ohai! I'm 2 weeks old again!
This child. This lovely little darling baby, who has been known to sleep from 6-12 (TWELVE!) hours at night, decided last night that he would require a feeding every 3.5 to 4.5 hours. We put him down around 8 which has been our normal and then we rolled into bed around 10:30. Bruno up at 11:30 inconsolable! “No soothing necessary, folks, I’m freaking hungry!” So feed him I do. I must have fallen asleep after his second timer went off although I didn’t realize it until Hoagey pointed out that the time was now 1am. Woops.
At least he’s prolly good and full! Back to sleep almost immediately which figures because Hoagey did it (it’s so early, you can get lots of sleep before you have to get up so it’s cool!), and I figured that he would stay asleep at least until the 6am alarm but alas, he was up again for his usual 4am feed. We didn’t believe it and both took a turn at rocking him back to sleep which only worked for about 10 minutes total and it soon became apparent that this baby needed food! Again! So here we were. I decided that I might as well stay up this time so as not to feed him for an hour and a half again. He’s back down at 5:30. Hoagey gets up at 6am and is out of the house by 7:25. BRUNO UP AT 8! YAY! So I deduce from his furious sucking on the pacifier and subsequent spitting out of said pacifier followed by crying that he was indeed hungry aaaaaagggggaaaaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnnn!!!! I start to worry that perhaps I’ve dried up! Maybe he’s not getting enough! I don’t remember seeing a poopy diaper since 3pm! Ask and you shall receive, sista, cause as soon as we finished, he pooped. through. his sleeper. A fairly THICK FLEECE sleeper. Yah, he’s getting plenty.
The true tragedy in all of this is that at 8am I was so tired that I did not take him out of his swaddle blanket (the only swaddle blanket that fits him) and when he pooped through his thick fleece sleeper he also pooped on his swaddle blanket. This kid cannot sleep without his swaddle! Luckily his old one, sized for regular 9 week-olds, still works as long as only his arms are swaddled. Phew. So now the baby is back to sleep. Do I dare attempt a nap?
UPDATE! On Friday my mother reported that Bruno was VERY gassy and that night he slept for 9 hours. I figured this would stop on Sunday night. Bruno has a tendency to sleep through the night when we don’t have to get up early in the morning. But for the past 3 nights, Bruno has slept at least 8 hours and (ohmyfreakinggoshknockonwood) this morning I actually had to wake him up so I could feed him and take him to the babysitter. Holy Crap, RIGHT?! Cross your fingers, dear readers.
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