Trying Something New

We haven't had to introduce a "dream feed" since Lucas sort of fell into sleeping from 6pm until about 4 am and then again until 7am. Well the good ole days have been over for the past 5 weeks his night time sleeping has gotten progressively worse - yeah I know as they get older things are supposed to get better not worse. The last 3 nights have been particularly bad. let me paint a picture

6 pm sleeping
11 pm awake crying for no real reason - try to settle him, wont settle
12 am feed him and he falls asleep
2 am awake again looking for something - no one knows what Peter settles him
2:20 am let him cry and settle himself
3 am awake again Peter has to settle him takes about 3o min or maybe an hour
4 am or 5 am awake again looking for something again - Peter in to settle him again finally asleep
6 am up for the day

So we have gotten a lot worse, not better. We have tried to have me settle him but that doesnt work at all, last night he actually started to hit and kick me so I caved and fed him - couldn't handle angry Lucas

So here is the game plan

6 pm bed
10 pm I go in and dream feed him - that basically means I feed him while he is asleep and try really hard not to wake him up, put him back to bed still asleep (fingers crossed)
6 am wake up ready for the day

This is the plan, and this is the result we are looking for! From what I have read it should work, it may take a couple of nights to get things sorted but hopefully it makes things better around here.

As Patto will tell you I am grumpy when I dont get my sleep so we need to take some steps to get things under control.

He is still a cute little guy

Elissa and Sean are back from Canada. Elissa had some time with Lucas tonight, lots of smiles and giggles shared between them, we even listened to the CD you sent already Emily (all good stuff), unfortunately Lucas was already in bed when Sean got here, hopefully next time they can play together.

Lots of gifts came back from Canada for Lucas - So generous a lot of people really like the little guy back there.

I am writing the blog and the camera is in Lucas' room so I will load up more pictures tomorrow - sorry just news today no new photos but dont worry I have more photos - a day doesnt go by that I dont take at least one