Now that Declan is here I'm coming to realize that all the men in my family are night owls and fight nighttime sleep. Since Danny is working, I've taken 100% night duty (we will have to adjust this arrangement when I go back to work if Declan isn't consistently sleeping through the night). Night duty is really hard for me because I would rather be asleep of course! But I have found something that works to get me through the night. Right before I start my sleep (which is undoubtedly interrupted) I queue up a Christmas movie. Then when Declan wakes up I start my movie. I'll keep it on until he goes back to sleep. Sometimes this takes a long time.
Danny can gauge how good the night was by how much of the movie I have left in the morning. He knows it took Declan a good amount of crying to go back to sleep if I report that I finished the movie.
