Friday

Today Isak is 6 days old, time goes really fast! last night went much better than the night before. Adam slept upstairs since he has a cold and is coughing a lot, and it is nice for me to have the bedroom to myself when trying to work out the best way of getting him to sleep. Last night I wrapped him a bit harder when putting him to bed the first time. He fought it for about 10 seconds but seemed happy after that. He slept from 8.30 until midnight which was great! When he woke up I got up unwrapped him, fed him, wrapped him again and held him for quite some time until he looked like he was in a quite deep sleep. He started waking up when I put him down but after me stroking his forhead for a while he went back to sleep. That took about an hour all together. Woke up again at about 3.30, much better than previous night when it was every hour. Same procedure as before but this time it took a bit longer and was harder to get him to go back to sleep. Next time he woke up was 6.30 and then I fed him in bed and we both went to sleep while I was feeding. My plan is to not let him fall asleep on the breast too often. I rather cuddle him to sleep. We want to try to avoid giving him a dummy and I think and hope it will be easier to help in to learn to sleep if he doesn't fall asleep on the breast every time. I know it is still very early and the most important thing is that he feels secure and happy and never gets left alone if he is upset.
After we woke up this morning Adam had Isak for nearly an hour while I had a shower and had breakfast. Isak was so calm and awake the whole time and Adam got a really nice hour of bonding with his son.