Sleeping Like a Baby!

After four long months of constantly waking up multiple times in the night, I am pleased to announce that Anna has finally gotten back in the habit of sleeping through the night!!! It's been about 2 weeks or so now. I finally got so tired of her waking up, that one night, after the 3rd wake up, I just had to lay her down, leave the room and let her cry. I was so sick of it. Dan finally got up and laid his hand on her so she couldn't get up and she finally fell asleep. We had to start doing that for a few weeks. Once she woke up, just lay her back down and keep a hand on her so she wouldn't get up. She'd cry a lot, finally calm down, and then fall asleep. 

Part of her waking up was my fault. She used to be an awesome sleeper. From about 2-5 months, she was a great sleeper. She would sleep usually 11-12 hours straight. Then, she started teething and it all went downhill from there. She would wake up and I would feed her (#1 bad thing to do). Then, we went to Utah for Christmas and I didn't want to wake up Dan's family, so I would feed her to get her to stop crying (#2 bad idea). She then got in the habit of expecting me to feed her when she woke up. I would try and carry her up and down the hall at night (this helps her get back to sleep), but it would take so long and I have a bad back and she was so heavy, I just couldn't do it. So my easiest solution was to feed her. Things will be different with baby #2. 

I am just so grateful that I can get some solid sleep now. I was getting so exhausted of only getting 3 hours of sleep at a time. I just hope this is a permanent change!

Anna, 4 months. She would fall asleep like this all the time. We would say she looked like a little frog. So cute...