Zoe has always been a good sleeper, so I started to slightly panic last week when her sleep pattern abruptly changed. She suddenly wasn’t interested in being bounced or sung to sleep at\u00c2\u00a0 night, and she started to wake up in the middle of the night and\u00c2\u00a0cry – something she hadn’t done since she was quite small.\u00c2\u00a0It was also taking her up to an hour to get back to sleep after a crying episode, when it\u00c2\u00a0used to\u00c2\u00a0take her closer to 5 or 10\u00c2\u00a0minutes.<\/p>\n
Q and I got our heads together and determined that we needed to be better about keeping her on\u00c2\u00a0a schedule. Maintaining her morning and afternoon naps hadn’t been a problem, but we hadn’t been very consistent about bedtime. We decided that we would establish a bedtime ritual; we would feed\u00c2\u00a0and read to her at 8 PM every night, with a goal of getting her to sleep (or, at least in her crib) by 8:30 PM. We also decided to be better at letting her cry a bit – with the hope that she would learn to self sooth. (I hate letting her cry, but I know it’s something that has to be done – at least for a few minutes.)<\/p>\n
We kicked off the new schedule last Friday night, and I’m happy to report that things have gone swimmingly. She woke up and fussed a bit the first two nights, but ever since she has slept right on through until 7 AM – when we wake her up. Q and I have gotten around 8 hours of sleep every night this week, and I can’t tell you how refreshed that makes us feel!<\/p>\n
-M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Zoe has always been a good sleeper, so I started to slightly panic last week when her sleep pattern abruptly changed. She suddenly wasn’t interested in being bounced or sung to sleep at\u00c2\u00a0 night, and she started to wake up in the middle of the night and\u00c2\u00a0cry – something she hadn’t done since she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-four-to-five-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zoe.browdy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}