Sweet Sleep

The sleep habits of my daughter are not something I usually care to talk about. One of the main reasons is that I'm tired of hearing the same reactions each time I tell them that my daughter sleeps through the night. I always get one of two answers;

Oh well she must be formula fed, that is probably the reason she is sleeping through the night. if you breastfed her, you'd be getting up several times a night still.

or the ever popular;

You better enjoy it while it lasts, my child slept through the night too, then, at 6 months old suddenly started getting up 4xs a night! Just you wait.

Regardless of the fact of how long she has been sleeping through the night, or the fact that she continues to do so at nearly 8 months old, we still have evenings/nights when she will wake up. Last night was the perfect example of that. We started her bedtime routine, of which we've been consistent about since she was 8 weeks old, and had her in bed by 9pm. She fell asleep at 9:30pm only to wake up at 10pm from what I think was a bad dream.

I went into her room, she was shaking, crying really hard and when I lifted her out of her crib she latched onto me. I rocked for a bit in the glider hoping to calm her and put her back to bed soon, but it took me 2 hrs to get her settled and back to sleep. She then woke up 3 more times for 10-15 mins and was up for the day at 7:30am.

Tonight she threw us for another loop by going to bed at 7.30, waking at 9pm and then went back to sleep at 10pm. Hopefully she'll sleep through the night. I'm beat and would love it if she would sleep in tomorrow. ha!