Oh sweet sleep....

Oh sweet, precious sleep... how I've missed you and oh how glad I am to be reunited with you.  Starting at six weeks Dax would sleep through the night... like sleep at least 7 hours, wake up and eat, and then back to sleep for another few hours.  This wonderful phase of sleeping went on until he was about 3 months old when he got sick.  Starting then he would wake up every few hours... and from that point on it has just gone down hill. For probably the last 2 weeks he was waking up every hour, hour and half at night. UGHHHHH. Not wanting to eat, not wanting to be held... just waking up and fussing. Waking up every hour at night, mixed with waking up at 5am to go to work and teach pre-k for 8 hours, then comeing back home to start the nightly cycle over again was the most exhausting thing I've ever experienced! It was even worse than when he was a newborn.  We had racked our brain trying to figure out what was wrong with him. We thought and tried everything.. .maybe he was too hot, maybe he was too cold, maybe he needed cereal, maybe he needed a better night time routine... and that list could go on and on. Needless to say none of those genius ideas panned out and helped the problem...
Well a few days ago after an evening of Dax fussing and spitting up a lot it occured to me that maybe his acid reflux was acting up again. He had really bad silent reflux when he was little and it had gotten a lot better over the last couple months. Adding this new idea to the ongoing growing list of things that could possibly be waking him up, we decided to give him Colic Calm (which is suppose to help out with acid reflux some) and have him sleep on his wedge again that we used when we was little. WAHLA!!! MIRACLE WORKER..... Dax slept 8 straight hours that night without a sound, woke up and ate, and went back to sleep for another 2 hours. Needless to say we've been doing those same two things every night since and we are now going on night 4 of sleeping all night! I'm not going to lie... I've been waking up several times a night to check our video monitor to see if he's breathing... but hey.. I"ll take that any time over him waking up every hour.

And that's pretty much the highlight of our life this week...  Dax goes for his 4 month shots next week so be preparing yourself for a post on how much my little man has grown coming up soon :)