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The Most Beautiful Thing... Sleeping Children

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I just have to document the EXACT day that DALLIN SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT. I mean, it's one of those "will this ever happen" dreams (I have a few). BUT THIS ONE DID! My prayers were answered 4.5 months post Dallin's birth. July 21st. Dallin is trying to give daddy the best birthday gift ever...we appreciate it buddy! Too bad Dad wasn't here. bwahaha. And too bad Lexi spilled water in the bed to wake me up instead. WHATEVER. Count your blessings name them 1 by 1. 

Backstory: About a week ago we tried longer cry-it-out sessions. I knew the doctor was going to say he didn't need to eat at 2 AM, and I was right so I tried gearing up for that and then we were in full swing starting the day of his apt (exactly a week ago). If he was fed and fine, we left him, but only for one day was he in our room. We moved Lexi's mattress to the foot of our bed and put him in her room. We stayed up a few nights wasting TV time while he cried and it wasn't more than an hour. Occasionally we'd go in and put the pacifier in and adjust his position. When he cried in the middle of the night, I'd let him cry 15-30 min before pacifier & readjustment. But he was only giving us 3ish hour stretches! So the 2nd time he cried, (4am-ish) I fed him. I didn't want him waking up 1-2 hours later actually hungry. The doc said to feed him after 8 hours if he woke up hungry. And honestly, he didn't need the 4 AM feed, it was just me trying to milk a longer stretch to at least 7 AM. 

And then miracles of miracles, I put him down at 730 (slowing trying to rid the evening nap and do an earlier bedtime to see if it would help), he was fussy 830-930 and then I didn't hear from him "enough to care, cause I don't remember" until 7 AM. Freakin fantastic. 

I've been trying to pay more attention and giving some care to his day naps schedule. The day of this miracle, he had a hard time going down for naps and that night, he was on his belly. I think he cries less in that position...but really it's still all a guess. And tonight might be completely different because I pulled some snot out of his stuffy nose earlier *eye roll* 

But if he starts behaving well at night...we might just be willing to consider more Smith babies.




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