Friday, April 29, 2011

Sleeping at One Year

I am pleased to report that Delphinium has regularly begun sleeping through the night again.  She used to do that often from the age of seven weeks until six months, but then we went on our world travels, and her schedule went completely out of whack.  When we returned from South Africa, she was getting up two, three, or even four times per night, and that wasn't even including some of her terrible teething nights.  We tried all sorts of strategies to help her, but ultimately, the only thing that would get her back to sleep was plenty of rocking or nursing.  To make things more challenging, she does not want to see Daddy at night.  He is pretty much her most favorite person during the day, but at night he becomes highly unacceptable.  I am so, so lucky that I do not have to try and work in the mornings.  I don't know how some people manage!

Nevertheless, that's all behind us (oh please! oh please!) because all by herself Delphinium grew into big girl sleeping.  Most nights she goes down without a fuss (often for Daddy too!), and some nights she doesn't even cry at all.  She just cuddles down with her blankie and her bears and goes to sleep, and then stays that way until the morning light.  Of course we do still have the rough patches, but they are getting fewer and farther between.  Let's just hope it keeps up this way.  Now that I've had a taste of the real sleep, I don't know what it would feel like to go back.

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