Headbath

Two weeks since the last update , and I'm happy to note the following changes: E takes three naps consistently.  I no longer need to do any shushing or rocking but I do occasionally nurse her in bed. Bedtime is not arduous at all - she fusses for a bit and then goes to sleep herself. E has figured out which fingers she likes to suck. Hooray for my nipples! I can actually do things during naptime. Those Internet memes are not going to catch up on themselves. Babies can be real babies about sleeping. If only they'd grow up about it! The Morning Nap The timing of this nap depends on when she wakes up in the morning. I see a variance in her morning wake up time but it's usually somewhere between 6 and 7:30 AM. Accordingly, the morning nap happens anytime between 8 and 9 AM.  E spends her mornings with her father. Once he has to start getting ready for work, we take the dog out and generally expose E to some fresh air and noise (my assumption being that mornin...

Okay. So my last post on baby sleep  happened around a week ago. Since then, I've logged E's sleep and I've also seen (with much delight) how she's "consolidating" her sleep as promised by Dr. Weissbluth. The Sleep Logs Over the last week, I've been logging her daytime sleep in the attempt to convert her from a sneaky in-arms cat napper (30 mins every 60 to 90 mins) to a big girl who takes big naps in her big bed. My husband made me a Google Spreadsheet that I could update on my phone to log sleep start and end times, and also measure the time from when she last awoke to when she went back to sleep. This helped me gauge the times when she gets really sleepy. As of now - she gets really sleepy about an hour after she wakes up (around 8 AM) and then 11:15 AM (yeah, it's that precise) and then around 5 PM (her shortest nap and she doesn't really want to nap but I insist because otherwise it's a nightmare getting her to go to sleep at bedtim...