Night Night Bubba Update: The Magic Fruit

This is not entitled "Night Night Bubba (Part 2)", because that title is reserved for the blog post where I talk about all the glorious sleep I'm getting. Our sleep is definitely getting better, but still not where I'd like it to be. Some nights Zora wakes briefly at midnight or 1am, snuggles up next to me and goes back to sleep. She then wakes again around 4 or 5 am and it has become increasingly difficult to get her back to sleep. It can take 1-2 hours!

A few days ago I decided I needed to drop the 4 or 5am nursing session as well, since Zora was no longer going back to sleep easily, and she would just nurse and squirm indefinitely. The first night (or morning, rather), there was lots of crying, but I was able to eventually get her back to sleep after a story, and a banana. I will pause here to mention that Zora has never been a big eater of table foods (breastmilk--yeah), and is definitely not a banana lover (except for our stay in Hawaii where she ate loads of the local bananas). As I was trying to get her back to sleep, she said she was hungry (this child never tells us she's hungry). I thought about it and decided a banana was a good option because there would be no crumbs. I asked her if she wanted one, and she said "yes". She ate the entire thing!

The following night, I left a banana next to the bed so I wouldn't have to get up. She awoke again at 4am, and asked for a banana--I was ready. She gobbled it up, and then spent 10 minutes or so squirming, before she asked for another one. She then proceeded to eat that one too, and soon after fell back asleep.

Needless to say, tonight there are two bananas on our bed-stand, and I'm really hoping that will suffice. 

Wooo-wooo, indeed!