For her first several weeks of life on the outside, my daughter slept tummy 
to tummy on top of me, usually with the top of her head jammed against the 
underside of my jaw. As she started to come to for a feed, I'd feel the 
little critter snorfling on my collar bones.

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.

As the kids got older, they'd move so that their head was jammed against a 
parent's rib cage or backbone. They still do this. If they're sleeping 
alone, they jam their heads against pillows or, in my son's case, against a 
bare plaster wall. (I'm always amazed by this---it's an outside wall and 
it's quite cold in winter).

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!

regards,
Julia

Julia R. Barrett
Freelance Science Writer & Editor
Mom to Sean (5) and Kira (almost 2)
Madison, Wisconsin

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