A good night's sleep

We had a fairly stressful day yesterday, venturing to Indooroopilly Shoppingtown on our own. It didn't quite go to plan and everytime I went into a store, Ollie would crack it.

Things got better in the evening when Ollie got to have a long Skype chat with his grandma Carmel in Qatar. After he had a feed around 8pm, we put him down in his cot and he went straight off to sleep.

I woke up at 3.55 am and freaked out that he hadn't woken up for his 1am-ish feed. I bolted into his room to make sure he was okay - of course he was. He wiggled for a minute and then went straight back to sleep. I kept checking on him for the next half an hour and he eventually woke up for a feed, but I suspect that he might have slept even longer if I hadn't kept going into his room. To make it even better, he went straight back to sleep after his feed and slept through the early morning hours that have recently seen us walking the floor with him.

Today he continues to be wonderful. I put him down for a nap around 8.30 after wrapping him up and putting on his favourite Led Zeppelin lullabies and without any fuss he was asleep within a minute.

Am I speaking too soon? Will we be up all night tonight with a screaming baby?

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