In the last week or so we've tried to follow Bean's schedule. Sleeping and feeding have been especially interesting. Actually, to be more precise, sleeping and feeding at night have been interesting. Bean's pattern was to snooze from around 9-11 at night, and then the fun began. He'd wake after 4-5 hours, hungry as hell, he'd eat, poop and then become inconsolable. So we'd feed him again, change a diaper, and then walk/bounce/rock Bean to calm him down. Only he wouldn't sleep. So eat, change, walk/bounce/rock became eat, change, walk/bounce/rock, eat, change, walk/bounce/rock, eat, change, walk/bounce/rock, eat, change, walk/bounce/rock, eat, change, walk/bounce/rock until around 6 in the morning. Fun! Fun! This is what a new baby's all about, right?

We're both smart women, so we thought we'd beat Bean at his game. When he went down at 9, we'd go to sleep, too. We'd leave the house in a not-quite-closed-up-for-the-night state, have a movie ready to watch, and prepared for a late night movie time with Bean. We figured this would leave us well rested and able to weather the witching hours more readily.

We implemented it and for that first night it was great. True, it was a bizarre sleep schedule, but we felt better the next day. The next night, we were all set. Movie queued up, a light on in the living room - good to go. And once again we were rewarded with a decent night. Then Bean copped onto the fact that we had cracked the code and decided to change things up.

I don't think it bodes well that we are already being duped by a 10-day-old...

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