{Sleeping Through the Night}

From the day we brought B home from the hospital she has been sleeping in a Moses basket by the side of our bed.  It was convenient and comforting to have her so close as a newborn.  We could hear all the sweet baby coos and cries.  I could play the obsessive and neurotic mother, checking to make sure she was still breathing every 20 minutes.  You know how it goes.  But, like they say, all good things must come to an end.  Over the past month or so, we have slowly been making the transition from our bedside to her own crib.

I read a book by Dr. Jodi Mindell called "Sleeping Through the Night", which was very helpful when it came to sleep training for Miss O.  In all honesty, though, I never really made it very far into the book because O was such a good sleeper to begin with.  She quickly took to the very first method mentioned in the book and has been a terrific sleeper ever since.  Even as an almost 3 year old she still naps for a good 3 hours each afternoon and gets a full 12 hours of sleep each night.  My mommy friends with toddlers usually hate me for this!

B took a little more work, and I had to read a little more of Dr. Mindell's trusty book, but she is slowly starting to sleep for good stetches through the night.  Lately she's been going down around 8 or 9:00pm and sleeping until 5 or 6:00am in the morning!  Anyway, one of the baby steps we took to get B to sleep in her own crib was to put her in the Moses basket, which was comfortable and familiar, inside her crib.  Unfortunatley, B is growing so fast that she is just too long for the Moses basket anymore!  It takes her forever to get comfortable and she almost always ends up with her face smashed against the side of the basket (which scares the daylights out of me) and one arm up, holding herself in her favorite position.

I think it's time to get rid of the Moses basket.