Gonneke wrote:

"My experience, both personal as professional, is that once parents
accept
thair infants' sleeping patterns as normal, they stop fighting them
and
become more relaxed and less fatigued.
Wonder if I am the only one with a hypothesis like this?"

 I would have to agree wholeheartedly based on my personal
experience as well as what I have heard from other moms.  I found
that once I became comfortable with bringing baby into bed and not
having night feedings be such a major production, I lost a lot less
sleep even though baby may have actually nursed more often.  It was
the worrying about when she last ate, how many times it had been,
and would I ever get enough sleep to feel truly rested that was
getting to me, not the actual time spent feeding.  I only wish I had
learned it with my first instead of my second.  The triggering
incident was when I dozed off sitting up in the chair to feed and
woke just in time to catch her before she fell from my lap to the
floor.  From that time on with her and the whole time with my 3rd
(and last) child, baby either started out with us or came to bed
sith us at the first waking and usually spent the rest of the night
there.
Winnie

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