As promised, here is an update on how MFG is sleeping. She has done so well since we moved her into the nursery! The first few nights were a little tough...she started waking up again about every 3 hours, which she had not done in awhile. After some advice from other moms and my own mom and sister, we tried several tactics. First, I put one if my shirts in her crib at night so she could smell me at night, and gave her a tiny amount (2 oz) of formula after her last nursing to "top her off" and keep her more full and......voila! She slept through the night!!!! The first time was last Tuesday, from 9:15pm to 6:15am. Amazing. Since then, she has been sleeping through the night every night! We've continued giving her the 2 oz of formula and we also stopped swaddling her 3 nights ago because she had started completely breaking out of the swaddle by morning. She likes her sleep sack and is sleeping really well. Two nights, she has woken up and fussed for a few minutes, but she has fallen back to sleep without us having to go in to the nursery. (Last night, I'm pretty sure the reason she woke up at 3:45am was the HUGE poop blowout that Tommy found when he went in to get her and changed her at 6:30am. Oops, neglectful parents!)
What a difference sleeping through the night makes, and it is just in time since I am going back to work in 2 days :(
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