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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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[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I will look it up, thank you! That sounds perfect.

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

One other thought I just had was this great article about the different ways babies "cry themselves to sleep."
http://www.askmoxie.org/2011/01/tension-increasers.html

My oldest and my youngest are both what this lady calls "tension increasers" and which the book I mentioned also talks about as one possible aspect of spirited children.
My middle child was sleeping through the night by eight months and all I had to do was set him in his crib and walk away. He'd fuss for thirty seconds and be out. So he was a tension decreaser.
Okay, I'm rambling. I'll stop. Isn't it wonderfully awesome how much personality babies have from their very first moments? And as they grow and develop, you can even look back at how they behaved in utero and say "Ah ha!" :)

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Ooooo - very useful article! I haven't let her Cry It Out for any length yet, and I'm guessing that she's a tension increaser and it won't work for her... certainly her distress racks up the more I let her cry (going to the bathroom, for example). BUT, usually I can put her down and she doesn't fuss... just plays with her hands, makes a few babble noises, sucks on a fist, and is out. I'm curious to see how it plays out as she gets older.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Heh! I told Jake about this article and he blinked and said, "She does both of those things - what does THAT mean?"

I answered: "We have a complicated baby."