Joy of a good night's sleep

Oh, the joy of a good night's sleep! He slept well last night, waking up only once last night. I slept well too and woke up early at 6am feeling refreshed.

For the past 4-5 weeks, he hasnt been sleeping well, waking up between 4-8 times in a night and each time needing me to carry, walk him back to sleep with background music on.

Possible reasons:
- It was partly because he was a bit ill with a cold - not for the entire period, but for the last 2 weeks or so.
- I think starting kindergarten was a big factor too - many new things he had to get used to over there.
- On top of that, there were the changes to his (and my) routine which may have caused him to be unsettled for e.g. I had to run many errands before his holiday programme.
- Another factor was the lack of gross motor exercises...perhaps not burning off the energy meant he wasnt tired enough to sleep through the night.

I started him back on gross motor exercises on Monday but gently cos he's been 2 weeks off it due to his cold, and also because he's only just really recovered. Yesterday though, he did a lot more exercises and was perhaps therefore more tired. Exercising releases endorphins so perhaps that helped too!

Yesterday morning, we went to two parks. It started to drizzle about 30mins into cycling at Tmn Tun, so we were heading back when the sun shone through. He chose to go to the park over going home from there, so we headed to Desa Parkcity cos it has covered areas in case the drizzle started again.

In the afternoon, he had his bit of exercise again at Tesco, pushing the trolley. But this time it was just briefly and an empty trolley. I had done my big load of grocery shopping on Monday. He had his Neurosuit on then and a very heavy trolley to push.

It was evening when he got home from Tesco and was raining. So we got him onto the treadmill. He did great on it! Managed 30mins at the slowest speed (0.8), with several breaks in between. The eventual aim is to get him running for 30mins. But that's a story for another post.

Just very happy right now to have slept well. Hoping that he'll continue sleeping very well from now on, cos a growing kid seriously needs his sleep...and so does his mum! LOL