Once bitten

Well I think I jinxed us with last post because it was followed by two of the worst night’s sleeps we’ve had.

The first night Lenny was up every couple of hours all night long. So the next night we decided Nath would do whatever it took to get Lenny back to sleep without a breastfeed if he woke any time before 4am.

He first woke at 1.45 and it took 45 minutes of fairly intense crying before he fell back to sleep. But he woke up 20 minutes later and then every 10 minutes until I finally caved and gave him a feed at 3.45.

Then yesterday he grabbed my finger and put it in his mouth, which is not unusual, but this time I felt something sharp. Lenny’s getting his first teeth!

At first I felt excited about the next big step in his little life, then I felt a pang of sadness about my little gummy baby growing up. But then there was a sense of relief – finally I can blame the crap sleeping on teething!

For the last two months we’ve been up at least twice a night and I was always checking for teeth to blame it on. They were never there.

But despite the rough night’s I’ve always gone to bed each night believing that this night would be the one when he sleeps better – it’s the only way I’m able to relax enough to go to sleep myself.

Anyway, having had the two bad nights and discovering the teeth breaking through I went to bed last night expecting the worst. I had the bonjela on hand and was prepared to be up and down all night.

But little Lenny is always full of surprises and after crashing just after 8pm he slept all the way through till twenty to five. That’s the longest sleep he’s had in three months. Unfortunately, having psyched myself up for a long night I didn’t get much sleep anyway.

Tonight he’s been in bed since 7.30 and I’m believing he’s down till at least 5am. I’ll let you know how it goes…