Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Getting Felix to sleep through - fifth night

Night 5 sleep report:

Felix settled himself to sleep around 19.00, then woke at 03.45, did about 10 minutes halfhearted whimpering that was barely audible, then went back to sleep by himself.

Hurrah! Elation! Joy!

Babymomma was very excited that he had actually slept through for the first time.

But then 20 minutes later and mid-celebration Felix woke up again and started whimpering himself fully awake. This time I went into check him, my cunning plan being to wear bf's enormous dressing gown to disguise the smell of milk and make Felix think I am daddy. Needless to say, I wasn't expecting too much.

So Felix is whimpering, then goes all silent and hopeful when he hears my footsteps, looks at me imploringly as I reposition him, then as I turn to go he starts screaming in a way that translates as "Nooooo! Don't Go! Come back! Mummy come back! Mummy come back now! Pleeease come back! I want a cuuuuuuuddle!!!!!!!!!!!"

But it only lasted half an hour this time, and the gaps between his fits of crying are growing longer, so we're definitely on the right path.

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