Neglecting my duties

My blogging duties, not my mothering duties. Although with as much time as I spend at work, one could argue …

In any case, rereading the June 24 post. Talk about indepedence, Soren is full time in his crib for every nap and for sleeping at night. He tolerated the bassinet in our bedroom for a little while, but then promptly decided that he had humored us enough. The last night in our room, he spent several minutes screaming bloody murder and when we finally put him in his crib, he rolled over and fell asleep.

Ever since then he’s been progressing toward the fabled “sleeping through the night.” There were three days in a row around the time of my sister’s wedding that he slept from about 9 pm to 6 am and we had to keep on checking if he was breathing. Since then, he’s had a few 3:30 am wakings, but for the most part if he wakes up for a last feeding at midnight, then he’ll sleep through til 6:30 or sometimes even 7:30 or 8:30. It’s pretty amazing.

The bad thing is that all this sleeping through the night means that he is ravenous during the day. I can no longer keep up with his milk consumption, so he eats about 12 oz while I’m at work, and I pump about 8. I’m too lazy to do the math as to when I’ll eventually run out, although I suppose it will all even out again when he starts solids.

I love my baby. Have I mentioned that?

~ by cuboyd on July 14, 2006.