The fifth week

This week, the theme is sleep. At our pediatrician appointment on Monday, Lacey and I chuckled with disbelief when the doctor said Madeline could be sleeping up to six hours a night within the next few weeks. It seemed like such an impossibility.

Then, on that same night, Madeline slept for more than four hours in a row. At 2:45 a.m. Lacey came to make sure everyone was still alive because we hadn't come to get her up yet. Four hours was the most uninterrupted sleep she's had in a month. On Tuesday night we got another 4-hour stretch. We wondered if we had turned a corner.

On Wednesday and Thursday we were back to our old routine - up every two or three hours overnight. We're not naive enough to believe that one night's experience is the beginning of a pattern - there will be more good nights and there will be more bad ones - but we've seen that glimmer of hope.