That was Karl's schedule for the entire time until he was about 10 months old. Then he started only waking once a night (and sometimes 11, but he was easy to nurse back down). Then I worked crazy hours, he got sick, and we're back to waking 3 times a night. Wayne gets daytime naps, I don't. And yet he's the one who is more sleep deprived.
I think it's throwing me for a loop because she started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks until just a few weeks ago. So I got some sweet sleep! Then she started adding in one or two night wakings until we got to the current schedule. I'm not a fan of CIO, although I'm almost to that point.
I think Karl has slept through the night maybe three times in his life. :) But his night wakings are because he is hungry or his diaper is too wet. So he cries (without waking up really), and once the problem is fixed he nurses to sleep with no fuss. (Except for those random nights when it seems like I am not meant to get sleep.)
I saw your comment about urban homesteaders in Pittsburgh, and I am one of sorts so I stopped on over to your journal. It looks like we also both had our daughters last December and suffered from sleep deprivation right on schedule with one another. My daughter also started sleeping for 7-12 hours a stretch around 6 weeks, but then at 5 months the teeth started coming in and it was all downhill from there. She still wakes up too often throughout the night, now I think it's habit. I just requested the book you mentioned from the library, did it help?
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Good luck getting all the sewing done.
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