My daughter Abby has been sleeping in a bassinet in our room, next to our bed since she came home. The idea is that we did not want to disrupt Grace who had been sleeping through the night and doing so rather well. Once Abby gets to a place where she is sleeping soundly through the night we would put her in her crib in the girl's room. Abby has been tapering off with the frequency by which she has been waking up at night and on the 19th of December we did the terrible deed of letting her cry all night to break her of the midnight feeding. Much to our surprise it only took one night. She began sleeping through the night after that. At that time we were still swaddling her and nothing but the sleeping habit changed.
For the last week or so, she has started to get fussy at night, sometimes starting as early as 10:30 pm and it lasts all night with a frequency of every 30-45 minutes. We try giving her a pacifier but that does not buy us much time. What changed around this time was that we began sleeping her in a sleep sack, as opposed to a swaddle. She was fussing with the swaddle a bit too, so we decided to change to the sleep sack, thinking it would give her more range of movement and comfort at night. She is still eating well during the day with three solid meals consisting of cereal and some puree foods. She naps during the day, but not to excess. It is worse than having a newborn for us right now!
Finally after about two weeks of this she has started to taper back down to fussing only a little bit. Despite all efforts to get a long restful night's sleep, having it broken in the middle of the night is maddening. Hopefully the next few nights will prove better for all of us.
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