Evening "Snack"

Our terrific sleeper has been having a hard time getting a good night's sleep the past couple of weeks. She's been waking up in the middle of the night coughing and having a hard time settling down again. We had a really rough night on Sunday but things were back to normal on Monday, so I thought we were back on track.

Last night I put her to bed around 7, and she went to sleep pretty quickly, but then I heard her fussing around 7:45. I rocked her and walked her around for awhile, and she didn't go to sleep. We tried leaving her in her crib for a few minutes to put herself to sleep, and that didn't work. Robert walked her around for awhile, and that didn't work. Finally after about 45 minutes we decided to see if she was hungry. She'd eaten a pretty good dinner, but at this point we were trying everything in our bag of tricks.

She ate:

• 1 container of YoBaby yogurt
• A small bowl of applesauce
• Most of a piece of toast with cheese
• About half of a banana

Usually just one of those items satisfies her when she needs a snack, so we don't know where she was putting it! Every time she finished something she'd look at us like "What's next?" We were slightly amazed. After the banana, I took her back to her room and rocked her for a couple of minutes before laying her in her crib, and we didn't hear a peep until morning. Success!