after another night of wake ups (only 2, which is quite good), i was browsing my bookmarks for websites i’ve kept aside for reading later – one is Moxie, and in particular this thread
i was reading down it and came across this paragraph –
The “8-month sleep regression” (which for some babies is closer to a 9-month sleep regression) is related to the 37-week spurt. For some reason that one just seems to cause more waking, too, than some of the other spurts do. It might also be particularly hard because many babies are smack in the middle of working on crawling or walking, and also teething. (At Casa Moxie we’ve had probably 8 weeks of crappy sleep between teething, the 37-week spurt, crawling, teething, and now pulling up. Every now and then he’ll have an easy night, but boy is it rough being a 9-month-old.)
and then i checked the latest newsletter email that I get each week – Jasper is (you guessed it) 37 weeks old. ha! it might not solve or explain what we’re going through exactly, but it’s a pretty big coincidence, right? 8 weeks of crap sleep (all of us), crawling, teething, pulling up … that’s us to a T.
i actually do subscribe to the ‘wonder week’ theory anyway, but never thought to read the chart again until now. we really don’t want to let him cry it out, so instead we’ll ride it out …
off to read up a bit more on this – but leave me a link to more info if you have it!!