What Happened??
Topic: Reid's Sleep Pattern
For the past 6 weeks or so, Reid's been consistantly sleeping 9-10 hours at night, but over the last couple weeks, he's started waking at 3 or 4 am and not going back to sleep until I'd feed him. The doctor said he may be going through a growth spurt. I re-read through my book on Parent-Directed Feeding to try to figure out how to handle it. I learned that, rather than letting Reid wake me up in the morning at whatever time, I should be waking him at a regular time each morning to stay in charge and to help stabilize his metabolism. I also read that I should pick a weekend when we have nothing to do to re-train Reid to sleep through those hours. It definitely took more work than just getting up and feeding him, but after a few nights of getting up a few times to put him back to bed, he's since started sleeping through til his wake-up time again. What a relief!