Sleep Strategy

I have trauma from when Evie quit sleeping as a baby. On Jan 1st 2016 she was 5 months old and the next night after the fireworks she started waking and wailing every single hour. I couldn't sleep around it and I'm still PTSD about it.

Here Michael is at 7 weeks old and I'm already borrowing from the future, waiting for him to do the same thing as Evie. Any day I could be screwed for sleep.

Last night he fell asleep at 9pm, woke at 10pm and I panicked. He had napped poorly all day. But then he slept till 2am. Then 5am. My breasts were engorged with milk and I had to pump. Then up for the day at 6am.

I'm going to save the breast milk and freeze it. That way instead of panicking when he wakes up after an hour I can rest assured that I can have RJ take a 3 or 4 hour shift from 9pm to 1am on a night of our choosing. I'll won't have to be as crazy thinking if I have this as a backup plan.

I've yet to see if it will work.

I know that Michael will take the bottle. Last week we used formula and a bottle for the 3 hours I was gone to the postpartum doctors appointment from 9am to noon. And it didn't cause any nipple confusion that one time. So I'm willing to bet it won't cause confusion if we do it here and there at nighttime so I can get some sleep.