My Fair Baby

Ruby was such a wonderful sleeper last night. It felt so wonderful and I was so proud of her that I needed to blog about it. When you are a mother of a baby or any child really - your patience, your willingness to sit up in the middle of the night - night after night and your general mood towards children is all affected by how much sleep you get. Yesterday Ruby's napping was all messed up and she was sleeping most of the late evening. This made me pretty worried that she wouldn't give me a good night last night. I fed her around 9 pm and put her to bed. Andrew and I watched the rest of our movie together and went to bed ourselves around 11pm. I expected to have to get up with her soon to nurse and wasn't looking forward to the night. She didn't wake up until 3:30am!! Read it again 3:30 AM! It was so great. I woke up just before her of course around 3 - with a grapefruit chest but a happy heart. I laid there too happy that I got to sleep so well to go back to sleep and when she did start to wake up it was a pleasure to feed her even though it only relieved one side. Nothing feels better than being super full and hearing the continuous chug swallows of the baby that is relieving that fullness. Then to have them so milk-drunk that they are floppy and heavy in your arms.

I'll just leave you with the lyrics to the famous song from the Broadway play "My Fair Baby"
"I could of nursed all night,
I could have nursed all night,
and still have expressed some more.

I could have hugged her tight
and forgiven her for all the nights before.
I could have nursed all night
Though glad to not wake up more."