On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Julia R. Barrett wrote:

> Lying on their back, neither of my children slept without having
> something firm to push their head against. My usual sleep position was
> curled on my side, facing my baby, with my bottom arm extended over the
> baby's head. The baby's head would wind up firmly wedged against my arm.
> My husband also slept with our children like this.

Hmmmm... your post got me thinking back, Julia, and I realize that both of
my kids slept with their heads jammed up against my arm or some other part
of my body.  I awoke many times when my son was little (up to about 5
years old) to find his head jammed right up into my armpit.  Thinking of
that reminds me of something I read in some parenting book years ago that
said, "If you don't have time to shower, don't worry about it too much...
you still smell sweet to your baby."  ;)

My almost 3 year old grandson has preferred to sleep beside his daddy for
most of his life.  Even when he was tiny, he would nurse and then move
over to Daddy... which, now that I think about it, was actually started by
DADDY himself.  My son-in-law snuggles up with the baby in the crook of
his arm and the baby's head right under his face.  Justin still goes to
sleep every night all snuggled up with his daddy.  If he doesn't feel like
they're close enough to each other, he says, "Daddy, breathe on my head."
;)

> My husband and I joke that it's a comforting bit of nostalgia for
> them---both of them spent months head down in utero. My son was
> posterior at birth. Maybe *that* is why he doesn't mind the plaster
> wall!

LOL!

Cee

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