A big day (and night)

I mentioned last week that we were going to end Madeline's 9 p.m. feeding since she had stopped waking up on her own at that time. Lacey eliminated it for the first time on Friday, and Madeline woke up at 4:30 a.m. that night, ready to eat. But last night she slept all the way through the night, going down at 7 p.m. and sleeping soundly until 6:30 a.m., for a total of almost 12 consecutive hours.

Almost three months ago I wrote about Madeline's first full night's sleep, but that represented an 8-hour stretch after the 9 p.m. feeding. I am going to consider last night the first night Madeline slept entirely through the night. At just a shade over 5 months, it's about the time we were told Madeline would be sleeping from mid-evening to the morning, even though there were times along the way we would never allow ourselves to believe that she would sleep more than 4 hours at a time!

This afternoon Madeline accomplished another notable achievement: she rolled from her back to her tummy. My last entry detailed how Madeline was getting closer and closer to this goal. She's moving so much now that we were hardly impressed when she rolled from her tummy to her back (the easier maneuver) three times yesterday. But today's feat was something to be lauded.

Though she enjoys sitting and playing (as in the picture above), Madeline still spends most of her time on her back. For a tummy-to-back roll, someone first had to put her on her tummy. The fact that she can now get herself from her back to her tummy without assistance means she's going to be more autonomous in finding ways to explore her surroundings.