Friday, February 6, 2009

Night time trick

This is a new trick we thought of to help Lyla sleep longer in the night. A bowl of cereal before bed...but the only time she will sit quietly to eat it is in her bath. It is actually the perfect place to feed her because it is convenient for cleaning her up afterwards! Usually she hates her face to be wiped after dinner, but she is fine with it in the bath!


The question is...Is it working? Well, last night Miss June bug slept from 8:00-4:00 without one of us making a trip to her room! I nursed her at 4:00 and then she went back to sleep from 4:30-7:30 for a total of 11 hours of sleep! We have also made a real commitment for me to stop nursing her in the night. What ever it is...something is working. I don't want to jinx it, but I think we are on our way to "sleeping through the night"!

2 comments:

Julie said...

Eating while taking a bath is genius! I will have to try that with this third kiddo.

And, I hope she continues to sleep well for you. It was hard to quit nursing my girls during the night, but definitely helped them sleep longer.

Melanie Tipton said...

right oh!!! Yes, I have to second that...genius! I wish I could have done that with Ren tonight. He decided to throw his vegetable lomein on the floor first, and then the second time by catapult out of his mouth to the floor. Eating while bathing, brilliant!