He did it!

Usually one of the first things people ask us is "How is Levi sleeping?" "Is he sleeping through the night?" I think it's funny that it's such a common question. I guess it makes sense because, really, the only thing infants really do is eat, sleep, and poop. I guess it's not really fun thing to ask, "how many diapers do you go through in a day? or "what does his poop look like these days?" I guess it makes sense to discuss a baby's sleep habits as one of the most difficult things for a new parent to adjust to (especially the nursing mother) is their new sleepless life.

Last night on the eve of his Seven-Week-Birthday, Levi officially "Slept Through The Night"! (aka "sttn" to blogging moms ;-) ) Levi slept for 7.5 hours straight!! We put him down for the night at 10:45pm and he didn't wake up until 6:15am. The extremely ironic part of it was that the night before I prepared a bottle of pumped milk because Dustin offered to do a night feeding for me to allow me to get some much-needed sleep. How does it figure that it was THAT same night Levi doesn't have a middle-of-the-night feeding?! Figures. Dustin did do that 6:15am feeding allowing me to sleep even more. However, I could only sleep for a couple more hours because of the extreme pain from engorgement--my first of such an experience! Funny, but those early morning dreams consisted of dreams of feeling like I had to find a breast pump, but none was to be found as well as the need to nurse, but Levi nowhere to be found! :-) I had to pump both before and after feeding Levi and got a total of 6.5 ounces!

Levi has actually been doing fantastically at night, going down relatively easily and sleeping consistently 4-5 hours at a time. I definitely can't complain about that! But 7.5 hours?? Hallelujah! Will he repeat such a wonderful night? We'll see . . .