There's a First for Everything . . . Almost!

So I normally don't post, Steph does such a good job keeping things up to date and interesting on here. But this event was too exciting. Noah will be 9 months old in 4 days and he is such a delight to have in our family. However he's a HORRIBLE SLEEPER :)

The longest stretch he's ever had is about 4 hours and that was a rarity. Usually his schedule is something like this, go down at 8, get up at 10 (feed and go back down), get up around 12 or 1 (feed and go back down), get up around 2 or 3 (sometimes feed and go back down), and often gets up around 5 (the goes back down for a few more hours).

I'm not complaining just trying to help you see how monumental last night was :). We have not let him cry it out like we did with Hyrum because he wakes Hyrum up. So last night we decided to put in a pack 'n play in the play room in the basement (with his heater of course). We set up the monitor so we could hear him in our bedroom (two floors up). He went down at 8 like normal and then woke up around 9:30. We kept him up as close to 11:00 as we could and then put him to bed in his new makeshift nursery. After reading scriptures and praying really hard that Steph and Noah would get a full night's sleep (for the first time since Noah was born). . . we went to bed and when we woke up at 7:00 am this is what we found in the playroom:


SUCCESS. . . he's still asleep. Unfortunately Steph has a bad sore throat and so she still woke up throughout the night, but even with that it was a much better night than she's had in a loooooooong time! We'll keep you posted as we try for two nights in a row tonight!


ADDENDUM:

The night was good for us but may not have been so good for Noah. When he woke up around 8:00 am he was acting confused, and more groggy than usual. That got us thinking maybe he was screaming and we didn't hear him. I checked the monitor and found that the green "link" light was on however there was no sound coming through it (not even white noise). Turns out the monitor tries to be smart, you can set a "sensitivity" level on it and if the noise doesn't exceed the sensitivity threshold then the monitor goes into a silent mode until some noise exceeds the threshold. We did not know this. The sensitivity was set to the lowest setting and after testing it this morning that meant that Noah would have had to basically have his mouth against the monitor and scream for it to "activate" our receiver upstairs. So the poor guy may have been screaming for 6 hours for all we know. Does this make us mean parents . . . I don't think so. Perhaps he "cried it out" a little longer and harder than we intended, but the point is for him to learn to sleep without our aid. . . so I guess mission accomplished :) But lest ye think me heartless we are going to make sure the sensitivity level is set adequately high tonight so that if he's crying we can at least be aware of it.