Blake had his sleep study Thursday night. I wasn't sure if I should just do it or reschedule since it was so close to my due date, but I figured it would be easier to get it out of the way now than try to schedule around a newborn.

It went MUCH better than expected. I thought it was going to be a night full of crying, fighting, pulling off sensors, etc. He actually did amazingly well. We got settled in around 8 & put in a Barney movie to keep him distracted while the tech got him all wired up. He just sat there as she put them on his face, chest, head and chin. Then she wrapped it with a bandage to keep them on. He looked a little confused but really didn't seem to be bothered too much.

It wasn't until she put the rubber tube (that monitors breathing) in his nose that he got a little annoyed. He spent about the next hour pulling that out over and over and over. I put Barney in a second time, and the tech came back in to adjust everything and then laid him down and told him to go to sleep. And about 15 minutes later he did. I was expecting him to be really uncomfortable and wake up often during the night. He slept from 10:15 to 6, when they woke us up.

I, on the other hand, hardly got any sleep. I discovered during the study that he is a very loud breather when he sleeps on his back. I think he was also a little more restless than usual due to all the equipment that was attached to him. So every time he moved or made a sound I would wake up, then it would take a really long time to get back to sleep.

But I am just happy that he was able to get some sleep; it would have been much more stressful if he had been crying all night. He was a very big boy and then next morning we went down and got some pancakes. Then we went home and took a nice long nap.

I am expecting the results sometime next week-I will post again with the results.