Navy Seals in Training

A couple of months ago we stumbled on a show called Hell Week on the discovery channel. Hell week is the Navy seals training that consists of 5 1/2 days of cold wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer of four hours of sleep.

I feel like Chris and I are trying to pass our parental navy seals training.

Caroline slept so good in the hospital however; the very first night home she did not. We put her down after her last feeding at midnight, turned the light out and thought we were going to just pass out. 15 minutes into the night she started screaming and it just went down hill from there. We fed her, changed her, warmed her, swaddled her, rocked her, even broke down and gave her a pacifier. The only thing that calmed her down that night was hold her tight while sitting up in bed. At 6am Chris was amazing and held her until 8am when I fed her. Thank you Jesus my mom was there to let us sleep the morning.

She slept all day. Chris and I hit that drawing board and came up with what we thought was a great idea for the next night. I will just say it did not work. She was awake ALL NIGHT!

Caroline's pediatrician told us her nights and days are mixed and we needed to try to stimulate her before bed .

We broke out her play mat after her 9:00 feeding and kept her awake until her midnight feeding. She was not happy to be kept up the way we did. Papaw really helped out. It was so hard to keep her up mainly because I already want to give her everything she wants. Her poor little cries are so sad. We were strong and stuck to it and it paid off tremendously!! It is amazing what a three hour stretch of sleep will do for a person. This seems to work this week but we will see what week 2 holds.

These were delivered on Wednesday afternoon from Amy, Gian & Sam Falco. They were so sweet to get after a 2nd hard night!!