We also started sleeping Parker in his nursery last weekend. On Saturday night we slept in the guest room next to his room just in case he was fussy (we didn't want to be going up and down the stairs all night!). He slept just fine though and only woke up once at about 3 am to feed. We started him on a more regular schedule (following "On Babywise" roughly - see link to the right for Chronicles of a Babywise Mom - AMAZING blog) with him waking up at 7am for the day, eating every 3 hours, taking a nap 1 hour after eating, then going to bed right after the 7pm feeding. He does get one "dreamfeed" at 10 or 11pm to help hold him over through the night. I realized we can work towards dropping the 2-3am feeding and get to sleeping through the night because he wasn't eating very much when he woke up at 7. So since he doesn't really need the feeding in the middle of the night, we have been weaning him off of it. The past 2 nights he has gone from the dreamfeed until about 5:45! At thatt point we just gave him an ounce or two then popped the pacifier in his mouth to hold him over to the 7am feeding. We should be sleeping through the night soon!!
Tummy time has been very productive lately! I was worried because he wasn't very active when we would put him on his tummy, but this past weekend he kicked it into high gear! He turns his head back and forth repeatedly and he is even lifting up his head. Most of the time he lifts it to about a 45 degree angle, but yesterday he pushed up on his hands and lifted it so high he could look at me - just amazing! He is so strong...
Today when I picked Parker up from Mom and Dad's house, they had him in the Boppy with a blanket and he looked like he was missing the lower half of his body! Too funny - had to take a picture.
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