On sleeping

We have been pretty lucky in the sleep department with Grayson.  He is a kiddo who likes his sleep and never really had his days and nights confused.  When his pediatrician gave us the green light to let him wake us up for feedings, instead of us making him eat every three hours, he started sleeping for a good 5-6 hours at a time.  Right around the time I went back to work, he was sleeping through the night from about 9 at night to 5 or 6 in the morning.  Of course, there is always the one-off night here and there where he doesn't do so well.

Gray doesn't sleep quite as well when he is sick.  When he has been congested, he usually wakes up once during the night, but a quick bottle along with cuddles usually puts him right back to sleep.  Occasionally he calls for a brisk 'elephant march' across the bedroom floor in order to get back to sleep.  His sleep also suffers when we lay him down somewhere other than his crib.  When we were in Dallas, we had a really hard time getting him to sleep in the pack-and-play, but we also experienced trouble getting him to nap at daycare for a while, too.  I can finally say that he takes 2 hour naps at school now, so I am grateful for that. 

We swaddled Grayson nightly until he was a little over 6 months old.  He had been breaking out of his swaddle every night for quite some time, and we finally decided that since he appeared to be moving so much more in his sleep, we'd just put him in a sleep sack instead.  He usually turns onto his side the minute that we put him in his crib, and then during the night he usually flip flops from his back to his stomach.  We were hesitant to stop swaddling him because we thought that it was helping him to sleep longer, but I think he has been sleeping pretty well without it.  Until...

Over the last 4 or 5 nights Grayson has woken up at least once in the middle of the night.  I can't decide if we are regressing, or if it is due to the teeth he has sprouted.  (Two on top! and it looks like one on bottom is getting ready to come through as well)  We were up at 2 o'clock two nights in a row, then we got one full night's sleep (he woke up at 5 on Sunday, and that's still no fun), then the last two nights he has been up at 3:30 and 4:30.  The last two nights have been even more odd because he just wakes up and makes babbling noises for a while before it escalates into crying.  I am hoping that it's just a fluke, but if this continues for the rest of the week, I may have to start investigating baby sleeping patterns/sleep training.