It's been a quiet week, a good week. The days have been nice and the nights are slowly getting better. Madeline's daily schedule has become as predictable as the seasons.
Madeline sleeps well for the first part of the night, from about 9 p.m. until about 2:30 a.m. Occasionally she'll need to be comforted to fall back to sleep, but she usually doesn't need to be picked up. After her 2:30 feeding, though, things can be a little more tenuous. Once she's put back down she often grunts and cries out, even though she might not be awake. And she's generally ready to get her day started by about 5:30.
As some of you may know, I work evenings at the newspaper. So it basically works out that Madeline is sleeping well during the early of the part of the night when Lacey is in bed, and then is restless and awake once I come home and try to sleep. But Lacey has been nice about letting me sleep a little in the morning.
Notes from this week
- Lacey and I were amused Thursday as Madeline grabbed the pacifier from her mouth and then tried to put it back in, sideways. While it was pretty funny to watch, it was also a good indicator that she's working on her hand-eye coordination. She still doesn't grab objects purposefully, but she grasps things she comes in contact with casually.
- We've started putting Madeline to bed in her crib again after letting her sleep in her swing in our bedroom for a few weeks. When the acid reflux was in full force, she would only sleep when she was in motion. Now that the symptoms are mostly gone we're hoping she'll take to her crib, sparing us from listening to all those small grunts throughout the night. So far it seems to be going well.
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