Daily Archive

Every day there is something new. Something new with our son that is. This started between weeks six and seven when he started smiling and cooing. Up until then his smiles where involuntary. Then over night, he’d respond to us by smiling. Now at eight weeks, we’ve seen more new developments. He’s found his hands and, I’m sure he’s going to be a thumb sucker. I heard him laugh this week in our yoga class during one of the movement poses. He and I spent almost an hour last night playing on his play mat - he went from back to tummy to back…and it took him a long time to tire of it. When he was done I gave him a little baby massage and he nearly fell asleep before I got him dressed.

A laid him down in the co-sleeper (every now and again we try him in there) when we went up for bed. He slept. The boy slept till 1AM (previous feeding was around 9pm)! He went back to sleep - in the co-sleeper - and didn’t wake till 4:30AM!!! He feed quickly and back down - A and I didn’t know what to do with ourselves. I’d already gotten more sleep than I usually get in two nights, and was giddy from excitement over his sleep. I had to force myself back to sleep.

We all got up a little after 7AM. I know I shouldn’t count on this every night but it’s so great to know we may be turning some corner, and it was amazing to get what feels like a full night’s sleep after eight weeks of sleep deprivation!