she'll be all night long!

we initiated the sleep regime on accident.
while staying with my parents, zoom got to sleep in the famous "twin beds" (a bunk bed taken apart so the beds are just a foot off the floor). his room was at one end of the house, right next to my parents. hubby and i, with the girl's crib in our room, were at the far other end of the house. it worked out great for grammy to wake up with zoom and have their special time. the first week the girl did her normal gig, waking up every couple hours or so. i put off nursing as long as possible, but ended up with her on the floor (our bed was not big enough for all three of us and she is so wiggly that i was really afraid she would roll right off). thankfully, the parents have a great sheepskin rug that made a great bed on the floor.
one week into our visit, my parents were out of town for a few nights. this left zoom at the far end of the house by himself. we could have moved him into a closer room but for the, now famous, Longest Night of Sleep Ever.
after a long day with the siblings, we finally got the kiddos to naps around 4pm. at 6 zoom was still asleep, and we decided to let him sleep. we were on vacation, so if he woke up at 10pm and wanted to hang, we could handle that. i took the other twin bed in exchange for a night off with the girl. around 2am zoom woke up to pee, but went right back to sleep until 8am!!! ahhhhhh, sweet sleep!
thus initiated hubby's sleep regime with the girl. he had no boobs to pacify her. she could see that i wasn't' in the bed. she listened to her daddy, who rubbed her back, whispered to her and continued to lay her back down! since things seemed to go so well, we tried that another night. and another. by the time we left seattle i was back in bed with hubby and he would talk to her from bed, "it's bedtime, lay down". that's it. she would give a little grumpy cry and flop back down.
hubby has continued to be the nighttime parent since returning home, and things have gone from good to great! the first few nights she woke up a handful of times, but the interactions were moments. the past two nights she has slept from 8pm to 8am, SOLID!
PTL indeed!