Have I mentioned we upgraded to a King size bed? It is heavenly.
Space for all three of us and then some. Except Benjamin and I keep finding ourselves laying inches from the edge, stiff as a board, with an ocean of space between us. Old habits. Jax can even lay completely sideways in the middle of the night and you almost can't feel his feet kicking you over and over again.
Speaking of sleep, Jax has been doing SO WELL. He no longer nurses in the middle of the night, at least until 5am when he comes into our bed. He nurses to sleep at seven thirty, asleep by eight, and doesn't nurse again until five.
Over the course of a week, he will sleep one or two nights straight through from 8pm (bedtime) to 5am. He will sleep one or two nights from 8pm to 5pm with only one waking (at a totally random time, could be 10pm or 2am). And one or two nights with two wakings. About half of those wakings, he will go back to sleep on his own. The other half, he is really wailing, and I feel he needs a bit of help. I go in, pick him up, hug him, sway a bit until he calms down, then put him back in his crib. Pat his back a minute or so, then leave the room. This entire ordeal takes five minutes or less. Sometimes he doesn't cry when I leave. Other times he cries. If he cries, I don't go back in. He stops crying in five minutes or so, then goes to sleep.
He comes into bed with us at five (or just me on weekdays, since Benjamin gets up for work at that hour). He nurses, and goes back to sleep for another hour or two, nurses some more, back to sleep. We sleep in together until seven thirty or eight, some days, nine (delight!).
I'm so happy. So happy that he is sleeping better; so happy that I am sleeping better. I'm getting ten hours or sleep most nights, with about seven of that straight through before he wakes.
And even though we have a King size bed, most of the time when Jax is in bed with us, he wants to be right next to me. Often he'll fall asleep with his head cuddling next to my shoulder. I can't describe how much I love this. It is so comforting to me, feels so safe and secure and peaceful, to have him close by. When we're all together, it's even better (as long as Jax and I can sleep through Benjamin's snores!).
