Baby naps
Like just about all babies, the Bug’s sleep patterns have changed a lot over the nine months that make up her life. Lately, Katie and I have found that she’s been taking really good naps at home on the weekends, although she’s nursing a lot at nights to make up for not being with her mama during the day. At home, the Bug often gets at least one nap a day that is several hours long in addition to other shorter naps.
Elsewhere, things are different. At my work, where her bed is in the corner of my office, she tends to sleep a consistent thirty minutes in the morning, and her afternoon naps vary from nonexistent to an hour or so.
The real cuteness happens at my mother’s house, though. The Bug is blessed to get to spend a couple of days a week with her Mimi. On those days, she rarely sleeps unless held. You can try putting her down and she will fuss, but if you can let yourself go (pick up a book, watch television, take a nap), she will sleep in your arms for two or three hours.
I just love being able to kick back and hold the baby as she sleeps. There are few things greater than holding a lightly snoring baby in your lap. I alternate between jealousy of the time my mom gets with the sleeping Bug and wanting to apologize to her for C keeping her from getting anything done while she sleeps.
Mostly it’s jealousy.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Ain’t that the truth! I would drop anything just to hold the Bobblehead while she slept. Mouth wide open and snoring the cute little snore that babies have. Sigh . . .
May 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
I loved that, too. Even the pins and needles from when my head-rest arm went to sleep weren’t so bad.
My deal with Wingnut when he was a little baby was walking him to sleep. We’d pace back and forth in the kitchen usually early in the morning.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:14 am
i love you
May 6th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I love you, too, babe.