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Up until Sunday night, Oliver had maintained a schedule of waking up every three to four hours during the night. When you consider that it takes up to an hour to nurse him, change his diaper, then rock him back to sleep, that often didn’t leave much room for our sleep (mostly Hong, but also myself as the official night-time diaper-changer and rocker.)

On Sunday night, we made a few changes to his sleep arrangements, such as putting him in another room, removing the “white noise” that we had been trying with initial success, and making more effort to let him sleep during the morning and keep him up longer during the afternoon and evening. Voila, he went for six hours between feedings. Hallelujah! Trying the same schedule last night gave us a five-hour stretch. Four hours of sleep never felt so good.

To add to the pleasantry, Maggie has been sleeping a bit longer after being on a low-sleep schedule for the past few weeks. We had been putting her to bed at 10pm and she’d still wake up at 6:30am or 7:00am at the latest, but last night she slept from 9:30pm-7:30pm. That made our night of sleep even better.