Sleep rollercoaster

It's been 3 weeks since I posted about Sierra's first time ever sleeping through the whole night. I haven't wanted to say anything since then for fear that I would jinx myself, but now enough time (and enough "good nights") has passed that I'm willing to say, "I think we may have turned a page with Sierra's sleep."

Now, don't get me wrong, not every night since that one has been awesome. In fact, the very next day after I posted that, Sierra had an absolutely horrid night of sleeping, and consequently, so did we. Two night ago, we put her to bed around 8:30 and she woke up at 12:30. I waited to see if she would go back to sleep. Twenty-five minutes later she was still awake, screaming and crying, and jumping up and down in her bed, so I went and got her. Comforted her, read her a story, and finally made it back to bed myself when the clock was closer to 2am than it was to 1am. Sigh.

Then we come to last night. Jason put Sierra to bed around 8, read to her, and she was asleep by 8:30. I went to bed around 11, and shortly thereafter heard her stir/fuss in her room. But she didn't fully wake, she didn't scream and cry, and she wasn't jumping and down in her crib. She settled back into sleep and we didn't hear from her again until about 6:15 this morning when we were both standing in the kitchen (me getting ready to head to the gym, Jason getting ready to start his day).

More and more regularly, we are putting Sierra to sleep around 8-8:30, and she is sleeping through until 5:30am. At that point, Jason or I will go get her, I nurse her and she dozes for another hour to hour-and-a-half. Now if I could just get myself to bed earlier, maybe I wouldn't feel so tired all the time. (or maybe that has something to do with the fact that I'm growing a human)