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Elijah, bless his heart, is the LOUDEST sleeper ever.  So having him in our room for the past 4 weeks has been lovely, but we haven't slept much.  Elijah has slept great, just Daniel and I have been miserable.
After we got our new video monitor I decided, since I can watch him, it was time to kick him out of our room.  I set up the pack and play with the bassinet insert and put it in the guest room.  I slept the first night in the room with him, but again I did not sleep thus defeating the purpose of having his own room.
Night number 2, he slept great! I really only get up one time here's our approximate schedule:
6:00 - Nurse
between 7:00 and 8:00 I feed him again (I'm trying "cluster feeding" before bed) then put him in bed
between 11 and 12- just as I'm about to go to bed I go in and wake him up and feed him again.  Because I am doing the cluster feeding he can go 4 hours or more in the first stretch.
Between 3:00 and 5:00 - Elijah wakes up on his own somewhere in here I feed him and put him right back to bed.  That's right, the second night in his own room he slept from 12 until 5:00! 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. :)
Between 6:30-7:00 Elijah wakes up and east again.  Sometimes he wants to go right back to sleep, sometimes he is up for the day and watches Nathan eat his breakfast at 7:00.

Really, I am only getting up one time a night.  I am still not sleeping very much, but I also don't require lots of sleep.

I am so encouraged because the boys are going to eventually share a room.  I was worried about the baby waking Nathan up.  But I wake him up for his first feeding and both boys get up for the day about the same time.  So even now Nathan would probably get woken up once during the night.  Maybe we will put them together sooner than I thought.

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