when your baby, who has never slept more than 12 hours over nite, and much more often sleeps less than 11 and then only occasionally, more typically sleeps a few hours with bottles, cuddles, re-settles and rocking in between, turns around and sleeps nearly 13 hours it's alarming!
percy slept from 6:45pm to 7:30am last nite! truely astonishing. no bottles, no cries, no re-settles, nothing.
prior to her waking tho it was giving me the heebie-jeebies as i was envisigning her succumbing to SIDS or some other terrible thing. do 15 months old do that? once she woke, greeted me with a smile and a big hug i haven't stopped smiling myself. wow! do other people have babies that sleep like this? truly?!
i begin to understand that should you have babysitting available to you a couple could actually have a life "after hours" together. how novel! we could actually see a movie at a cinema, something we haven't done since before her birth. dinner? beach side walks? a trip to the observatory? theatre? exhibitions? even parties? unheard of!! theses things are not entirely missed and well compensated for, tho it would be nice to have the choice.
let's just forget four nites ago when she woke at 10pm screaming and inconsolable. the only thing we could think to do after exhausting other options was to take her to hospital. once in the car we thought just a drive about might make the difference and send her off to sleep. (expensive sleep solution!) she did calm, did not sleep, arrived home about 40 minutes later and went to sleep in her cot about ten minutes after that.
i'll take the 12 - 13 hours of straight sleep from now on please!
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