Sleep Training Day 6

In less than a week life has been transformed. Wren goes to bed around 8pm without crying or nursing. I nurse him in his sleep when I come to bed and again around 4am and he wakes at 6.15am. He is still a bit restless from 4am-6ish and I am working to eliminate that 4am nursing in case it wakes him from a deep sleep period and he has trouble settling in again.

This morning I nursed him when he woke and he slept till 7.30am!

Yesterday we started putting him down to nap after 2 hours awake or when he looked tired. This was substantially sooner than the schedule I had been following for the past 5 days. His naps when MUCH better this way - perhaps avoiding him becoming overtired. He napped 1 hour each nap, almost 2 hours one nap and had a little short 4th nap from which I woke him to make sure he would be tired at bedtime.

Tonight I am going to try and not wake him for his 4am nursing and see when he complains.

He is a happy fat chunker - weighed 19.5 lbs at the naturopath yesterday. It was so great to be able to see a naturopath instead of a specialist allopathic doctor. We talked about Wren's eczema and food introduction. When he is 6 mths we are going to start with yams, pear, apple purees with a few drops of a mild prescription iron. He is to have no grains for 3-4 months longer due to Frost's gluten problems and his eczema.

Today we are going garage sale-ing.