Sleep Issues Update--Cautiously Optimistic

We visited Grammie and Grampie this past weekend and had a GREAT visit. While we were there we were paying pretty close attention to R's wake ups. The first two mornings we were there she woke up very early (2:30ish, 3:00ish) but J was able to get her back to sleep by rocking her for a few minutes and then laying her back down, and both days she woke up close to or after 6.

The last morning we were there, I think J said she made some noises in the early morning but he didn't get up with her and she eventually went back to sleep, and woke up close to 6:30.

Today was our first morning back home and she did not wake up until actually close to 7!

It's been really weird for our room to be lightening up before we have to get out of bed. Kind of nice, too.

So you might be asking: what did we do to "fix" things?

Nothing, really... I would say the biggest change has been J giving her more time to get back to sleep on her own. We've also been giving her a little bit of Tylenol before bed because she is OBVIOUSLY working on her eyeteeth. She sticks her fingers in her mouth and bites on them, and has been gnawing everything in sight (including once, the wheels on her stroller, EW!) so our theory is that maybe she was up early because of teething pain.

At any rate, we don't plan to keep giving her Tylenol every night but we do suspect that that might have been at least part of the cause of the wake-ups. We'll keep you updated.