Sweet Sleep

Today has been a rough sleep day. Libby has napped in 20-minute bits and has been kinda cranky. So when she fell asleep while eating about 45-60 minutes ago, I decided to just let her sleep in my arms so she'd get a good nap in. I'm getting very good at one-handed typing!

The bad news about sleep is that Libby has started wanting to sleep with a pacifier. This is bad because I'm worried she'll always wake up when it's not there. That happened last night after 1 hour of sleep. She did go back to sleep about 10-15 minutes later.

The good news is that Libby seems to be headed toward 6-hour sleeps before waking up. She slept until 5:15 this morning, which was actually almost 7 hours if you don't count her little wakeup at 11:30.

I want to start back-blogging, if you will, about the past three months. I guess it would be good to start with August 29th. T and I went to help some friends move. I got the easy assignment of sorting baby clothes. I had my first painful contractions during the day, including back pain. I didn't really think anything of it since my due date was 2 weeks away and I knew you could have sporadic contractions for days or weeks before labor.

That evening, T and I went grocery shopping. I know we checked out at 6:30 because I kept the receipt. When we got home, Todd started a frozen pizza and I decided to start timing my contractions. By 7:00, they were coming 5 minutes apart and I was in Labor Land, where everything is kind of hazy.

I wanted to try the Bradley method of natural childbbirth because it really seemed like a good match for me. So I laid on my side during the contractions and focused on relaxing. Todd rubbed my back during every contraction because it was very painful. After awhile, he packed the car because it seemed like it was time! At a little after 8 pm, the contractions had been 5 min apart for an hour, so we went to the hospital. I remember asking Todd to wait for one more contraction to be sure--I couldn't believe it was happening so fast.

To be continued...