Healthy Sleep Habits

Alex wasn't sleeping much...I guess it was around 6 weeks or so. I'm not exactly sure. From that point on I got obsessed about his sleeping and how important naps were. My OB recommended this book to me. "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" by Dr. Marc Weissbluth. It helped me a ton. I couldn't even put it down at first. It pretty much says that babies have periods of wakefulness 1-2 hrs long. After that you should see signs of tiredness. I started looking for them and I definitely saw them. Mostly at the beginning his sign was fussiness. If he fussed we put him to bed and he went to sleep on his own. Sometimes (and he still does) he will just lay in his crib and play and talk to himself and then go to sleep after 30 min. to an hour. Then it got to be if he rubbed his eyes or put his head down we put him down. I have a champion sleeper! I also think God blessed me because he knew I didn't have such an easy time physically after Alex was born and he cut me a break. :) I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a child, no matter what age. It has suggestions for all ages. Now we did let him cry it out some but it was just like Dr. Weissbluth said after just a few nights it was all over. At 9 weeks he slept from 7pm to 7am and he hasn't had any problems since then. Now I know after I post this he won't sleep for a week, but I'll take my chances. I hope this book helps someone else out there who may need it. Happy Sleeping!