Sleeping Baby

We have a sleeper!!!  Charlee May slept through the WHOLE night last night at 9 ½ weeks old!  She’s always been a wonderful sleeper and has been “sleeping through the night” since about 4 weeks of age.  Pediatricians say that “sleeping through the night” in a newborn is considered a span of 5 hours.  We had that schedule down pat…put to bed at 9pm, feeding at 2am, and then slept to about 5:30am.  I consider myself a very blessed momma because there are many babies that don’t do that until 9 months old or even later!  I have to credit the principles of the book “Baby Wise”.  Babywise is an infant management plan that successfully and naturally helps infants synchronize their feeding, waketime, and nighttime sleep cycles.  It totally woks!  It’s like Charlee’s little internal clock knows when its night time and day time.  From the time she wakes up around 5:30-6am, she eats every three hours (give or take) and then we have “playtime” until I put her down for a nap about an hour and a half before her next feeding…The big baby wise thing is to put the baby down awake so she will know how to put herself to sleep on her own.  Now there might be sometimes where she’s zonked out when I lay her down but there are other times when she’s awake.  She doesn’t seem to mind…….yet!  I hope that she continues the 9pm to 5:30am nights!  Who knows, last night could have been just a lucky night, but I’ve been waiting for her to drop that 2am feeding in the middle of the night and it happened!  Here are some photos of my sleeping angel...