Much better!

Well, things have gotten much better since my last post! Maybe that's the trick... just complain about something on your blog and it will fix itself! :) The last few nights I've only had to wake up once, sometime between 3-4am. I'm still doing a "dream feed" around 10pm before I go to sleep at night (meaning: I go in there to feed her while she's still sleeping). My current strategy is this: no more feeding Siena in her room other than the dream feed and the 3:30 feed. I had learned from Chase that you should always put your baby to sleep awake so that they can learn to go back to sleep on their own in the middle of the night. So that's something I've always done with Siena... I never let her fall asleep while nursing (well, after about 2 months, before that it's pretty impossible). But it didn't seem to help the sleeping situation. So now I've resolved to try to totally disassociate sleeping and nursing for her. No more nursing her right before nap or bedtime in her room. This is really tough for me because it's soooo hard to get her to focus when there's so much going on around her. And I really enjoyed that quiet time in her room when I could sing and rock with her. Sure, I try to do that before bed now without feeding her... but she's so busy trying to get down and GO that it's not quite the same. But my strategy appears to be working... or maybe it's just coincidence. Or maybe it's that I complained on my blog... I guess I'll never know!