Absolutely, Virginia. I wake up many times every night. I have mentioned on Lactnet before that in my husband's Aboriginal culture being able to sleep lightly is considered a quality; it keeps the rest of the people out of danger. When we are pregnant, it is our whole bodies and minds and not just our bladders that keep us waking up; other mothers-to-be may have experienced the same thing as I did during pregnancy: vivid, fascinating dreams. Pregnant (and menstruating) women are thought, in Aboriginal cultures, to have special access to such vision dreams. Sometimes breastfeeding mothers experience the same thing in early days, although I haven't heard any teachings about this. So light sleep may be a way of letting us wake up, remember the dream, and tap into their special language. Remember, too, that the baby / child a mother *thinks* is sleeping through the night probably isn't. We know this because we have older children in our room, too. Nighttimes are very active times, even though it is a fairly rare night that each child needs any particular help from us to go back to sleep comfortably. This is true for both the "lifelong" (all *their* life) co-sleepers and those who spent much less time in a parent's bed. What is the problem with night waking anyway? As a LLLL, I take my lead from the Leaders I talked to when I was having trouble with this: "So the important thing, Jo-Anne, is to try to meet your own sleep needs." That, of course, is when I still had real needs for sleep. These, too, go away with ... age? large families? practice? *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html