For those who know me, I am Miss Sleeping Beauty. I require a minimum of at least 8 hours of rest a day. Sometimes I can even go on 12 hours stretches (esp at the beginning of school). Ever since the birth of baby R, I've not slept for more than 4 hours in a row. This is because of the baby's needs to be fed and diapers to be changed once or twice a night. For the past 7 months or so this has been the case thus it has somewhat become a habit to wake. At times I'll wake and just stay awake to wait to hear the baby's cry before picking him up from the cot. Sometimes after he feeds and changes diaper, he decides to want to play with mummy for an hour or two before falling back asleep. With hubby being away on a trip for 7 weeks, it's been just me on night duty every night.
Last night (4th July 2011), I put baby R through his usual routine. 7pm shower, 240ml milk then sleep by about 815pm. I then headed to watch my 9pm show downstairs before having a chit chat with Papa on whatsapp before dropping off to sleep at about 1130pm. I woke a few times in the night to play the music which R is used to listening to sleep but I when I finally really woke to look at the clock it was about 520am and I was quite surprise that R has not made any noise to drink milk. I did hear shuffling here and there from time to time in his cot but he managed to soothe himself back to sleep. For once the managed to sleep for about 10hrs without a feed. I hope this is the start of him sleeping through the night. If so it will be just... PURRRFECT!!! I'm only hoping... though I'm well prepared if it doesn't happen.
On another happy note, 10 days till Hubby comes home!
♥
Mummy of Baby R
