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 *********************************************** 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