I attempted -- unsuccessfully -- to prevent my oldest from going to sleep at
the breast, mostly by popping her off as or just before her lovely eyes
started to roll up in her fuzzy head.

My youngest, now 1, seldom went or goes to sleep at the breast, mostly
because in her earlier months my oversupply was so ferocious that it was not
that relaxing a place to be.   She has always prefered to finish nursing,
sleepy but awake, transfer up to my shoulder, and go to sleep there.

Also interesting, though I do not know whether it is related, she has always
cried a tiny little cry as she goes to sleep -- like, 2 seconds, just as she
moves into real sleep -- and still usually does it, snuggled on my shoulder
and all.  My comforting behavior has no impact at all on this tiny cry, and I
don't know why, and I don't really understand why she does it.  But if she
had been my first I too might have said that "it is normal for some children
to cry a little when they go to sleep," not quite realizing how others would
have implemented that advice or how it might have felt to other babies, poor
dears.

Elisheva

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