By far the most difficult part of being a parent for Nate and I has been the issue of sleep. From the very beginning Nolan would wake up the second you placed him in a crib, pack n play, our bed...or anywhere! We soon learned that if we wanted to get some sleep the easiest way to do that was let him sleep on us. Which we did for 4 months! At first we loved it, but then we started not sleeping as well and Nolan moved around so much, I don't think he was sleeping well either.
At four months we made the big move to the crib. It did not go over very well. He soon learned to sleep on his belly which helped but he wasn't a big fan of the crib. We stuck with it most of the time, at least at night. During the day he almost always slept in his swing, which he loved.
During the night when he woke up (which he did A LOT) I would feed him and then put him back in his crib. Sometimes he would go right back to sleep and other times he wouldn't. You never knew what you were going to get. After a couple months he settled in a bit more and started waking up only twice a night. However, we soon grew tired of this and were ready for our big boy to sleep through the night...
And finally last night it happened!!! Oh, it was glorious! It only took 8.5 months! The previous two nights he had woken up after 2.5 hours and we decided to let him cry himself back to sleep instead of getting him. The first night he cried for 1.5 hours and then fell back asleep for 5 hours. The next night he cried for an hour and then went back to sleep for 5 hours. Both nights after the 5 hour stretches I fed him and put him back in his crib. Last night, he woke up after 3 hours, fussed for 15 minutes and fell back asleep until 6:30! We will see if the little man can keep this up...
