Another almost-sleepless night
Written by jlz on April 21, 2006 – 10:37 am -Another night has gone by. anZel is now 3 days and 3.5 hours young. It was another somewhat tough night. Not as bad as the first night but we still didn’t get much sleep.
After feeding, it was hard to get anZel to go to sleep. It’s too quiet or something. During the day yesterday, I had discovered the power of the kitchen vent fan. Putting anZel underneath the vent with the fan on high, he was able to calm down and sleep the whole time.
It kind of worked last night as well. At around 2AM, when he wouldn’t sleep, I put him in this same position and he was able to sleep until he got hungry.
While he was sleeping under the fan, I recorded the fan noise using macsoul2 and burned it onto a CD. I was hoping that I can play that using a CD player by his crib and keep him asleep after feeding.
Sigh, how wrong was I! After leaving him in the crib for 5 mins, he started crying again, even with the recorded fan noise is going on!
So for the whole night, I had to hold him next to me so he and I can both get some sleep. Amazingly, we slept for 5 hours!!!
Actually I kind of feel guilty about that since he’s supposed to be fed every 2-3 hours.
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