There are times when we’re looking for a place to set down either Miranda or Eleanor and we don’t want to put them in their cradle quite yet. Maybe they’ve just eaten and lying flat will make them more prone to spitting up. Maybe it’s just a temporary thing while we deal with the other one. One of the things we found is that Miranda seems quite comfortable in her carseat. She’ll quite happily fall asleep there.
Yesterday evening we decided to just let her sleep in her seat as long as she could. I was doing some work in the office and when I decided to take a break, I got up to check on the girls. I couldn’t find either of them. Neither were in the cradle or Pack n Play. I found Eleanor in the darkened bedroom sleeping on top of Agnes, who was therefore pinned. I found Miranda alone out in the living room, still sleeping in her carseat.
When Miranda finally did get up, I fed her a bottle. Miranda normally takes somewhere between three and four ounces of formula. Sometimes she’ll take the 4.5 ounces. This time, she finished her 4.5 ounce bottle and still looked hungry. She was making grunting noises, opening her mouth and craning her head. I warmed a second bottle and fed her that as well. She ended up taking a total of 170 mL (almost six ounces)! That’s an insane amount for her to be eating. Finally, I checked back in our logs to see why she was so hungry. She had been sleeping for almost five straight hours. Eleanor had had one extra meal while Miranda was sleeping.
The good thing is that this long nap didn’t seem to spoil her sleep for the night. After the 170 mL, she was quite tired again and settled in to her cradle for another three hours.
Yep, I put Theo in his car seat to sleep in at night until he was about 3 or 4 months old. He slept about 5 hours there!