four and half hours

who would have thought that four and half hours could be such a significant amount of time? i was up last nite to feed percy at 11pm and again to settle her at 2am. she was crying quite strongly at 2am and i couldn't think of anything else to calm her down than to feed her. so while i am very reluctant to feed her at less than 4 hour intervals in case she decides this is a nice way to pass the dark hours, demanding more and more warm drinks thru the nite. she did take one breast and fell asleep right away. i figured i'd be up again in an hour or two to do the other side- but no! not a peep; at least not one that i heard. so i got to sleep from 2:30am to 7:00am. how's that!? miserable on most accounts but near to bliss as i can expect. i almost feel refreshed.

this is significant on another account too. percy is quite capable now of rolling onto her stomach, there to pop onto her hands and knees. what she can't do is get back down again to sleep on her side or back. (i've only seen her sleep on her stomach twice.) in the middle of the nite, she's tired, frustrated, possibly a little frightened and just wants to sleep (i assume/hope.) she then cries out for help to roll her over. the previous two nites we were up three times to do this, adding in two feeds amounts to hardly any sleep. there are devices (eg. ockie straps) that could keep her pinned to the bed but i am reluctant to use these as they have to go eventually. we've already learnt the hard way not to get dependant on something!
so the significance is also in the lack of rolling over assistance requested in that 4.5 hours.

who's up for heavy vehicle driving today?!!