Alert the Media!

Okay, fine, it’s not exactly media-worthy, but it is Big News in our house. News worthy of Capital Letters. You see, my husband has been able to settle my 15-month-old back to sleep THREE TIMES over the last several nights!

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My husband is a great father and very good with the kids, so it should not be quite so newsworthy, except my other daughters refused to be settled back to sleep by anyone other than me (and my mum-mums) until they were over two-and-a-half years old! So the fact that my husband was able to settle our third daughter at the tender age of 15 months is amazing and gratefully received. Not just once, not even twice, but THREE times, which means it is not a Fluke and might actually be Repeatable. Clearly I am giddy with the additional sleep I received.

Last night was especially wonderful. I felt pretty cruddy from the cold to which I finally succumbed after several irresistible toddler pointing games of “Baby’s (runny) nose” and “Mama’s nose.” I needed the sleep and was none too pleased when I woke to nurse the baby at 4 a.m. and she had trouble settling back to sleep for a full 45 minutes. When it was clear she didn’t need to nurse again but she couldn’t stay asleep, I finally gave in and called to my husband at 4:45, and he was able to snuggle her to sleep. For some reason she accepts sleeping on his chest, as if she knows that’s the best he has to offer and she might as well enjoy it. And enjoy it she did — we all slept until it was time to get up at 7:15! Heaven.

When my toddler woke for good that morning, I went in to find her snuggled next to her daddy AND her four-year-old sister who had wandered down the hall to find someone to snuggle her back to sleep. So cute!