WOW!!!

Well the scales were very kind to Ian as he gained another 2.5 oz yesterday. That means he gained 4 ounces in 2 days. WOW! I am putting the baby scale away in his closet. I thought maybe I'll weigh him once a month, but Paul thinks that's not often enough. Nadia was only weighed every two months at the doctor's office. Well I plan to wait at least a week, and I'm thinking 2 weeks sounds even better. I don't want another day like Saturday where I felt like crying most of the day as I thought that my baby wasn't gaining any weight whatsoever since it stayed the same from Tuesday morning through Saturday morning.

Ian's first stretch was only a little more than 3 hours long. Sigh. I have decided not to keep working so hard to stay up until 10pm. I think I'll just aim to stay up until 9pm as I'm still getting up at 1am even with a later bedtime. The good news is that he went down easily two more times. That was a relief. I can handle getting up more often if at least I'm only up say 75 minutes at the most. When I'm up 90-120 minutes for each feeding it's a much rougher night. He spent about 6 1/2 hours in the Nap Nanny, but that translated to about 5.5 hours that I was in bed because #1 I spend time after each putting him down popping in his pacifier or doing other things to help him get to sleep and #2 Nadia woke up before he did. Again. Ugh. Also, I am experiencing a very mild version of insomnia. This happened to me when Nadia was little also. In both cases after several weeks of sleep deprivation, even though I am very, very tired I have a hard time falling asleep quickly. It's the hardest when I try to take naps at random points in the day. I think in part my body has a hard time going to sleep based upon Ian & Nadia's schedule rather than my own body's needs. Also, it's hard to be up so much and keep going back to sleep quickly. When I go to the bathroom throughout the night I don't even turn on the bathroom light. I try to do everything I can to make it so I can get to sleep immediately. That doesn't happen when I'm nursing, changing diapers, etc. in the middle of the night. Well Ian is almost 3 months old so I am hoping the worst will be over within the next month or so. I keep telling myself I should be past the half-way mark in terms of the nights where I am getting less than 6 hours of sleep on average. I would be thrilled with a 5 or 6 hour stretch tonight, but even a 4.5 hour one would be an improvement!