It's been four nights now of me nursing Mister in my bed and sliding him over onto the crib mattress. He seems to settle really well, get comfy and go to sleep. His waking pattern has changed slightly, but this could be due to shorter or missed naps at daycare recently. He's ready to go do around 7:30pm, has me up around 11pm, 1am, 4am and sometimes once more at 6am. This last feeding is probably just a new waking time, not sure yet, but I feed him and keep him with me in my bed after that because we get up at 7am anyway.
I am getting tempted to put up a bed railing or even the crib bars we took off, and see how he reacts. He needs to get used to being moved after nursing and settling himself to sleep. I am worried about my back (recently strained) having to lift him over the railing, but I guess I just have to try it and see how it goes. We are having a friend come over tomorrow evening to babysit while we get a RARE evening out. So I think we will leave things as they are until Saturday night.
I am also getting anxious/starting to dread the thought of his night feedings when we are no longer co-sleeping. We have a rocking chair in his room, but that still means I will have to get out of bed and be really awake each time he's up. The thought of having to get out of my warm bed is disturbing. Why am I giving up the comfort and convenience of co-sleeping? I just have to hope and pray that once Mister is comfortable on his own in his crib and my bed is out of his room, that he will start to sleep longer stretches and wake me less during the night. If we can get him on his own, and I am not right there, he won't be able to smell me or feel me close, so maybe he won't think of nursing? Plus, there is always the option of my hubby taking a turn at trying to comfort Mister when he wakes; which we'll only do after Mister is comfortable and confident on his own for some time.
But so far, so good...and NO crying about sleeping on a different mattress than mommy!
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