Woo Hoo! Reese slept through the night!

So this is the absolute earliest post I have ever written. It's 6:54 a.m. and I just put Reese back down after feeding her and reading Goodnight Moon. She slept through the night for the first time last night and I am so proud, rested and relieved it happened already at 7 weeks. We fed her at 10:00 p.m. last night, put her down around 10:45. She was asleep by 11:30. We have been working on getting her to fall asleep by herself as we have had to rock her to sleep the past few weeks. I had to give her the pacifier a few times and rock her tummy, but for the most part she fell asleep on her own the past two nights. Last night, Matt and I went to bed around 12:30 a.m. and I woke up around 3:00 a.m. and didn't hear a peep out of Reese. I fell back asleep and slept until Reese woke me up at 5:48 a.m. ready to eat. I was so excited that she slept the entire night. She went about 8 hours since her last feeding at 10:00 p.m. (according to the books below she shouldn't go more than 8 hours without eating at this age since she is breastfed, so I was anticipating a 6:00 a.m. feeding if she slept through the night).

Now, I'll be working on her nap schedule and getting her to put her self to sleep during the day. We are following an eat, play, sleep routine that I read about in the book "On Becoming Baby Wise". So she should eat, then play (read a book, have tummy time, go for a walk, run an errand or take a bath) and then go down for a nap or bedtime. I am also referring to a book called "Sleep Deprived No More" both which talk about getting a baby in a sleeping routine anywhere between 6 weeks and 3 months old. I've been using the books as a guide when I have time to read them, but it was up to Reese to decide when she was ready and able to sleep through the night. Mission accomplished! Let's see how she does tonight! ;)