Eight hours...
Bella slept for EIGHT solid hours last night. However, I only slept for about four of those hours. What was I doing while she was sleeping?
* Showering. For the first time in two days.
* Eating. Without worry of dropping food on babies head!
* Answering a few online debates, because, yanno, having a two month old baby is no excuse for not responding...
* Watching my husband sleep while wearing Bella in the sling, his head thrown back and relaxed on the couch.
* Waiting for her to wake up with baited breath! I just KNEW she'd wake up any minute.
When she didn't I finally put her in bed, swaddled, next to me. Actually she was on my arm for the first part of the night and since I KNEW she would wake up any second I had to wake my husband up to turn the heat up for me (I was freezing). Then I laid there all tense, lightly dozing but knowing that *at any moment* she would wake up, probably want to eat, then want to play for an hour or so. I psyched myself out so that I wouldn't get upset when she did this (It's not her fault, she is a baby, she doesn't understand, it's going to be ok, you'll sleep eventually). I waited, and waited, and finally about an hour and a half after I first laid down with her I fell asleep.
To wake up at 7am feeling kind of human again. Amazing what four solid hours can do.