Maybe this will be my last post on sleep..... :) but probably not!

So, I blog a lot about sleep. I posted about how great Kayden was at sleeping when we first brought him home, and I've posted about the struggles we now have with getting him to fall asleep on his own and in his crib. I've struggled A LOT with the cry it out method. It breaks my heart to listen to him cry for over an hour. I have been scared that he thinks that his mommy doesn't love him because he is just laying in this room all by himself screaming and no one is coming to get him. I would do it a night or two, and then give up.

I told myself that when he was rolling over, we would see if that would help since he seems to like to sleep on his stomach. Well, as I have blogged, rolling over is not going over well with us and at this rate, I'm not sure if he will roll over consistently and to where I am comfortable leaving him on his belly for a very long time. I then was all like "well when he is 8 months old we will do the sleep training again" What was so magical about 8 months, I don't know. For some reason I felt like at 8 months he would understand more of what I was saying to him and that way I could tell him I loved him, but he needs to learn how to sleep on his own. I mean... really... what 8 month old really understands that?!

Last night, however, I had a breaking point. Kayden was SCREAMING bloody murder. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. I think some of it was the fact that he was over tired because he never really took a nap after 4 and he usually has around an hour nap at 6. While I was rocking him, for some reason, I just lost it. I felt like a horrible mother because my child couldn't fall asleep on his own, he couldn't roll over, he was over tired, and there were many other things that were going through my mind at that point but I can't even remember them because they were THAT stupid. But anyways. Last night I decided that we really needed to try this whole sleep training again. It was all or nothing this time. He has GOT to learn how to sleep on his own. He will NOT remember laying in his crib screaming until he falls asleep. This WILL set him up for success in the future. I never expressed this to Nick though, because I was scared he would hold me accountable for it and I would actually have to go through with it if I told him. There have been many nights where I would say, tomorrow night, we are doing sleep training again... and that night would roll around and I wouldn't do it.

Tonight however, I looked around the house at the stack of coupons that needed to be cut out, the dishes that needed to be cleaned and put away, the laundry piled up high, the baby food that needed to be made (which is yet ANOTHER blog post... but i'll save that one for another day), the floors that needed to be swept, and on and on the list grew. I can't ever get anything done because when Kayden is awake I want to be playing with him and when he is asleep I have to be holding him. So I decided I was going to do it. Nick wasn't even home at the time that I decided I was going to do it. I had given Kayden a bottle at 6:30 and at 7:30 he was starting to get tired so I gave him a bath, lotioned him up, read him a book, cuddled with him for just a little bit, and then laid him down in the big scary crib! And of course he screamed, and screamed, and screamed, and continued to scream. I just kept myself busy with clipping coupons and thinking about how I needed to get this stuff done. I told myself that if I finished everything that I needed to get done, and he was still crying, I would go get him (which... there was NO WAY i could finish my list.. but it made me feel better :) ). Finally, after an hour and a half the screaming started to subside and then he went to sleep. Of course, it had then been 3 hours since the last time he ate so he only stayed asleep for 30 minutes. I was all ready for this to be a complete failure. I was going to wait for him to wake up and then feed him and try to lay him back down but the second time around has always been a lot tougher on me and that is usually when he ends up back in our bed. Luckily, we had started so early that this bottle was at 10 when I was still up so I fixed him a bottle and fed him. Then went and laid him back down. He of course started screaming but this time around, it lasted 5 minutes. 5 MINUTES!!!! trust me, I was shocked. I then was all like yeah, he's going to just wake up 30 minutes later and won't go back to sleep. Well it's been an hour since he has gone down and he is still asleep. I'm sure he will wake up several times tonight, but I'm hoping that I can stick to my guns throughout the night. I'm going to just try and feed him and put him back down in his crib. He usually sleeps from 11-8 straight through the night, but that's usually with me waking up several times throughout the night and putting his paci back in when he starts to stir. Obviously in my bed it wasn't that big of a deal, but when he is in his crib it's going to be a bigger deal :)

In the past when I have let him cry it out, we have always let him cry for about 15 minutes and then would go in there and give him his paci again and then leave. While i feel like this was reassuring to him (or more myself) it PISSED HIM OFF. So tonight, I decided that I was not going to go back in there at all to put his paci back in. Hopefully, with him learning how to fall asleep without his paci, it will help in the middle of the night. We will see. To be honest, i'm just glad that we have made it this far tonight. I feel like every little step helps.

Updates on... Everything!

Torticollis-
We have been going to physical therapy once a week ever since we found out he had torticollis. Kayden has responded really well to physical therapy. Ms. Kelly works on stretching out his neck muscles and also works with developmental milestones that he should be reaching.
Kayden can freely look from side to side now, before he would only look to his right because the muscle was so tight he couldn't turn his head the other way. We are still stretching the muscles but for the most part that part of the torticollis is fixed. We are still working on the tilt part though. He still tilts his head a little and still holds his head down rather than lifting it up. He has a hard time holding it up for long periods such as when you put him on his belly and have him push himself up. I also noticed this weekend that he has started to hold himself up a lot longer than he use to. One of the exercises we do to help this is roll him on his right side and hold toys above his head so that he will look up. This is an exercise that is a battle for us because he HATES doing it.
There is no word as to when they think he can stop physical therapy. I think we will probably be going for a while, which is fine by me. I really like having them work on different stuff with him and then showing me what to do. I think they will do another evaluation of him sometime in March, but I'm not sure.

Sleeping-
We are still having issues with sleeping. I have had a very hard time doing the cry it out method. I know many people who have done the cry it out method and it has worked very easily for them. We've had a struggle with it though. Kayden just screams and screams bloody murder. It's not the "i'm just tired so i'll whine a little bit", it's a full out scream which I am having a hard time dealing with. I hate the thought of him laying in his crib all by himself screaming, not knowing if I'm going to come get him or not. We've decided for the time being to let him continue sleeping with us until about 8 months, in May, and then work on sleep training again. I know it will be harder, but I feel like at that age he will have a little bit more of an understanding when we talk to him and it will be easier to do a gradual weaning of sorts. I've read several different things about sitting next to the crib and each night getting further and further away from the crib, etc. We will see. I know he will get it eventually and I'm willing to wait. Sleeping through the night has gotten a lot better though. We usually try to give him a bath around 8:30-9 (or an hour after his bottle that is around 7:30ish.) He will then usually sleep until 11-1130 when we give him another bottle. If he doesn't wake up for this bottle, we usually wake him up so that he isn't waking us up in the middle of the night. After we give him this bottle, he will (most of the time) sleep until 7ish. At this time he will take another bottle and a lot of times go back to sleep until 9. If by 6 months he hasn't cut out his 11 bottle we will start cutting it out. We usually put the rice in his 9 o clock bottle but if we don't wake up around 1130 he will eventually wake us up at 2:30. We are finally back to taking naps in our swing also. Kayden took about a 3 month hiatus from his swing where he wasn't a fan of the swing. Luckily, I can now put him in his swing and he will take a nap so that I don't have to hold him through the whole nap time.

Milestones-
Kayden laughs ALL.THE.TIME. We can always do something to make him laugh and I love it! We are finally getting to where we can get him to roll from back to belly pretty consistently.Due to his neck he has had a lot of trouble rolling over. You have to use your neck muscles in order to turn your head when you roll and to reach your arm across your body to get up the momentum to roll, which is what he is struggling with. He has rolled over twice about a month ago but we have had a hard time getting him to do it again. This past weekend he has rolled over multiple times but you can tell he still really has to work at it and we have to really motivate him with toys in order to get him to do it. He has been doing it continuously though and we don't have to physically help him anymore. Last week at physical therapy, Ms. Kelly only worked on rolling in hopes to get him to start rolling more often. It seems to be working so far. I feel like I can say confidently that we have rolling over now. Kayden's been sitting up for quite a while now, with assistance. He can sit up by himself for a little bit but falls either to the sides or backwards. He's getting there though!

Sleep Training night 3

After an hour of crying I gave in and went to go get the sweet boy. You could tell the poor baby's legs were hurting so he gets a little extra love tonight. I'm sure tomorrow night will be 20 times harder now but oh well. We will eventually get the hang of it.

Sleep Training... Again!

So a little while ago I posted about our sleep training events. Well, I quit after that night and waited until I talked to a friend of mine who has done sleep training with her daughter and was successful at it.

She came over last wednesday and gave me a book called "Sleeping through the night" by Jodi A. Mindell, Ph. D.. It was a very helpful book on sleep training and had much more information than the websites I was reading. It said to make bedtime the same time every night and do the bedtime routine the exact same way. Also, it said to go in and check on the baby as many times as you want, whenever you want but to try and resist the urge to pick him up. It went through what it called the "Basic Bedtime Method" which we followed. It went into detail about each step but the jist of it is the following:

step one: set bedtime -set bedtime for baby to go to bed. this is important to help set your baby's internal clock so that his body is accustomed to falling asleep at exactly the same time every day

step two: bedtime routine -babies relish routine. routine is essential to your child's being able to fall asleep easily and quickly. end of routine should be done in child's room.

step three: bedroom environment- establish a consistent bedroom environment so that when he wakes up in the middle of the night, the same thing is going on. positive sleep associations and negative sleep associations are big for this one. positive sleep associations are things that will always be there, negative are things that when he wakes up, they won't be there but were there when he fell asleep. (example: i play music on a cd player in his room of soft lullabies. i put it on repeat so that it is a positive association and will still be playing if he wakes up in the middle of the night. a negative association would be something like rocking a baby to sleep, etc.) make sure your child's bedroom is the same all the time when he is sleeping

step four: put down awake- this teaches them to soothe themselves and learn how to fall asleep on his own. "he will probably call for you, cry, or scream. Most likely he will do all three at once. Wait. then do a simple checking routine. Go back into your child's room. Tell him that it is okay. Tell him again that it is time for him to go to sleep. Pat him or touch him briefly if you wish. don't pick him up. don't cuddle him. be gentle but firm. remain fairly neutral and stay for a brief time, no more than one minute." make the visit boring.

Night one: we did our bedtime routine- bath, bottle, a story from his jesus storybook bible (love!), goodnight moon, and then cuddle time while singing jesus loves me. I rock him a little while we have cuddle time and have his music playing in the background. i enjoy just rocking him and getting him drowsy before putting him in his crib. I then laid him down (drowsy but awake) and of course the screaming began. The first night was rough. I cried and cried, and nick was the one that kept going in to calm him down. I kept going back and forth whether or not this was worth it, whether i was doing the right thing, whether i should just go get him and wait until he was older. but i stuck with it. eventually after an hour and a half he fell asleep. (i said if it last longer than two hours i was done). He woke back up at 12:30 and i fed him and let him sleep with us so he only spent 2 1/2 hours in there but when you compare it to 0 seconds in the crib, it's a step. And that's another reason I love the book so much because it has a section on "what to do if your child wakes during the night" and it said to do what you normally do. "if you usually take her to your bed, then do that. research has found that once a baby is falling asleep quickly and easily at bedtime, then she'll naturally start sleeping through the night in about two weeks."

Night one was on thursday night, and unfortunately friday night we were out really late at my mother in laws house. i attempted it but felt bad for trying to get him to sleep on his own since it wasn't the normal time and we really didn't even do much of the bedtime routine so i ended up just putting him in the bed with us.

Night one (again, since we screwed it up friday night and started over saturday night): Bedtime routine, laid him down, and he cried for about an hour with us going back in and calming him down. he eventually fell asleep while i was in there calming him down. i just laid my hand on his stomach and put some gentle pressure on it because i think he had some gas, and he fell asleep while i was in there (we try to get in and out in under 1 minute so that shows you how fast he fell asleep). he slept until 1, i fed him and then laid him back down in his crib since he was not very awake after eating his bottle and he fell right to sleep in his crib. he woke again at 3 crying and i knew he wasn't hungry so i tried to see if he would put him self back to sleep and waited 10 minutes. he didn't so i brought him back in the bed with us where he slept until 7:30.

night two: bedtime routine, laid him down and he cried for only 20 minutes. but it wasn't the really upset crying like it was the past nights. he would have periods of calm during crying this time where i could tell he was starting to soothe himself by staring at his hands and playing with his "lovey" (a small little blanket with a little bear head on it that we give him while he sleeps so that he associates that with sleep... another recommendation from the book). 30 minutes after i put him down, he was asleep and i only had to go in and comfort him 2 times, and then once more after he had fallen asleep but woke up screaming, yet again i think from gas. he quickly went right back to sleep though. we are still on night two tonight so i don't know how the night will go but my main concern is falling asleep in his crib.

Overall, I am very impressed and happy with the outcome. I do not mind him coming back into our room during the night and still waking up for a feeding because he is still on the small side for his age and he is still not eating as much as he should be for his age during the day so I want him to eat as much as he can and i enjoy having him in there and waking up to him in the mornings. i just really needed him to start going to sleep at a decent time and having some time for myself and my husband without having to hold a sleeping baby until we decide to go to sleep in our room.

The book also has a section on "nap training" but recommends waiting two weeks after beginning the sleep training at night before moving on to nap training so we will be waiting a little bit to do that. i'm looking forward to the day where i can lay kayden down in his crib for naps and making use of that time too!

This whole process i know will make kayden a much happier and well rested baby, which is what i had to keep telling myself through the hour long crying and screaming the other night. I did tell myself that if it was still taking an hour by night three and he was still screaming, i would quit. but he has calmed down by night two so we will be continuing the sleep training. I was concerned about Kayden getting the rest that he needed because i felt like he wasn't getting the sleep he needed in our room, and being able to put yourself to sleep is something that everyone needs to know how to do. the book said it best when it said "you have to teach a baby how to crawl and walk, sleeping is no different." while i am not a supporter of the "cry it out" method. i do support letting him cry for a little bit (i never went longer than 5 minutes) and calming him down and reassuring him that we were still here and that he is alright. He needed to learn how to soothe himself, and I think he is starting to get the hang of it.

It wasn't easy, and I cried a long with him, and prayed that God would make it easier quickly because I wasn't sure how long I could handle the crying. I also prayed constantly that if I was doing something wrong, then God would make it clear quickly that I was not doing the right thing. But after night two of sleep training, and making night two much easier than the first night, I think we are going in the right direction.

However, I would have started sleep training the week he is suppose to get his 4 months shots. Night three may be interesting. I'm dreading the 4 months shots tomorrow, but I am really excited to talk to the pediatrician about the improvement in Kayden's neck, see how much he has grown, and just overall ask the pediatrician some questions that I've had. Update will come :)

Sleep Training Night One

So, I decided to try sleep training. Since putting Kayden on formula I thought we should try this since he has had a much more pleasant demeanor, goes a little longer between feedings, and is also 3.5 months old. Everything I read said that you can start sleep training at 3 months so why not.

Unfortunately, it didn't go so well. Kayden screamed, and screamed, and screamed. I can't handle the screaming. After reading other things, I decided to try the "no-cry" approach because I just can't do the "cry it out". With this method, I put him down after our bed time routine, drowsy but awake. I left the room where he was content for a couple minutes. And then the screaming started. I went back in there patted his stomach to try and calm him down. Well, patting my child on his stomach doesn't exactly calm him down.... it actually pisses him off even more. So I left again to regroup and attempt the "calm down but not pick up" routine again. Finally after 30 minutes I picked him up, burped him, and laid him back down. To where we started it all over again. Another 30 minutes pass, I picked him up tried to burp him and put him back down. After an hour and a half I caved, picked him up and he went right to sleep. I rocked him for a little bit and then laid him back down. He slept for 20 minutes where he then again woke up. I tried again for a little while and then gave up. He went into our room where he slept from 11-4.

I am going to try again tonight but start everything a little earlier, at 7:30 rather than 8:30 and see if that helps at all. If not, I'm postponing the sleep training until the weekend. Nick has to get up at 4 in the morning and keeping him up with a screaming baby trying to do sleep training is just not fair to him.

While trying to read other things this morning, I came across this quote from Dr. Sears website that really helped me.

"An important fact for you to remember is that your baby's sleep habits are more a reflection of your baby's temperament rather than your style of nighttime parenting. And keep in mind that other parents usually exaggerate how long their baby sleeps, as if this were a badge of good parenting, which it isn't. It's not your fault baby wakes up."

This really helped because I felt like I was a terrible parent because my child can't put himself to sleep or sleep for long periods of time. It's not for lack of trying. We have tried a lot of different things but nothing is working. We are working on it... he just hasn't gotten it yet.

Separation Anxiety

(Yes Kayden turned 3 months old.... no this is not a blog post with pictures of his 3 month birthday or his 3 month letter... i will get to that later! :))

I'm not sure if a 3 month old can have separation anxiety. I have always heard that it starts around 6 months, maybe 4 or 5 months for the advanced child, but I feel 3 months is a little early. Especially since Kayden doesn't show signs of being "advanced" just "on target" (if any of that even makes sense!)

If it's not separation anxiety, it's the early stages of it. When we leave a room and he is left alone.. let the screaming begin. It takes him a little while to realize that we are gone, but once he does he lets out the most awful scream and cry. I've just started noticing it recently while I am getting ready or cleaning. If he can't see me, then we have a problem.

And I'm not really sure whether it's separation anxiety or just the fear of being alone as he doesn't scream when other people are holding him or if we leave him. It's just when he can't see anyone and is left alone. (such as in a crib.... see where i'm going with this...)

The first night we put Kayden in his crib to sleep at night he did GREAT! I laid him down after he ate, he stared at his mobile for a little bit, and put himself right to sleep. He woke up at 3 and 6 to eat and both times he went right back to sleep.... but it couldn't have been that easy could it!?

Then the rest of the nights (we've been doing this for a week now) we have laid him down and instantly when we leave the room he screams BLOODY MURDER. Not just an oh i'll cry myself and wimper until I fall asleep... it's an all out "YOU ARE STABBING ME WITH A KNIFE AND I AM GOING TO DIE" scream. Seriously, if someone was to walk into my house they would probably run into the nursery thinking he was dying. It's miserable. We have tried going back in every 5 minutes to calm him down, letting him cry it out (doesn't work well when he starts off in a full out scream though), even rocking... as soon as you put him down the scream starts.

We started noticing last night that whenever someone would go back in there he would calm down, but as soon as you left it was "the scream" again. I thought that he was just having a hard time putting himself to sleep at night, hence the rocking but no. He can easily put himself to sleep. As soon as I pick him up from the crib, his eyes get heavy and he goes to sleep. I can lay him next to me in the bed and he will fall right to sleep. No singing, no rocking, no touching. Just laying next to me and magically he is asleep. Seeing this, I thought I just wasn't giving him enough time in his crib to try and fall asleep on his own. Trust me, after trying for an hour to get him to fall asleep on his own, I gave up. It's isn't worth it.

Then, all of a sudden I realized that he also starts crying when I am getting ready and I move out of his range of vision while he is in his bouncy seat. It doesn't go instantly into "the scream" but a whimper starts and then if he doesn't see me for a little while longer then he starts screaming. I tested the theory out today. Nick was in the shower and I was getting ready in the bathroom. When I went to spray the hair spray I closed the door like I always do so that the hairspray doesn't get in Kayden's eyes (he sits in the bouncy seat by the bathroom door). Seriously, as soon as I closed the door, he started crying.

So, my child has a problem with being alone. I've looked up a bunch of different stuff online and I have read where separation anxiety could start this young and you usually see it at first when they are going to sleep. BINGO. I guess we are going to try some different things and see what we can do. I really want him to sleep in his crib, even if he does wake up in the middle of the night to eat still. I HATE having him in the bed with me because I am terrified that something is going to happen. Co-sleeping is not for us!

Someone suggested putting something in his crib that smelled like me and also try a recording of nick singing some worship music or lullabies. We are also going to try a method where we do our normal bedtime routine, put the baby down and position ourselves where we can easily pat his stomach/ sooth him, but NOT picking him up. Everyone says that the first couple nights of doing this are rough but that it will eventually work. If it doesn't, we are going to attempt "controlled crying" at 6 months. They don't suggest doing this before 6 months as the child doesn't understand what is going on but you do everything normally and then when the child starts crying in a manner where you know he won't go back to sleep you go in the room quietly say mommy and daddy love you but it is time to go to sleep, and walk back out. I just really hope something works because right now, Kayden and I are not getting the sleep that both of us need!

45 minute intruder...

And if you have read the book Baby Wise... you know about the 45 minute intruder... and it's happened this past week (as it said it would between weeks 7 and 8) and it's frustrating...

it's been 45 minutes into his nap time and he's awake, not wanting to go back to sleep..

Baby Wise

*Sleeping peacefully in his crib.... for all of 5 seconds!*


Baby Wise was a book that I had started reading when I first found out I was pregnant. I had heard about it a couple years ago and that person just praised it! However, when I told some people that I was reading it when I first found out I was pregnant they had some pretty negative comments about it and acted like the book had some crazy ideas so I decided to stop reading it and just forget about it.

Well, the other day I was talking to a friend who has a little boy that is 3 weeks younger than Kayden and she said that her son slept 9 hours straight the other night and has been going at least 7 hours most nights. I was VERY jealous :) and asked her what she was doing and she said Baby Wise. I trusted this friend and knew she wasn't a nut job and wouldn't do some crazy stuff just to get her baby to sleep through the night so I decided to start reading it again. I really only read the parts about scheduling and sleeping, as I had already read the first couple of chapters and they really didn't appeal to me. However, I found the other chapters beneficial.

In doing all this, I had planned on trying to start to get Kayden to take naps in his crib. He still sleeps in our bedroom in his cradle and I wanted to start transitioning him into his own room. I thought it would be better to do naps, and because he is still eating every 4 -4.5 hours at night. We also got our video monitors in, but the speaker was broken so I didn't want to put him in there at night until we got the replacement ones in. However, the naps didn't work out. It took me 30 minutes to get him to actually fall asleep, and then he slept for maybe 10 minutes before waking up screaming. I would go calm him back down, and he went back to sleep for maybe 5 minutes and woke up again screaming. I was done with that nap time and decided I would try again with the next nap.... it was even worse. I continued to try the rest of that day but by the end of the day both of us were more exhausted and cranky. Kayden was overtired since he really hadn't slept all day, and I was frustrated from all the crying. So much so where I had to call Nick and tell him to come home from practice because I was at my breaking point.... which has not happened at all yet. Never the less to say, we were done with nap times in the cribs for a couple more weeks... he is sleeping peacefully in his swing as we speak.

In talking to yet another friend who did Baby Wise, she said that she started with bedtimes in the crib and then worked on nap times in the crib. She said that bedtimes in the crib were easier for her daughter for some reason, but she refused to sleep in the crib at nap times. She eventually got her in the crib for naps at 12 weeks, so I'm thinking we are going to go that route.

We just started Baby Wise on Monday and I'm starting to see a difference thank goodness! We start our day at 8 a.m. (or within 30 minutes of that time) and I make sure he eats every 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours and try to make sure he gets full feedings each time. I try to feed him closer to every 2 1/2 hours so that he gets a lot of feedings during the day. He "plays" for about 20 minutes after his feedings and then goes down for a 1 1/2 - 2 hour nap and then we do the whole routine all over again. I try not to feed him earlier than every 2 1/2 hours so we can get on a schedule unless he is showing signs of being hungry before that. If he wakes up 20 minutes or so before a feeding I can usually hold him off with his pacifier or give him a change of scenery and he is fine. This is where I heard a lot of negative comments about Baby Wise. People said I'm going to feed my child when he is hungry, not make him wait... but Baby Wise clearly stated, if the baby is showing signs of hunger before his next feeding, then feed him. So maybe people just didn't read it correctly. I, too, feed my child when he shows signs of hunger, but I'm not just going to feed him every time he cries just to make him stop crying. Sometimes, babies just cry. And with breastfeeding, I am doing everything possible to keep him from "snacking" and so far, we have done good with him not snacking. Thank goodness!

With this schedule, he should be able to start going longer throughout the night. The book says that from 7-12 weeks they should start sleeping through the night, but we started late so I have a feeling it will be close to the 12. However the past couple nights he has gone one 5 1/2 hour stretch and another 4 1/2 hour stretch. He has always been good about going straight back to sleep after eating during the night so that's a blessing. You are supposed to give them a late night feeding around 10-11 p.m. and that's usually the first feeding to go as they get older, but he is sleeping so well after his 9-9:30 feeding that I don't wake him up and just wait until he wakes up around 1-2 to feed. I have a feeling he would sleep longer if I woke him up for his 11 p.m. feeding, but it scares me that he will be fussy and I'll have a hard time getting him back to sleep. Maybe we will try it tonight and see what happens!

Over all I'm pleased with the results and think that it's a great approach to getting a baby on a schedule. You wake him up at the same time every day so that he can start getting his "internal clock" figured out and realize ok this is when I'm awake and then they also realize night time. I failed today at waking him up at 8 (or within 30 minutes of it) though so I'm feeling a little guilty about that! I was just so tired and when my alarm went off at 8:30 (he ate at 6:30 and had a hard time going back to sleep after that feeding but eventually did... and so did i) I just turned the alarm off and went back to sleep until he woke back up at 9:30.

And of course, I would be the one to try and put this child on a schedule the week before "falling back". So i'm starting to think that maybe the fact that I let him go until 9:30 today is actually what i should be doing all week so that come sunday morning he doesn't wake up at 7:00-7:30 thinking that it's 8. This scheduling thing is a lot harder than I thought!