Sleeping

Hope you all had an eventful weekend.  We had a good one with lots of sleep! Thankfully, Maxwell has really become a great sleeper. This is how our days typically go:

6:30 to 7:00 – wake up
9:00 to 11:00 – nap 1
1:00 to 3:00 – nap 2
4:45 to 5:30 – nap 3
6:30 to 7:00 – bath and bed

Yes, he really does take two 2 hour naps!  I love having him on such a reliable schedule – it makes life much easier!  He’s still taking all of his naps in his swing.  Is that good?  bad?  don’t know but it’s working for us.  We don’t even have to rock him to sleep anymore – we just put him in his swing and, after a few minutes of fussing, he’ll fall asleep on his own.  Hooray!  This past week we stopped swaddling him for his naps because we needed to be able to buckle him into his swing.  You can’t buckle him in if he’s wrapped up in the swaddle blanket and, after seeing how much he was moving around in the swing, we knew we needed to strap him in!

For nighttime sleep we usually rock him for about 10 minutes and then lay him in his crib still awake (we stopped swaddling him at night about a month ago).  He’ll cry anywhere from 3 minutes to 30 minutes (those 30 minute nights are not fun) but then will fall asleep.  About 50% of the time he’ll wake up around 2:00 am to eat and the other 50% he’ll sleep all night through to the morning.  I know he doesn’t really need that middle of the night feeding anymore so we’re working on cutting that out completely soon.  Overall, he’s doing fantastic.  He’s such a happy little guy and I really think that is because he’s so well rested.  I’m a big believer in following a good nap schedule…he benefits and mom benefits!  A win win for everyone!

Sorry if that info was boring…I just want to keep a record for myself of what he’s doing at this age.  I know it will all be changing soon!

Here’s a couple of pics of Maxwell dreaming away in his swing…

All buckled in so he won’t go anywhere!  🙂