I'm probably going to jinx myself by sharing this, but Oliver slept through the night last night (and I'm not talking the technical 5 hour definition)! And, no sleep screaming!
He went to bed last night at 10 p.m. like normal after eating at 9:30. He started fussing a little bit at around 2:30, and I decided to just give him his pacifier because he wasn't really awake. At one point, we had him sleeping until 3:30 or 4 before wanting to eat. I was hoping to get him back to that, but I got even better!
At about 4:30 he started fussing again and Kevin woke up to get him. He apparently thought that I had already fed Oliver, so he just gave him a pacifier, too. Oliver fell asleep. Kevin and I didn't, though, and we decided to wake him up at 5 to see how he would do on the schedule that he will be on when I go back to work (in less than a month, now).
We woke Oliver up at 5 to eat. I fed him and he immediately fell back asleep, so I put him back in his crib and was able to get a shower, eat breakfast, start laundry, and take a little nap before he woke up for the day at 8. I'm hoping that this new process will work for Oliver and he will do it more often.
There were no sleep screams during this process either, so Kevin and I think we may have figured out what caused it. We may have been overfeeding Oliver at night causing his belly to get upset. When he would start stirring at 2, I just assumed that he was hungry, but it may just have been his normal sleep rhythm. So, I think that we will try to soothe with the pacifier first, and if he continues to fuss, then we'll feed him. Hopefully that will work.
