Sleeping through the night, the addition of breakfast
Morgan’s illness has certainly been the focus of our week, but it might be worth mentioning a couple of other things that have been going on.
As threatened, Jim and I have been working on transitioning Morgan out of the wedge for sleeping. One, she can overcome the wedge without too much effort, so its effectiveness was becoming questionable. Two, it seems to have served its purpose, as her head is in pretty good shape these days. And three, we think that waking up constrained by the wedge was beginning to disrupt her sleep. So the past several days/nights she’s been napping and sleeping at night without the wedge. And the past two nights she hasn’t nursed at all between 9pm and 6am, which is a welcome shift. Without the wedge she really does get around in the crib while sleeping. You’d think she was doing laps! (I was worried that she’d end up stuck on her stomach several times a night. While it did happen a few times early on, it turns out she quickly got the hang of flipping herself back onto her back.)
Also as threatened, we’ve started feeding her solids for breakfast. She’s up to 3 meals a day now.