Parker Week 32 – He Slept!!!
August 12, 2009
A few nights ago I thought my baby might never sleep again. He slept three hours that night, and they were not consecutive. I’m not sure how I made it through work without falling asleep in my chair. But last night, oh last night was blissful. Zach put Parker to sleep just after 7pm. We’ve got a good bedtime routine now – bath, dinner, books, bottle, bed. Xander was in bed and books read and lights out just about 8pm (after two trips to the bathroom and a lengthy discussion of what we were doing tomorrow). Zach and I were both in bed by 11pm. Xander woke me around 4ish looking for his binky, but that was a quick trip.
Then at 5am I woke myself, completely paranoid that Parker must have stopped breathing. Usually he wakes us pretty consistently 3 times each night. Once around 11pm, then again sometime between 2am and 3am, and then finally around 5am. If we’re lucky, we can get him back to sleep for another hour or so after that last time. This has been our routine for a few months now. It’s not great, but we’re used to it, and we’ve been hopeful that someday soon Parker would start to grow out of at least one of those middle of the night wake-ups.
Knowing that I would not be able to return to slumber without checking, and also knowing that I had a 50% chance of waking the baby up, I went into Parker’s room to check. He had somehow done a complete 180 degree flip in his crib, and was sleeping on his stomach, but he was breathing and since I hadn’t yet woken him, I didn’t want to mess with him by flipping him back over, etc., so I crept back to bed, and smiled the blissful smile of a parent whose child has just slept through the night for the first time in a long, long time.
Let me repeat that – he slept through the night! 7pm to 6:15am! Over 11 hours straight! When I got him dressed this morning I told him that he needs to repeat that performance every night from now until the day he moves out of our house. And since all little boys listen and follow their mommies exact instructions, I’m sure that will happen any day now 
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Yay for Parker…now if Mazzy would just take some cues from Parker..i.e. saying MAMAMAMAMA instead of DADADADADA and GO BACK to sleeping through the night for me!!!!