Sleepy Time
We've been co-sleeping since M was born. I read a book on it and we follow all the safety guidelines, but even I was amazed by my natural instinct to sleep perfectly still. I used to roll around and flop side to side, but now I wake up in exactly the same position I fell asleep in. It's rather uncomfortable at times, but worth it. She sleeps awesome. When she was a newborn, we'd get her to sleep and then bring her to bed with us and she would sleep through the whole night except for dream feedings. Now she goes down between 7-8pm and is out for the night, but she still wakes a few times to nurse.
She's in the most fabulous mood when she first wakes up in the morning. We have sleepy "conversations" where she tells us about her dreams and gives us lots of goofy grins. This morning, she woke up and scooted herself halfway across the bed from me over to Kevin before we were even fully alert. Kevin woke up to a wide-eyed baby in his face and she babbled a greeting as soon as he opened his eyes. He thinks we can officially call it crawling; it's really more of a scoot, but it won't be long now. I love the time we spend with her this way and I hate to think of what we would have missed if she'd been sitting awake alone in a crib in a different room (not that there's anything wrong with that).

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