Lucky? Or Twice blessed...

Our first week with Selah and Charis together has been a blast. We heard from so many people that we really got lucky with Charis as she was sleeping through the night at 8 weeks and on a regular parent directed schedule of eating every 3 hours. She never cried too much, slept really well, and even early on allowed Moriah and I to sleep for long periods of time. Everyone said, "That's the first one. Just wait 'til your second and things will be different. You got lucky with this one." Well, we are still waiting. Maybe number 3 will be the hard one, but I doubt it. Last night Moriah and I both got 8 hours of sleep. Granted they weren't continuous, but they were long and very restful. We went to bed at around 11:30pm during Selah's last feeding. I stayed up with her after she cried a bit to get her to calm down. She drifted off at around 12:15pm. Moriah had already been sleeping for an hour by then. I brought her back into the room a little after 1pm (once my Bond movie was done), and laid down myself. Selah slept until 3:30pm. Then Moriah fed her and everyone was back asleep within the hour. We figured, hey, she'll be up in a few hours so no need to set an alarm. The next thing we know, we hear Charis talking in the next room. As we glance at the clock, we see 8:45 staring back at us. Selah awoke peacefully and ate at 9 as I hurried to get into work.

I don't know if every night will be like that, but we are thankful for our little one who lets us sleep. So, for those of you who say we got lucky again and it isn't fair, I say don't chalk it up to luck, chalk it up to good parenting and a good God smiling on us. As we guide our children with the principles we've learned from our parenting class and Babywise, we've seen great progress that makes us wonder just how people can do the "On-demand" feeding. If that works for you and you enjoy being at the beckon call of your kids, more power to you. Personally, I'd rather sleep in. More to come later...