Lucy & Ethel Have a Baby: The Adventures of Shrike & Whozat (& Peeper!)

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Who Are You, And What Have You Done With My Baby?

Last night, Peeper nursed to sleep, while I visited with Anonymama. Then I walked across the house, lay her down, nursed her for a few seconds, and got up. I got ready for bed, set up the laptop in our bedroom, checked email, and piddled around for at least half an hour before joining her in bed.

Today, three times, I have nursed her to sleep sitting in a chair in front of the laptop in our room, then laid her in bed, and left the room. I sat in the kitchen with Anonymama for quite a while, and checked in on her periodically.

The first time, I heard a peep and found her juuuust waking up, looking around confusedly, but not upset.

The second time, she was awake and crying, probably as pissed off about finding herself on her tummy (she was on her side when I left!) and too close to a pillow to get rolled over as she was freaked out about me not being there.

The third nap is still in progress.

She's also gone to sleep around midnight the past two nights, and she got herself up around 9:30 this morning.

At home, if I try to lay her down asleep, she almost invariably wakes up. I don't know what's different here, but I could get use to this thing about being able to walk around alone and do stuff while the baby sleeps.

It is kind of hard to hear from the bedroom to the parts of the house where we're likely to be, so I think I'm going to pick up a monitor tomorrow. I'm sure they'll put it to good use when BabyBro's kids are visiting, before too long.