Sleeping

Due to my pumping and us bottle feeding from practically day one, Toshi has been able to help out in the middle of the night. This has made a huge difference in the amount of sleep we are able to get - I'm getting a lot more than if I was solely breastfeeding and he, of course, is getting less. However, we have a system worked out where Toshi takes feedings until 2am and I take the ones after. Since Mariko's feedings were getting farther apart, and because they always seemed to be farthest apart before 2am, we  decided we would try and alternate. Toshi would do the first one and then I would do the second one and pump, he would do the third and I then I would get up with her in the morning. This worked out much better since pumping means that I get a half hour or so less sleep after feeding her since pumping is like doing double duty.

Well, as of Thursday night Mariko has been waking up way less. Thursday night she ate about 6:45 and went down about 7:30. Toshi swaddled her, read to her and put her down. She slept until 1:15! Then she slept again until about 6:30. After I fed her she slept about an hour, Toshi grabbed her and she slept on him until 10. Amazing! Last night she didn't go down until almost 9 but then didn't wake until nearly 2:30 and then not again until nearly 7 (with the last half hour or so sleeping on Toshi). Can you tell that Toshi likes to snuggle with her in the morning? We can only hope that this will continue so that we will continue to get more sleep!!!

This morning we are off to our first playdate, although the kid we are meeting is just a year old so it's a bit different. A friend of mine from my second Starbucks has a kid and we are meeting for some lunch at the mall today. We were going to picnic but the weather is crappy so that's not going to happen. It will be nice to have a little outing though since with how horrible the weather is we probably wouldn't leave the house otherwise.

On another note I am wearing many non-maternity clothes these days! I had to go out and buy pants and some shirts but some of my old stuff fits and I'm going to continue to go through things to see what else might fit. Also in my looking through old clothes I found things I will likely never wear again due to them not fitting in some way or another. I'm going to hold on to them and learn to sew. I'm going to turn them in to clothes for Mariko.

Ok, time to grab some breakfast and hopefully a shower while she's down for her nap!