This Just In

My wife has taught me two incredibly valuable things about baby’s nap time. First she taught me that if baby wakes up as she’s being lowered into her crib and you put your hand on the small of her back, she’ll go back to sleep. That single piece of information is probably the most valuable one anyone has given me about the nuts and bolts of parenting. The second thing she taught me was that if baby wakes up and won’t stop crying she’s probably both hungry and sleepy. The solution: feed her and get her back down. That has also given both baby and me some better afternoons than we would have had otherwise. Today baby woke up in her hungry and sleepy mode. After feeding her, I tried to get her back down but she wouldn’t quite take the bait. She would sleep on my shoulder but not in her crib. I gently lay down in a bed in the guest room we use for napping with baby lying on my chest, and she slept that way for nearly an hour. Though it was the second or third time it has happened, it still felt like watching a Biblical miracle take place. This just in: I am in love with my baby.