The magic of white noise

For about two weeks, inexplicably, Nathaniel had been waking up three to five times a night and needed to be held to go back to sleep. It was amazingly stressful and exhausting.

But it stopped (still knocking on wood) earlier this week. We didn't know if it was the salt-water drops we'd been giving him, the humidifier in his room, that we were feeding him some more or something else.

After last night, I'm going with the humidifier and the noise it makes. Last night, I forgot to turn the humidifier on when he went to bed. I noticed I hadn't turned it on when I went to bed, but it was too low on water and I was afraid moving things around to refill it would make too much noise.

Then, about 45 minutes later, Nathaniel woke up crying for the first time this week. I calmed him and decided to take the time to fill the humidifier.

And that was it. He slept through the rest of the night without a problem.

White noise. It's a life saver.