Strategies to Prepare... Nevermind

Amelie,
You're sleeping again!  Holy smokes.  This entry will be for pregnant friends, sharing what I learned in the adventure of your coming, and for you yourself should you choose to procreate some time long in the future.

The birth preparation book that is most written-in and dog-eared of all the ones in my library is Hypnobirthing by Marie Mongan. 

It stuck because the lolling sound of her voice -- oh crap, you're waking up in the next room...
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So here is a picture of what I found when I went into the bedroom, after an unsuccessful 20-minute attempt to nurse you back to sleep (in which you did sleep but awoke entirely upon my trying to extricate myself) -- you, propped between rolled up blankets with another blanket over you for security and under you for the inevitable spit-up, hungrily sucking on your fist despite my just having nursed you for 20 minutes.  And here is a picture of what you look like, triumphant in your efforts, cooing happily beside me now.

Which reminds me, the sleep book I'm currently reading is The 90-minute Baby Sleep Program.  Today is the first day of applying it.  So far you, Amelie, have successfully gone to sleep within 20 minutes of the time it predicts twice this morning -- using nursing as a soothing-to-sleep strategy -- but you have proceeded to awaken 20 minutes later both times.  Ah well, only 50 minutes left until I try again.

More on that Hypnobirthing thing very soon (the new mother wrote naively).  Time to put you in a sling and go get me some lunch.