My 12 week old baby is sleeping... well... Like a baby :)

Here's an update to those who have been following my blog for tips about getting a baby to sleep through the night.

At about 1 month I wrote a post giving advice to a parent of a 10 week old who was not able to sleep and was keeping his parents up all night. Now at the time I duly noted that it might not be fair for somone with a four week old to give advice to wone with a 10 week old. I can just imagine that father saying... you just wait a couple of weeks and see how well he sleeps.

Well, it's been a few weeks and my son is now 12 weeks. So I'm doing a quick follow up to let other parents know that the advice in my previous post is not rubish.

I mentioned that I did not have the 8 hours of sleep magic bullet for him, but guess what. My 12 week old son can now sleep for 8 hours at a time. He goes to bed about 8pm and he only wakes for one feeding and changing during the night at about 4am. He then goes quickly back to sleep until a reasonable 8am (although today he slept in with mom until about 10am... wow). I guess I really tuckered him out yesterday.

As new parents, my wife and I are quite pleased and happy to say to the 10 week old parents out there that if you start to give your kid a floor time workout... you'll not only tire them out so they sleep well through the night, but you'll also be developing your child physically and mentally which leads to social and emotional growth as well. (see comment on my previous post about sleep to see another parent who had similar success and can attest that years later her child is performing great and above and beyond the norm).

And a last bit of data on the subject. We recently moved cross country, so that means a new pediatrician and a new set of nurses who never seen him before. Everybody comments on how strong he is, how alert he is, how healthy he is and how they don't normally see these signs of early development for a few more months.

He's just about to crawl at this point and moves around quite a bit at night. We can here him at night pushing buttons on the light and sound effect toys even though we didn't put him anywhere near them. He's learning cause and effect, and getting smarter every day!

Here's some fun photos of him playing with a Tortoise and a turtle given to him by a great friend and mentor. We put velcro on the back of the Tortoise and on the belly of the turtle and played with him teaching the difference between rough and soft textures. It was quite fun and I was able to show rough and soft on the velcro as well as soft on the turtle, soft on my sons face and rough on daddy's face. My face is rougher than the velcro and you should have seen his eyes light up when I said rough and grazed his hands across my face.

Anway... here are the pics and having some fun!



Learning Soft & Rough with Velcro Buddies

Tummy Time with Pals - what a good little floor baby!

Turtle Passes the Taste Test During a Break









He loves his turtle