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[ellenmillion]

I got THREE naps yesterday, one of them particularly good, and last night we got Very Good sleep - one block of 3 and a half hours! No diaper leaks, one false alarm, only one round of nursing and it was back to sleep every time, right away.

I was reading one of my baby books yesterday, and there was a section on 'Difficult Babies.' The first type of 'difficult baby' was: the Active Baby. It was like a checklist of Elsa, starting with wiggling in the womb, through sleeping less than other babies and being bright and alert most of the time. The biggest danger of an active baby is that they hurt themselves accidentally. I never, ever would have classified Guppy as a 'difficult baby,' not even yesterday morning, nor would I want her any other way.



Active baby is active!

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[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

After reading a few baby books I... stopped reading them. And parenting magazines. Because of exactly what you note: they will frame something that seems within normal human variance as "difficult" or "problem." I really didn't want them giving me those impressions, you know? :P

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I've taken them all with a grain of salt, but yes... about ready to put them all aside. What's the saying? Average is for populations. :P