She did it!!! Natalie slept the entire night Thursday night. Kaija and Josh think they have found the solution to getting her to sleep through the night. Before, in the evenings, Josh would bottle feed Natalie before they would put her down for the night. After eating, her eyes would be as wide as saucers and it would be difficult to get her to fall asleep. She would then proceed to wake up around 4:30am in the morning. Fortunately, she would fall right back to sleep after feeding but, our feelings were, if we could just make it through the entire night.
Thursday night may have been the break we needed. We decided to bottle feed earlier in the night and let Kaija breast feed before putting Natalie down. The result, 9 hours of straight sleep. That's right, 9 straight hours of sleep. It was fantastic to say the least. Our guess is that she enjoys the closeness and warmth of being close to Kaija during feedings and that she has to work harder to get the milk, thus exhausting her. Who knows, maybe last night will prove to be an anomaly, however, we are pretty confident this is all she needed.
In other news, Grandma and Grandpa J are coming up to visit for Labor day weekend. It will be nice that they will be able to stay an extra day with the Holiday.
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