Sleep

I almost forgot (which is funny because it is so important). Dominic is now sleeping from 8:30pm till around 1 or 2 am. He may wake earlier then this, but only so that I help him lay down and he goes right back to sleep. We are down to 2 feedings a night and 4-5 hour stretches of sleep!!! I feel like I have slept so much that I could almost get up for the day at 4 or 5 am. However, I always try to coax Dominic into sleeping till at least 7am, because if I don't he will want to go to bed before 7pm. So, progress is being made, slowly, but surely.

This whole process started about a week ago or so when I found out that past four months of age there is no need to be fed at night anymore and that he had just learned that nursing was his remedy for going back to sleep. He didn't want to feed, he was using me like a human pacifier and because I was getting so little sleep I would continue the process because it was easy and fairly fast (plus I was half out of it). Once I found this out I decided this was it, it has to stop soon. Thus, we began the process. The first three nights were rough, Matt even asked me to start the next night after a Sunday night of crying for 2 hours +. But, two days later he was sleeping longer then he ever had. So, now we only need to wean out 2 more night feedings and then hopefully we will have some full nights of sleep. I am not going to start the other two till Dominic has his own room. He is going to have disruption enough by moving and I don't need to start that too, at least right now.