps—putting him in the crib or pack-and-play (vs. letting him sleep on us or sit in his bouncy chair) so we want to give that a week or so first, before letting him cry. Besides the fact that it KILLS me to hear him cry (of course).

Robin W.—Man, I remember having that problem as well. I spent many afternoons just driving in the car while he slept. I didn’t get anything done, but I kept most of my sanity. Best of luck, Jen. Hope he starts taking some good naps soon.

More nightly frustration.

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I am starting to think I am not cut out for being a parent [of a non-sleepy baby]. The no-sleep thing is enough to make me lose my mind. And I’m not even getting up every 2 hours anymore…

Last night he slept for a five-hour stretch, which has been about his usual lately (gone are the days of the 6-8 hour nights—what the hell happened, I have no idea). He usually goes back down for another 3 hours or so, but last night he decided he wasn’t tired, and pretty much just laid in his bed and chattered for a few hours—but it was enough to keep me up (coupled with hubby’s snoring) and then he wanted to eat again, so the process started again, but by then it was light and he obviously wasn’t sleeping anymore…

It’s just SO frustrating. And I know it will be over soon enough…but in the meantime, I feel like a horrible parent for getting so frustrated over it. Especially when he’s just being cute and smiling and cooing at me. I tell him “How dare you be so damn cute to me when I am mad at you for not sleeping!” 😛

So I am one exhausted mom this morning—I’ve been up since 2:30. 🙁

A great first Mother’s Day!

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Technically my day started at 4am when I got up to feed the boy, but I’d say my day really started when Tom took the boy so I could sleep in—which I did until about 8:30! 😀

Then Tom made me a breakfast of scrambled eggs with sausage and cheese, and said he was going to head to Lowe’s to get planting soil and more basil—and he was going to plant everything for me! The boy’s eating and napping schedule changed that slightly, and we ALL ended up going out for errands. We talked about maybe going somewhere for lunch, but figured that since it was Mother’s Day, every place was going to be packed—so we thought we’d just play it by ear.

On the way to Lowe’s, I remembered that we had to stop by Michael’s to check on our frame job (two weeks ago we finally took in our canvas photo from the cruise and apparently the frame was messed up, and we either had to pick another frame or wait for the frame to come off of backorder).

After we took care of that, we were walking back to the car and I happened to notice across the parking lot that Fuji Japanese Buffet was open. What’s Fuji Japanese Buffet you ask? An all-you-can-eat sushi and Asian food buffet! We have talked about going there before but have just never made it. So over we went! (So the boy had his second restaurant outing in as many days!)

And WOW was it yummy! They had a Mother’s Day special running which was a few dollars more per person than their normal price, but they had more specialty items as well. (We said we’ll have to go again to see what a normal service includes.) I stuffed myself silly on sushi—but only managed to eat two plates full! I still got my money’s worth, though, so it was all good!

Then it was off to Lowe’s where we picked up the gardening stuff we needed, and then it was back home—just in time because Owen was ready to eat.

It turns out Tom didn’t do the planting because it is supposed to frost tonight—so that will come tomorrow. But I did get in a nap!!! YAY!!! And then Tom watched the boy so I was able to make dinner! (He apologized for me having to make dinner but I was more than happy to do it since I hardly even have the time or energy to do it anymore!)

So it’s been a WONDERFUL first mother’s day!!!

Owen’s first restaurant!

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We wanted to go out to eat with mom (Gramma Jean) before she left, so it was going to be Owen’s first meal out! I know, I know…we could have taken him out before this, but I was just always afraid it was going to end badly…yes, I’m a wussy first-time parent!

But it went very well—he slept almost the entire time, and we had a nice meal to boot!

He was still sleeping (or awake but calm!) when we left, so we decided to go grocery shopping as well (to show mom one of the great stores around here—Nino Salvaggios). He did well through that, too…good boy!

How? Why? The stinker!

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So I get up for a middle-of-the-night feeding, and he scarfs down like 5 ounces and he’s out. OUT.

I still attempt burping, for up to 10 minutes sometimes, and even burp standing up and jiggling a little in hopes of getting a burp so I can put him down.

But I get nothing.

So I figure he’s out for the count—and I gently lay him in the crib. And before I can even step back from the crib—like within 5 seconds—he has spit up!

EGADS.

So then I have to start the process over, because he’s now awake again.

Stinker!

Great sleep!

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So the first night Lin took duty, Owen slept for about 7 hours (for the first stretch anyway)!! YAY OWEN!

The next night we were a bit more worried, because he took a THREE HOUR NAP from about 6p-9p!!!! I gave him a bottle at 9:15 and he was out cold by 9:45—totally off his normal schedule—so it was either going to be very bad or very good.

I was in the basement again, so didn’t find out until the next morning that…Owen slept for 7.5 hours!!! YAY OWEN!

And then last night, when I was back on duty, I was SURE that Owen would keep me up all night…but he didn’t! He slept for EIGHT HOURS!

Of course *I* didn’t sleep for eight hours because 1) I got up to pee three times and 2) I was sleeping more lightly, sure that he was going to wake up at any moment. When I did get up to feed him, he wasn’t even really awake awake, but he had been making noise for a little bit, and I figured I might as well go in and feed him so *I* could get back to sleep. Unfortunately, he only slept an hour afterwards, so we were both up at 6:30.

But hopefully this night trend will continue!!!

Nursery pics–finally!

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We weren’t going to decorate the nursery at all because I just didn’t see the need. Owen won’t know any different, and we didn’t want to spend any money on anything special.

But then I saw monkey decals at Babies R Us. And I had to have them! They are SOOOOO cute!! And in a neat twist, the crib bumper that a good friend (thanks, Katie!) sent us matched the dots perfectly (as you can see in the first picture)!!

A close-up of the mommy, baby, and daddy monkey! SOOOO CUTE!!!

See, this is more like it.

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So Owen didn’t nap much today…and Lin had offered to take the nightly duties…so when 7:00 rolled around, I suggested she try putting him down.

Then I went downstairs to not listen, LOL, and read a magazine.

I went up at 8 or so to check (i.e. listen at the door) and to my surprise, Lin was already done and reading a book!

She said he ate the whole 6oz bottle and didn’t even burp and didn’t even move or make a peep when she set him down. He was out COLD.

YAY!

So now we’re both wondering just how long he will sleep.

And hopefully I won’t find out until tomorrow morning at a decent hour, since I am sleeping in the basement to try and avoid hearing him at all so I can get a decent night’s sleep.

Stay tuned.

FRUSTRATION!

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So the grandparents got here about 6:30 and were of course sad when 7:30 rolled around and it was Owen’s bedtime…but I wanted to keep to our sorta-schedule.

So we went upstairs and he ate like he normally does and burped like he normally does and fell asleep on me like he normally does and woke up and fussed a little when I layed him in his crib like he normally does…

But then…he was awake. And I mean WIDE awake. Like eyes wide open and legs kicking and totally squirming wide awake.

For two hours. ❗

(Well, two hours total including feeding.) It normally takes 45 minutes to an hour, so I was losing my mind and getting VERY frustrated as it approached the 2-hour mark. I mean, nothing was out of the ordinary. He should have been going to sleep the same as always.

Except he wasn’t. :no:

So I brought him back down and jokingly thrust him at them and said “You take him, I’m done!” Then I went up to bed and promptly fell asleep.

I felt bad for getting frustrated with him…I mean, he’s really a good baby and he just happened to not be tired (it happens to all of us, right?) but…I’m a new mom. Cut me some slack—I get used to how things work and get thrown when things suddenly change for no apparent good reason. 😐

That said, I am sure it probably wouldn’t have been so bad had I not been so exhausted from the previous night (morning?)—remember, I was up at 2am and only got about a 2-hour nap! The last thing I needed was a kid who refused to go to sleep!

So they kept him up and (as I found out the next morning) Lin put him to bed…at 1am!!!!! The little bugger stayed up another three or so hours!!!! 88| Of course, I had no idea what time he went down, so when I heard him squawking at about 4:30am, I got up to feed him. So he had only slept about 3.5 hours!!!

WHAT ON EARTH WAS GOING ON? I wondered. But who knows with babies.

2am

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It is currently 4:15am as I write this.

Yes, 4:15. >:XX

Owen decided he was hungry at about 2am, which meant I was up until just after 3am.

And then I had to pump, which I did in semi-darkness to stay sleepy.

But then I wasn’t really tired, so my mind wandered to some things I needed to remember to do today, so I turned on my phone and emailed myself some reminders. I thought that would be enough and my mind would be clear so I could fall asleep.

Then Bella decided to puke, so I got up to clean that…because the last thing I want to do in the morning is step in wet cat puke unexpectedly.

And then since I was up, I thought “Well, I will just go downstairs real quick and grab a protein shake since I am suddenly hungry.” (This often happens after I get up with the kid, although the need for sleep usually outweighs the need for sustenance.)

So I was doing everything in the dark to try and keep me sedate, so I didn’t really wake up too much.

And once I was downstairs, Bella threw up again. Which, obviously, necessitated turning on lights to clean it up.

So now I was really quite fully awake.

>:XX

So decided to check my email and do a few things I had been thinking about (that I didn’t email myself reminders for).

And now it’s 4:15. Well, 4:20 since I’ve been typing steadily for five minutes.

I really do need to try and get back to bed because Owen will surely be crying for me about 6 or 6:30 if the past few days have been any indicator.

At least Grandpa Mike and Grandma Linda will be here later this afternoon and I might be able to catch a nap…

My morning (and night)!

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Here is what Owen looked like this morning when I went in to check on him! Obviously I didn’t swaddle him tight enough during his 5am feeding/diaper change! So cute!

And then this is what happened the next time I went in, when I heard him making noise…just listen to the noise when he sucks his fingers!

And then this is what we looked like after mom had her shower and Owen was dressed (Go State!)!

And of course he was totally adorable this morning, because he was a total PITA at 4am when I got up to feed him. Fussed and squawked and fought me every step of the way when I tried to lay him down again. Ugh.

But the good thing? He slept about 7.5 hours. ❗

But the bad thing? He went down EARLY—at 8:30!—and we weren’t tired at all, so we didn’t go to bed until almost 10:30…so I really only got about 5 hours of sleep. |-|

But wait. I didn’t even get that much, because we had the windows open trying to cool down the house (since it got to 80° yesterday) and it started blowing so fiercely about 1:30am that it woke me up and kept me up (along with hearing Little Mr. Noisemaker down the hall in his room—we left his door open and opened his window to cool it off, since it was 78° in there when we put him to bed…plus having his door open let the noise travel much easier).

Then I started worrying that maybe it was too cool in his room or it was too noisy with the window open—and maybe he was making noise because he really was hungry (he had been sleeping 5.5 hours at that point, after all)—so after tossing and turning for 20 minutes thinking about it, I finally got up and shut his window. Oh, and he had fallen asleep again so he really wasn’t hungry.

Of course, then I probably didn’t fall asleep for another half hour. And then guess who wanted to eat at 4am? And then wouldn’t go down? And then finally went down about 5am? And then guess who was up bright and early, totally wide awake and cooing away at 6:30am??

More Facebook Updates

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  • Jennifer Hudson loves all her Tivo friends sooooooooo much!
  • Jennifer Hudson hates that it’s impossible to cut a baby’s nails. What cruel joke is that?
  • Jennifer Hudson wishes Owen would just nap already. He’s tired, I can tell.
  • Jennifer Hudson hates hates hates online “coupon printers” because if you’re not connected to a printer (i.e. laptop) you can’t print to pdf. GRRRR.
  • Jennifer Hudson isn’t sure why her scanner thinks a newspaper clipping is a color document. /confused
  • Jennifer Hudson is on her third shirt of the day and it’s only 11am.
  • Jennifer Hudson is prepping to give Owen a bath by herself. I am not good at that alone part yet.
  • Jennifer Hudson says Facebook is irritating me. I keep getting emails about applications I have specifically said NO EMAILS from.
  • Jennifer Hudson is attempting to watch Back to the Future 3—simply to complete the trilogy.
  • Jennifer Hudson says whoops, my sneeze just woke up the boy AND surprised the cat right off my lap.
  • Jennifer Hudson just fast forwarded through the rest of Rachel Getting Married. Oh well.
  • Jennifer Hudson misses her 21″ widescreen monitor since she’s on the laptop 99.95% of the time.
  • Jennifer Hudson is hoping Owen has a better day today—he was Mr. Crankpot yesterday.
  • Jennifer Hudson has the beginnings of a chocolate headache. /damn that easter candy
  • Jennifer Hudson knows she should keep the babes up, but she is enjoying getting some stuff done around the house.

Typical bedtime and nighttime routine

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So, for those interested, this is what it takes to take care of Owen during the night. Well, starting at bedtime, actually.

Anywhere from 8 to 9pm he gets his last bottle. It’s six ounces of 100% formula, with the hopes that it will make him sleep as long as possible (since formula is harder to digest, it should “stay with him” longer). This bottle is given in his room in the dark and quiet. We no longer even use the white noise (rainfall) alarm clock because I read that after a few months, it can actually start to be detrimental to their hearing (or something along those lines, I’d have to look it up again). We let him eat as long as he wants, which is usually a good 4oz, at which point he gets burped, then swaddled, then he usually eats the rest.

The fun part comes when trying to actually put him in his bed to sleep. I would say that a majority of the time (six nights a week) it doesn’t just happen. For example, last night, after the feeding and burping and swaddling, he was OUT. I mean OUT. I had patted his back trying to get a burp for almost 15 minutes and nothing. So I gingerly get up and lay him in the crib and…his eyes fly open, he’s wide awake, and starts fussing. |-|

I give it a minute to see if it’s just a startle reflex, but no—he really seems to need attention. I pick him up and…BURP! Okay, cool. So I try to get another burp for a while longer, and sense it’s not coming, so I get him settled again, with rocking and patting and swaying, then put him down again and—eyes come open, wide awake, fussing. Are you sensing a pattern here? Again, I give it a moment and no, he’s not settling down. So I pick him up again and get another burp. Egads.

Sometimes after one of these burps, he wants to eat again, so we give him whatever was left from his initial bottle. At this point, he usually falls asleep while eating (if he even eats anything) and then we can put him down.

I know it doesn’t sound that bad, but it is frustrating and does get tiring. Especially when I know I will be up in about five hours to go through the entire process again.

Oh yes, you read right. About five hours. We had a good stretch of time where he was sleeping 6-7 or even 7.5 hours a night. Not anymore. Now it averages 5-5.5—which, yes, I know is still good, but is hard to get used to after those WONDERFUL 7-7.5 hour nights.

So, about 3:30am or so, I get to go through this entire routine again. Except that this time, he will only sleep another 2-3 hours. Again, not terrible, except I don’t get another 2-3 hours sleep, because by the time I get back to bed, Tom’s alarm is going off (and off…and off…and off) and I have usually been up for an hour or more by that time (45+ minutes of feeding and whatnot, plus the additional time before I got up when I was listening to the little noisemaker to determine if I need to get up or not) so I might get another 1-2 hours.

And what usually happens when I am getting frustrated? He smiles at me and I just melt. 🙂

ARGH!!!!!

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Sometimes, you just want to scream. Mostly when a bunch of little things irritate you within a short period of time.

Like today.

  • It was raining, which was a pain in the butt for running errands with the boy. Normally no big deal, but it was the start of things.
  • The sections of couch will NOT stay in place, and I am constantly moving them back where they should be. We thought the carpet piece would help, but it doesn’t. Again, this is not a big deal, but it happens day after day after day after day after day…
  • Things are constantly falling in between the sections—today, it was my cell phone (twice) which I try to keep near me at all times. Sometimes I put it in the basket (which houses most of my day-to-day essentials) but I had just set it down because Tom had called.
  • Charlie, my lover lap kitty, wanted attention at the same time I was feeding Owen, and she would not leave me alone.
  • Of course, when I say “feeding Owen” I mean ATTEMPTING to feed Owen, because he was being supremely fussy and wiggly and although he was hungry (he was giving me the snorting cry) he would not settle down enough to actually eat.
  • I decided to try and watch a Netflix movie that has been sitting here for over a week—and normally it’s no big deal to watch something on TV. I mean, I watch TV on a daily basis with the kid awake and/or feeding him or whatnot. But not today, apparently. After having to rewind the movie three times in the first five minutes…I gave up.
  • Oh, and I have kept forgetting to reprogram the remote, so when you hit “watch DVD” everything changes correctly EXCEPT the receiver, which doesn’t get the correct sound input…normally not a big deal, except I had JUST sat down to feed the boy, and he was being cranky and the cat was nudging me for attention and I had just dropped my phone between the couch sections…so I got up (keeping the bottle in his mouth—a feat in itself!) and fixed the sound, got myself reseated on the couch, and then noticed…
  • I had dropped both burp cloths AND the boppy (both of which I need during feeding).
  • In the meantime, Owen has cranked it up two notches and was SCREAMING but REFUSING to eat.
  • And on top of all this, I have apparently forgotten how to deal with a period and I will leave it at that.

ARRRRRGH!!!!!!

So I put the boy in his crib (well, pack-and-play), gave him a pacifier, turned his mobile on…and that seemed to be the answer.

In the resulting quiet, I was able to clean up the kitchen a bit (including put away most of my Target bags from this morning), change the laundry, and just sit and enjoy the silence.

And I just realized I could have been watching the movie this whole time. |-|

A Weekend of Firsts

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There were a lot of firsts for Owen this past weekend…

First (hee!) was his first long car ride—three hours north to Gramma Jean’s for his Grayling baby shower! (We tried to have it before he was born, but time just got away from us, plus it was winter…and we thought people would like to actually see him instead of just seeing me pregnant!)

Second, daddy took care of Owen during the night!! Tom and I slept in different rooms (it’s just very hard for us to both sleep in a double bed when we’re used to a king bed)…so one of us got Owen and one of us got Maggie. Tom was generous and took Owen, since he could sleep in! YAY!

Third, Owen got his first sitting-in-water bath (instead of just being soaped up and rinsed off):

Fourth, Owen had pictures taken outside! With ALL his grandparents! And his Grantie Marge (the name we came up with for Marge, since we couldn’t decide between Grandma Marge and Auntie Marge!)!! And his parents, of course. Since everyone was there for the shower—and it was SUCH a gorgeous day out—we decided (well, I strongly suggested) that we should take pictures outside!!

Grantie Marge Len, Grandma Marsha Hudson, Jen, Owen, Tom, Grandma Linda and Grandpa Mike Smith, Grandpa David and Gramma Jean Schwalm

Fifth, gramma Jean took care of Owen during the night!! I innocently asked if she wanted to and she said sure (that she could nap Sunday)!! OMG! YAY! So we moved the pack-and-play in there (where there was more room anyway :P) and mom and dad both had the chance for a good night’s sleep! Gramma confirmed the next morning that Owen is a little chatterbox all night long…well, not chatterbox so much maybe as a noisebox. 😀

And sixth, after a few weeks of maybe only pooping once every few days, Owen pooped THREE TIMES today! 88|

I had a first, too…after almost a glorious year of no periods (minus about the four weeks of post-delivery bleeding), my period started this morning. XX( Technically I should have been expecting it at any time, even though the books say if you are breastfeeding, it might be a LONG time before you got your period back… but I had just gotten SO used to not having it that it was a big surprise.

Last night…

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Owen fell asleep about 9:30 and got up at…well, technically he didn’t get up. But he was making lots of noises in there that were keeping me up from about 4am…so when Tom’s alarm went off at 4:30, I decided it was time to go feed the boy. More of a preemptive feeding so he didn’t get to his snorting “I’m hungry” cry.

Unfortunately, Owen wasn’t really into it, and only ate about 2 ounces in 30 minutes—when he’s really hungry, he can finish a 6 ounce bottle in half that time! So, at about 5:15 I put him back down and he fell asleep again until about 7:15! (Unfortunately, I was wide awake, so I’ve been up since 4:30.)

BUT YAY OWEN! Let’s keep this up!!

7.5 hours!

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So Owen decided yesterday to take his regular naps…and of course, compared to the day before when he took none, it seemed like he was taking even more naps than normal! So we were worried that I would be up at all hours.

But I wasn’t!

Tom put him down and he was out by about 9:30. I woke up at 4am and he wasn’t up yet! I did turn on the video monitor to make sure he was still breathing :>> and then went back to sleep.

I got up a little before 5 when Tom’s alarm went off, and I pumped while Tom went in to get Owen (because by that time he was up and hungry). Then Tom was off to work, and Owen was back down by 5:30…and he slept until 8!!! (Of course, I went back to sleep, too! I had debated staying up, but figured I deserved more sleep after two months of sleepless nights.)

Knock on wood, I hope this lasts…

No naps = a good night!

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The boy didn’t take any naps yesterday—well, none more than 10 minutes and then he only did that maybe twice. So, he was getting very sleepy about 7:30 so Tom started to feed him his bottle and he was OUT.

Of course, as usual, he woke up for a bit after the bottle—spitting up, not wanting to eat, totally wide awake—so Tom brought him into our room. After about 15 minutes with us just hanging out, Tom decided to try to feed him the rest of his bottle…and he was completely out before he could even eat an ounce.

Then, he slept…6.5 hours!!! When I got up at 3am with him, he quickly ate his 6oz bottle and was OUT again…and then slept another 3 hours!!

I guess nights work better when he stays up all day! Now, it will be interesting to see if the same thing happens today…on it’s own (or if I have to try to keep him up).