Last night, Daphne “slept” 11.5 hours.  I put her down at 9 or so, and headed to bed with Jason taking the first shift.  Or so we thought.  She had been fairly consistent in doing two stretches of longer sleep in the night – not necessarily consistent in length or when they’d happen, but two stints through the night with one feed in the middle.  Jason would take the first one, because she generally is awake a bit after eating, so that I could go to bed and maximize my sleep.

Last night, he brought her in, in the bouncer she’s been sleeping in, at 2am, still asleep.  Ok.  That’s somewhat surprising.  I waited for her to wake up at any moment for food (she’d woken at 2am or thereabouts a number of times.)  But it didn’t happen.  And at 5am, after being up for an hour wondering if her shifting and fussing in the night would lead to her waking up to eat, I got up and pumped to relieve the excessively full feeling in my breasts.  Nearly 9oz later, I went to bed, and she didn’t get up until 8:40am.

So, here I am with far less full breasts than usual.  She wasn’t still hungry after eating at 8:45am, but did she get as much as she really wanted?  She ate again and hour and a half later, three hours after that, and two hours after that.  I think she doesn’t know what to do with this change.  She had a horrid time napping during the day as well, with neither of us being able to figure out how to pattern the eating and the sleeping together.  And then she had a long nap during class, and went down for the night later than usual.  I’m curious just how long it’s going to take to figure it all out.

Of course, I don’t expect her to repeat this performance for a while – and indeed she did not sleep through the night this morning (getting up at 3:30am to eat).  But hopefully, her body and brain will process that it’s a good idea to do it again some time soon. 😛