Doesn't she ever sleep?

Yes, like I mentioned before, the co-sleeping really works best for us but it doesn't really answer the daytime question. She doesn't really sleep at all during the day. She may doze off in the moby or when being bounced or while nursing... but it doesn't last long and she comes out of it likity-split! So you are back where you started...

But she has started smiling and basically being in a much better mood, which is a lot of fun for us. But she has so much more to enjoy now! She goes to play group and the mom's group and she's been seeing a lot of her special friend Reese (they even hung out in a hammock together... Yes, they had a chaperone) and today she visited with her friend Frances and then we had dinner with Ryan and Susie (who has a magical ability to calm little Midge down). Speaking of friends, when she heard the good news about her friend Georgia's successful surgery, she threw up her arms and danced a victory dance!



So for Elinor, it was a good couple of days... Little sleeping, no pooing, lots of friends and many many hours of nursing. I think she'd nurse all day long if we let her.

We still need to figure out the day-sleeping though, she gets very tired but really puts up a fight to stay awake. At least we followed the advice of turning the lights off at night (that certainly helped!), if only there was an equally easy cure for the daytime...

I grabbed some fun new shots of her: bundled in her velcro swaddle, and making sure that there is no space for me in the bed...