... I guess you can't win 'em all. Since he turned four months, Colson has been waking up again in the middle of the night to eat. At first I thought it was because I was sleeping in the same bed with him while we were at my parents' house, but since we've been back, he's still been waking up. At first it was 2am and 4am, then 1am and 3am, then 1am, 3am, and 5 am. Last night takes the cake -- he woke up to eat at midnight, then was stirring around 1:20am and woke up, not to eat, he didnt even cry, he was just up and looking around. Finally close to 2am, I fed him and he fell asleep, but only until about 2:15! He was up from then until 4am -- just talking to himself. There's a nightlight in his room so he was staring at the mobile and talking to himself -- but it was loud. Finally, I figured he was fine and entertaning himself, so I shut his door and went back to bed. He was still up at about 4 -- I turned on the mobile and he finally fell asleep at 5. But only until 5:30 ... it was a long night.
I read that around this age, babies are going through major developmental stages and so they are learning and more distracted during the day, so they eat less during the day and need to make up for it at night.
But we also have good news to report! Colson may be back into the bottle ... don't want to jinx it! While we were at my parents, my mom gave him a bottle everyday. It was hard, but each time she managed to distract him enough to get a couple of ounces in. But I know that he guzzles down way more than 2 ounces at an avaerage feeding. On the 24th we went to a wedding and left Colson with Nick's mom. The wedding was half an hour away and we planned on being gone until at least 10:00. I was worried that Colson was going to give his grandmother a hard time ... but when we got back home, she said that he did a great job and sucked down a bottle and a half - no problem! So we are continuing to give him a bottle at least every other night. Fingers crossed!
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