Gotta love SLEEP!

For the last 3 nights the Sleep has been amazing!

A friend who had been bragging about her son sleeping for 12 hours a night sent me the Sleep Sense Book on Friday. So we made a few tweaks to our bedtime rules and voila, Asher sleeps almost through the night!

Basically the only real change we made was not going into his room when he wakes up in the middle of the night. Rather we wait for a minimum of 3 minutes (10 minutes at most) and give him a chance to put himself back to sleep.

We have been doing this for naps also.

Asher has always napped for about 30 minutes several times per day. But now, when he wakes up 30 minutes into his nap, I give him a few minutes and usually within a minute or so he is able to put himself right back to sleep.


Yesterday's nap was 1 hour and 45 minutes!
Last night he slept from 8pm - 7am and we only had to go into his room once during the night!
The night before he slept from 7:20pm - 8:30am and again we only had to go in once!

He is actually napping right now... and I'm hoping it will go just as well!

I have to say, having him nap and sleep so well at night makes me feel SO much better about going back to work!

Speaking of which, today was Asher's first morning at daycare!

Gord dropped him off at 8:30am and Tricia and I went out shopping for the morning. I was going to pick him up at 12 but as I was heading home I figured I would call to see how things were going and see if she wanted me to come and get him a bit early.

Turns out she did!

Not that he was terrible, but I think she was just a bit overwhelmed having a 10 month old and all the other kids too (she has two girls of her own and a boy she looks after)! She said that she forgot what it was like with such a little one. Apparently he didn't want to be put down so she had to pack him around :O( He didn't want to go down for a nap either... I felt kind of bad for her... she seemed a bit frazzled but assured me that both she and Asher would get used to it!

Hopefully the next time goes better!