May 21, 2000 - Sunday
With maturity beyond his years - or months, Harry slept in both yesterday and this morning. Usually, he'll wake up for milk sometime between 5:30 and 6:30, much to his mother's chagrin, but Saturday he slept past 8:00am and today past 7:30am. It's, of course, hard to know what that means for his long term schedule, and it did throw the timing off for his meals and sleeping the rest of both days, but it was nice to not be woken up early.

More interestingly to me, however, I did hear Harry stir in his crib in the very early hours of both Friday and Saturday mornings. He even made a few vocal sounds. But, somehow he didn't seem committed and, remembering something I read about parents actually disrupting their babies slept by getting them up at any hint of movement and with the early more comfort of a warm bed, I physically discouraged his mother from getting up. She happily obliged and, wouldn't you know, Harry quickly fell back to sleep on both occasions.

All of that leads to the theory that it may be time for us to move Harry's crib into the next room (the room that would have been the nursery if we were to live here for much longer). The same book referenced above suggested that moving a baby's crib out of the parents bedroom often betters sleep for all concerned. It's possible, I suppose, that Harry's mother's attentiveness all these early morning hours was unnecessarily waking both her and Harry. I tend to think not, however, and that it has been necessary. But, perhaps now is the time to take the next step.


Comments, opinions?