Snoozin' with Izzie

We have been blessed with a generally good sleeper. From the start, Izzie was a textbook sleeper. She snoozed a lot as a newborn, became a little bit more fussy at around 6-8 weeks, and at exactly 2 months she started rewarding her parents by sleeping through the night. From 2-4 months, although she slept at an insanely late hour (around midnight), she slept a consistent 8-10 hours every night. From day 1, I co-slept with Izzie. I never really had a preference to a certain ideology to "sleep methods" - co- sleeping* was just so easy. Being the textbook baby that she is, at exactly 4 months, she entered the wakeful period. She started to really notice her surroundings, and she developmentally just exploded with so much growth - and this affected her sleep. Our consistent sleeper, started waking up again once or twice every night. Once again, co-sleeping came to the rescue. Whenever she would wake up, I'd just roll over, nurse her and doze off again. Well, finally, Izzie has started to sleep better at night - and Al and I have decided to put her down to sleep in her crib. Izzie is doing great and the transition has been very easy (lucky, I know). She busted out another 10 hours the night before AND she is going to sleep earlier. On the rare occasion she does wake up during the night (and this is after 6 hours of sleep), I just bring her back to bed like the good old times. While this means having to kick Albert out to the living room couch, I do love waking up next to her. Sometimes she'll be up too, in a good mood, babbling away. And sometimes, she'll still be asleep, and I'll just look at her for a few minutes, counting my blessings.

*Whoever says that co-sleeping is dangerous - you are greatly mistaken. A mother is so in tune with the baby, its amazing how aware you are of where your baby is while you're sleeping. Besides, if you did roll over your baby, you would notice. Most co-sleeping accidents happen when the mom is either drunk or high.