Sleeping Through

Lil Isaac is 9 weeks and 3 days old today. He is so different from Lil Shauna when it comes to sleeping habits. At 10 weeks old, Lil Shauna still wakes up for milk 2x a night but Lil Isaac appears to have slept through last night after his last feed at 9pm. This morning, I woke him up at 5.30 to feed and he is back to lala land.

Don't ask me how I do it bcos I didn't do anything. In fact, Mummy S has been telling me to stop waking him up for milk if he doesn't and let nature takes it's course. Then things will be easier when I go back to work. But I keep worrying that Lil Isaac is not drinking enuff and since I have to wake up to express anyway if he doesn't drink. And I also worry about him waking up for milk right after I express and he gets no milk even though I have been assured by different mummies that we are wonderful milking machines and will keep producing milk. The babies are also supreme pumps and can draw milk right after we have expressed. I also keep feeling that he is too still young to be sleeping through. Maybe I am comparing him with his jiejie when I know there should be no basis for comparison. One is a preemie and the other an overstayer. I know I am the envy of mummies whose babies are still waking up 3 hourly for milk. :p nevertheless, these truths don't do much to settle me.

So, now when I do wake up to express, I have to resist the urge to wake Lil Isaac up to feed. But I will usually express right before I sleep and sleep until Lil Isaac cries for me. The method works well for the past few nights and Lil Isaac woke up once in the night for milk. I did the same last night and Lil Isaac actually slept through.

Lil Shauna woke me up at 3am and I had to resist waking Lil Isaac for feed. I was also too lazy to wake up to express. She woke me up at 5+am and I could not resist this time. I woke him to latch and expressed thereafter.

So Lil Isaac has slept through. He may have slept through on earlier nights too if I have not woke him up. Still, last night was the historical moment. Strangely, I am not overjoyed. He is still a baby! He needs my milk! But I have to agree that he is growing well, developing thunder thighs and butt. Hohoho.

Mummy Lim