Month Four!

Lucie and Ryan celebrated their four month birthday yesterday by waking up only once (yes, once!) for a nighttime feeding. In honor of their epic slumber, we spent the morning at the local hospital's "Understanding Baby Sleep" workshop to get some more tips. (On a side note, they are getting so big that we have to put them diagonally in their co-sleeper.)

The speaker spent much of the time talking about the science of sleep while the audience, comprised entirely of sleep deprived moms, juggled babies and Starbucks cups with looks on their faces reading, "Cut to the chase, lady - how do I get my baby to go to sleep, NOW??" We did learn some interesting things, including the counterintuitive fact that sleep begets sleep. That explains why nights when we try to keep the babies up (for fear they won't go to sleep after an evening nap) turn out to be the most sleep-deprived of all.

As my friend Vivi said, every parent has a topic s/he really focuses on during the first year - hers is sleep, and how to get more of it! I'm definitely with her on that one.