On Sleeping: A Few Thoughts

Some of you may remember our sleep experiment, where we tried putting R to sleep a little later in the hopes that she would sleep a little later. Overall, the experiment was kind of a failure. We often didn't put her to sleep that much later than her usual time since she was usually so tired by the time 6 p.m. rolled around (or even 5:30 p.m. for that matter) that keeping her up was mostly an exercise in dealing with a really really unhappy baby. And it didn't really result in her sleeping much later.

However, over the last few days, she's been waking up between 5 and 6, and today, she didn't get up until almost 6:30. As J put it this morning, why couldn't she sleep in this late on the weekend?

Anyway, my new theory is that she was waking up so early because she was so snotty and because she wasn't sleeping well with her colds, and that now that her colds seem to have gone away, she may fall back into a more regular sleep routine which (we hope!) will involve sleeping in until 5:30 or later.

I'll keep you updated, especially since we're still trying to push her bedtime back a little due to daylight savings time ("Fall Back") coming up soon. I don't think we could handle a 5 p.m. bedtime because it makes dinner and bath way too early.