Stretch!

People keep asking how we are doing sleep-wise. Truth is, so far, so good. (Of course the sheer act of recording this will make things deteriorate immediately.) He can go as much as 4 hours at a stretch at night. Generally, though, he wakes for meals every 3 hours. Our real problem is that we have a hard time getting him calmed down after his snack. He'll have a nice 4 ounce bottle, get all snoozy and then poop. Of course we have to change his diaper which gets him all riled up. (He calms down but then is usually awake and rarin' to go.)

Last night's schedule went something like this (an approximation, who keeps track in the middle of the night):
8:00 bottle
9:00 finally asleep
12:30 bottle (Bob gave this one)
12:45 asleep
3:15 bottle (Karin knows this one because its right when Morning Edition started)
4:00 asleep
7:00 awake and ready to start the day (Yeah for Daddy the early bird)

Unfortunately, I haven't mastered easily falling back asleep yet. I'm sure that is a skill I'll aquire soon.

Bottle feeding is a pretty big advantage for us. It means that we really can trade off in the middle of the night.