After a long feed and a walk around the block, she slept from 6:30-9 in her stroller, allowing me to run out to the store by myself and allowing Steve and I to make dinner together. Optimistically, I tried to put her to bed after I fed her at 9:00, but she fussed a bit and wanted to be held. At 10:45, I fed her again. Afterwards, she went to sleep in her crib, with not even a single whimper. I also went to bed immediately and was sound asleep before my head ever hit the pillow. Since the doctor just told me that I could let her sleep longer at night, I did not bother to set an alarm; I figured she would wake me up when she was hungry. I was so surprised this morning when I woke up to see that the sun was starting to come up. I woke her up at 5:30, fed her, changed her diaper, and put her back in the crib. Again, not even a whimper, she went back to sleep. Let's hope this is the start of a trend, and not just a fluke. I really like getting more than a 30-minute nap at night. I feel like a whole new woman. I know, I probably should have gone back to bed after I laid her back down at 6, but I do not think my body would know what to do with all the extra sleep.
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you are pretty lucky........hope it lasts!
UPDATE - it was a fluke. Though, she typically has the same pattern with a long nap from 6-9 in the evening and then again in the morning from 6am to 10 or 11, but she is pretty consistently getting up between 2:30 and 4:30am for some food. She also remains pretty fussy between 9pm and 11pm, before she finally settles and decides to just go to sleep. That middle of the night feeding kills me. I can never stay awake, so we end up falling asleep in the chair and I wake up about 2 hours after I started feeding her.
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