Smith

You guys, Smith is the BEST little sleeper. I still can't believe it! 

Let's back track a little....here's Miss Kamryn.

She was the best sleeper! From 4 weeks on she would sleep through the night. (through the night meaning, go to bed at 10-11pm and sleepb til 7am). Remember, I was only 23 when she was born. I just thought all babies were good sleepers and those who's babies were not sleeping through the night were surely doing something wrong. I now know I got very lucky. I went on to have 3 more babies who all were "okay" sleepers. Logan, Kensington and Tenley weren't great sleepers, they weren't terrible but it was definitely months and months before I got a full nights sleep. They all woke up once a night. And Kensington and Tenley were definitely a year old still getting up once a night. I remember being very pregnant with Tenley and Kensington was still waking up and I thought "How am I going to do this?!" Thankfully before Tenley was born she figured it out but man...I was TIRED!

Fast forward to Smith. 

Now for the first 8 weeks of Smith's life if he was awake and I wasn't holding him, he was crying. It was really hard. I tried to use a sling and wear him and I HATED it. I felt so claustrophobic, I felt like he was going to fall out (he wasn't but I pictured the worst), so I wore him but still felt like I needed to hold him in the sling so I was never actually hands free. So I held him and did my thing. However, he was sleeping amazingly at night! He'd fall asleep on my chest anytime between 6pm and 9pm and he'd wake up at 2am on the dot. Then 2 turned to 4am and then 5am and now he's waking up at 6am. Smith is only 12 weeks old and already sleeps ELEVEN HOURS A NIGHT. He falls asleep right at 7 and I don't hear a peep until 6 the next morning.

I wish I had advice on how to get your baby to sleep all night but I have none. Yes, there are courses you can take. Yes, there are sleep sacks and sleep suits and swaddles and all that jazz. Yes, you can hire a sleep coach. I'm sure all those things work for some people...but for the Sasses, it's just been luck of the draw with our babies. One thing I do is keep the babies out in the loud bright house for naps so they aren't getting a really good nap in during the day but at night its dark, its quiet and calm. And truthfully that's all I do and the only thing I can really think of that might be the reason. 5 kids=a lot of noise. But again, Kamryn was my first and she slept great and things were very quiet back then being just the 3 of us so who knows?

But, having my 5th baby and not really ever feeling super sleep deprived.....what a blessing!!

Way to go Smith!!!