Sweet Dreams...

Ah, the most common topic of conversation for parents of
baby. Cami is finally in a sleep routine (more or less). During
the day, she will take three naps, at 9 am, 12 pm, and 4 pm. This is typical
for her age. At five months of age, we have started putting Cami in her crib to sleep, which was an easy transition to make.

Cami is a much different sleeper than Mady was at this age. Both girls
went to sleep about the same time each night (at five months of age), this
being between 7:30 and 8:00 pm at night. However, Mady stayed asleep for five or six hours straight and then awoke at 1:00 am and every two hours after that.
On the other hand, at five months, Cami was waking frequently after she went to bed and then finally stayed asleep around 10 or 11 pm. She usually only woke one time after that, around 2 or 3 in the morning. I will nurse her when she wakes up
and she will usually go back to sleep for the rest of the night. It’s so funny
how their sleep schedules could be so differently. However, as all parents
know, nothing stays the same for long. Since turning six months old, she has gotten much better about staying asleep when we first put her down. Generally, she only wakes once to eat during the night.

Cameron has not been the pacifier junky that Mady once was.
In fact, she has shown very little interest in using one. I have been hoping
that she would take to the pacifier so that it would serve as a good substitute
for me as her soothing device. It took several weeks (and three different
styles of pacifiers) before Cameron would even suck on a pacifier, but she
finally will accept one of them, only when she is really tired (like in the
evenings, when she is trying to go to sleep at night.) Even though she will
only use the pacifier sparingly, it does provide a little relief for me so that
I don’t have to nurse her to sleep…of course, some days, she still wants
nothing to do with the pacifier. Sigh…