She slept "through the night".....

Isn't that what those insane parents say when their baby sleeps for 5 hours straight? Well...Jayla did it last night. I thought that she was going to wake up after 45 minutes (we put her to bed at 10) like she did the night before, but nope...she ended up sleeping till 3am. And I know what you're all thinking...wow...that must have been a nice long sleep for you. It would have been, except first of all, thinking that she was probably going to wake up at 11, I didn't go to bed right away and second, she is the noisiest sleeper ever. Even though she's in the nursery, I still have the monitor on and I can hear every time she thinks she's ready to get up. So, last night that was at 10:45, 12:30, 1:15, 2:00 and 2:30...and then at 3 she really did get up. So 5 hours in a row...I was so impressed.

I don't know if we can attribute this new success to the chiropractic adjustments, but it seems they are doing something. In fact, yesterday when we came home from our visit, I fed Jayla and then put her down around 12:30pm and she slept till 4:30pm...a nice long nap. And I myself, enjoyed 3 hours of sleep...uninterupted....she seems to be a less noisy sleeper during the day.

I was trying to replay our evening last night - so that we can duplicate it....in hopes of another 5 hour stretch of sleep. Here's what I can remember. She got up at 4:30pm I fed her (on and off till about 5:15) changed her diaper. Daddy came home at about 5:30...he played for a few minutes before going to sleep himself (he had a migraine)....then I fed her for a little more and she was asleep by 5:50pm. I then went ahead and did my pilates workout, made and ate dinner by myself :( and then I called my mom and sister to visit. We got Jayla up about 8:15pm, changed her, aunt Amanda fed her a bit of EBM from a bottle, then she had a big poop! She was so serious as this was going on....she meant business. We changed her, then daddy got a bath ready. This was around 9pm, so we bathed her, put some lotion on, new diaper and some jammies, then I fed her a bit more. Grandma, Grandpa and aunt Amanda had to go, so they kissed her goodbye...I went upstairs swaddled her and tried feeding her some more. She ate for a few more minutes...and then she was sleepy. So, I put her in the crib, put on the white noise machine and let her fall asleep on her own. It worked...And that was around 10:10pm when she was out like a light....I now start thinking...what was the magic ingredient??? The EBM out of a bottle? the presence of grandma, grandpa and auntie? the bath? the poop? I don't know...but hopefully we have a repeat of that tonight...cross your fingers folks!

Oh and Amanda took an awesome picture of her in the bath...I have to share!!