22-7-2008 - first night

My mood while writing this blog: Ok

Okay first night of our sleep challenge was last night. Unfortunately it had to be the worst night of sleep Izzy and we have had since we brought her home. I had a lullaby CD that played throughout the whole night. We opted against white noise because 1) it was very annoying to hear all night long and 2) she has been used to hearing lullaby music since being born so we thought this would be better.

We started the bedtime routine at 7:30pm and she fell asleep around 9pm. After that and until 4am she proceeded to wake every 15-30 minutes after being put into her bassinet. She finally fell asleep when my husband took her to the couch and fell asleep with her until about 9am. So she is capable of sleeping 5 hours, but not alone in her bassinet. I think the problem might be that Halo blanket we are using at night. We used to swaddle her, but i got concerned about it being around her face so we switched blankets last thursday and I think since then we have had an issue with her sleeping (she used to sleep 1 and 1/2-3 hours in a row). So tonight we go back to a really tight swaddle!