Lexi has recently started to sleep longer at night. Normally, one would think the end result of this would be better sleep for me. That's where the baby math factors in. Previously, she would sleep two or three hours at a time. Our routine has been that Kristi would give Lexi to me after her last feeding of the night and we would sleep on the couch until she woke up for her next feeding. This would usually fall around 2-3am. I would then change her, hand her off to Kristi for a late night feeding, and I would get a couple hours more sleep before I had to go to work. The past couple nights, she has been sleeping 5-6 hours overnight. This now has her waking up about an hour before my alarm goes off. Hopefully we'll now be able to get her to sleep overnight in her bassinet so I can actually get some sleep in the bed.
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Have you tried swaddling? That's the only thing that got any of the girls to sleep in a crib or bassinet during the first three months.
Glad to hear she's sleeping longer...gives me something to look forward to! Olivia went 6 hours once, and Evelyn regularly does 4. They're also coordinating their feedings more often, which cuts back on the number of times I have to get up.
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, that is with her being swaddled. Well, at least her version of being swaddled. Lexi is determined that she has to have at least one hand up by her face at all times. So, we try to accommodate her and swaddle her with one hand up. She often gets the second one up and out too (as she did in the post's picture) . . . Maybe we should have called her Houdini. . . .
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