Sleep

Don't know if we are lucky or what, but for the past couple of days, Adrian had been sleeping between 5 to 6 hours straight at nights!

What we did was during the day, we bring him downstairs and just stay downstairs whether he's asleep or awake. We let him wear normal clothes and don't swaddle him. The feeding right before bedtime, we would change him to a more comfortable clothes and swaddle him tightly after diaper change. And, we will feed him and put him in his Snuggle Nest, the bed that we just bought to put between me and Steven. Last night, because we sort of messed up the feeding during the day, his last feeding was around midnight. After that feeding, he went to sleep and didn't wake up until 5:30am. And, we fed him again and he slept until 10am. This is not bad at all! It's definitely better than waking up every 2 or 3 hours! Although, I still have to do that because I need to pump. But, since yesterday, I had been trying to stretch the time between my pump, so I can start wean it. I remember Cassandra started to sleep 6 to 7 hours straight at night when she was about 6-week old. Adrian is only 1-week! Hmm...let's cross my fingers and hope it's not a one or two days thing. I will definitely update on his sleep pattern in the next few days or so.

As far as me concern, I decided to quit my pumping. Yes, it's early. But, I am really hating it every minute and second of it. And, I want to wean it before Steven goes back to work next Monday. I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night to pump and then may be wake up an hour or so later to feed him since we don't want to wake him up at night time just to feed. And, may be wake up again if Cassandra calls me for bad dream or something else in the middle of the night. I know my mom will be around, but I know I will be waking up anyway. So, I am hoping that I can wean before next Monday. I will be starting to use cabbage leave today and hope that will work. I remember I used that last time with Cassandra, but my dad also had bought me some Chinese herb medicine. I don't have any ways to get that now, so I guess I will see how this cabbage leave method will work or not.