Losing it

If anyone was paying attention last night, you saw in my last post I said Lily was 6 weeks old. Last week must have felt twice as long because she's only 5 weeks. I think the lack of sleep is finally getting to my brain. I have fixed the post so it's correct now.

Last week I tried to alter Lily's sleep schedule because I thought she was going to bed too late and wanted her to fall asleep earlier. Before she was falling asleep around 10 or 11 pm. With several 1 hr feedings in between, we weren't starting our day until 10 or 11 am. But the good thing was that her first night time feeding was usually 4-5 hours after she fell asleep. She was often taking a nap around 5-7 pm which I thought was the cause for the late bed time. So last week when she started getting sleepy around 5 I gave her a bath to keep her awake. 2 out of 3 nights she fell asleep around 7 pm, which was what I was hoping for. However, what I didn't plan on was the fact that we lost our 5 hour stretch of sleep and she went back to waking every 3 hours. It's amazing what a difference it makes only getting 3 hrs of sleep in a row vs. 5 hrs in a row.

So last night, I skipped the bath to see what would happen. She napped at 5 pm, she had several feedings between 7 and 10 pm, she fell asleep around 11pm and our next feeding wasn't until 4 am!! So it's official... no more baths at 5 pm! Mommy needs her sleep more than she needs an earlier bed time. The books say Lily won't really get a good schedule until she's older. So until then, as long as she gives me those long stretches of sleep, I'll let her sleep whatever time she wants to. I never thought I'd be so happy to get 5 hours of sleep! Oh, the joys of motherhood.