who has a babe in arms right now???????

[aisraeltax]

i try to put him down, but NO!!!!!!!!! he'll sleep like an angel where he is (on top of my brest friend and in the New Native (my least favorite wrap but the one that i can pop him in easily at the computer b/c its a large and really too big!!!

so adorable...but why cant he lie on teh bed next to me so i can really surf and type??? Lol!

[Taedareth]

Haha.... I have Wesley in the Maya wrap and I'm swiveling my chair back and forth in an effort to keep him soothed and happy while I sit at the computer and try to update DH's resume...... lol!

[DreamsInDigital]

Heh. The only surf time I get is with the baby on the nursing pillow. If I even try to think about laying him down he wakes up.

[IncaMama]

rewind 3 years and that was me. for like...a year. with DS. but thank goodness Ava is nothing like that and prefers to sleep in her little moses basket. sometimes she doesn't transfer well, but usually she's fine. i can even put her in there awake and she'll just drift off to sleep in a few minutes.

but yeah...with Rowan...i could never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever put him down to sleep. ever. never ever. he still needs to nurse to sleep. *faint*

[mariposita]

me too. i get like 5 minutes a day when he's off me (day and night). dh holds him while i take a 5 minute "relaxing" bath while he cries for me in the room next door.

computer time is always one-handed surfing/typing while he's in the nursing pillow asleep.

we're currently working on sleeping next to me at night rather than on top of me. i just need a tiny bit more space sometimes!

[xkoliex]

Tori is always with me during the day.... The only non baby surfing time I get is after she's asleep for the night, but then Chris is home so I only get a few minutes until he gets flustered about me not spending time with him

[DesireeH]

daph is on my lap right now. LOL she just woke up though.......

[anonymous4_20]

Me too!

I'm about to try to get a nap out of him, though. He's getting a bit better, so we'll see how it goes.

Nice to see I'm not the only one!

[Minnow_]

Me too. I'm nak in my office at work.

Cailan is definitely an in-arms baby, but in the last couple weeks he's started to like laying on his playmat wiggling and grabbing the toys. Sleeping - that can only be done in someone's arms.

[DesireeH]

If Daph falls asleep she will let me transfer her to the swing. She's sleepign right now in the swing next to me. She also started sucking her thumb and that puts her to sleep too. LOL Problem is she has a little hicky on her thumb!

[Jeanne_L]

Elliot's on my lap sleeping/nursing. some days the only way he'll nap is with a boob in his mouth. luckily he sleeps pretty well at night *knocks on wood*
the other day i was out at the coop with him in my baby bundler, which sometimes he'll fall asleep in if i'm just walking around. that day, though, he just wanted to sleep/nurse. luckily we've been practicing nursing in the wrap, sio i'm getting decent at nursing on the go. every time i tried to take him off the boob he'd wake up and fuss. so i just let him. my mom was visiting and i think she felt a little bit awkward that i was NIP so cavaleerly (is that a word??? even if it is i'm sure i spelled it wrong. LOL) but to her credit she didn't say anything

[Thursday Girl]

she's leaning on me asleep on top of the boppy. i am going to attempt to move her to the swing b/c my butt hurts so bad right now.

courtney
oh and i can't feel my left foot

[IncaMama]

ava took a lot of work to get to sleep this afternoon for some reason...but she's asleep now finally and i transferred her to her basket. i hope she'll sleep for a couple hours. *pleasepleaseplease*

[Panthira]

Greyson sleeps a lot in his Amby. That's where he is right now. He'll sleep anywhere really.
He cries endlessly when he's really, really tired, then we know he needs to go down for a nap, and he'll scream while we hold him, but if we put him down in the Amby he'll scream for maybe a minute or two and be out like a light.

[IncaMama]

panthira - were your other kids like that or just him?

[Panthira]

My oldest boy was pure hell, but he had issues with his nervous system due to the brain damage he got at birth. My daughter (his twin) was the most easy-going baby who'd only cry if she was hungry, wet, or wanted mama.
My 2 yr old was also hell. He screamed almost all the time it seemed for the first 4-6 months. He was like your Ava and wanted to have his legs out and hated being in slings or pouches.
Greyson is like Kayla was. Owen was like Jake. So 50-50, taking turns. LOL
Owen is still pretty high needs, but well behaved. He's also smart, very smart. Kayla is more of an artist, though I don't want to label her. I don't know if their pre-disposition starts at birth, but it sure seems to.

[mkoontz]

So for once Aveena isn't on me. she's alseap in her crib (sidecar'ed to our bed 'cause it's a waterbed). She had a good sleep this afternoon and about 1/2 an hour later wanted to go down again - who am I to complain.

Now all I need to do is the essay I have due......

[judybean]

This is just about the first time since Lucy's been born that I'm *not* nak. Seriously. She always needs to be held. I'm really trying to just go with it and not fight it, but I'm struggling (as evident by a thread I created a while back about getting frustrated holding her all the time).

Lucy sleeps fabulously in the Mei Tai, but I really only use that if we're going on walks. Call me lazy, but it takes longer to put on than I'd like some days. She does like the ring sling, but I use that for short trips like to the grocery store or when we're at church.

During the day, we're attached. I know that I'm all for Attachment Parenting -- I just didn't know that the attachment would be so literal. It's hard some days. No. It's hard a lot of days. Especially with two other little ones. But then at the same time, having Lucy be So Darned Attached has really made me refocus on what is really important. Does she *really* need me to sew her a new diaper? Will the world end if Madeline and Katherine don't get to nap/sleep around the right time because I'm nursing Lucy? Will everything fall apart if I don't get dinner made This Very Instant?

Nope.

And so, we get a bit of down time. Sometimes it is hard for me to enjoy that time because I'm so distracted, strategizing and planning my next moves once she's finally off the boob. But I really am trying to refocus and re-ground myself.

Note my positive, uplifting tone right now. That's because Lucy fell alseep while nursing on the nursing pillow and *amazingly* did not wake up when I laid her on the floor, curled up on the pillow. So, right now it's easy for me to be all sweet and sappy about it.

But it's different during the day. I'm trying to change my attitude about it though

(and.. don't shoot me, but for all her neediness during the day, Lucy sleeps better than her older sisters at night. she'll sleep in stretches of 8+ hours. I don't remember the last time she woke up in the middle of the night for a feeding : ... maybe three or so weeks ago?)

[hottmama]

I've got a babe in my lap, sleeping like a baby!
Luka loves to be held and I love holding him (I also love when his daddy's holding him and I can accomplish things, like laundry!)
Luka will sleep on his own, but I don't like to put him down. I try to make sure he's in arms 23+ hours a day. I just don't think it's good for babies to be alone.

Unfortunately, my 3 yr. old is constantly in my lap and nursing, too- and my lap is pretty small! He's the one I'd like to be a bit more independent (he's sleeping about 3 inches from me right now).

[beachcomber]

I'm bf'ing right now & typing with one hand.