this will jinx me

I have been very hesitant to write about Mads' sleep patterns as I know it will jinx me.  Plus, I feel guilty.  Babies aren't supposed to be this easy, so I'm sure the other shoe will drop soon.  I'm know that confessing about M's wonderful sleep habits means that they will change very soon and likely for the worse.

For the last 5-6 weeks Mads has gone to sleep very easily at 7:30 or 8pm.  Up to about 10 days ago she'd wake up between 1-3am and then again between 4am-5am for a 20 minute milk snack.  When she nurses at night she's all business, hardly moves and goes immediately back to sleep.  I mean the kid doesn't even burp.  I don't think she even opens her eyes. 

(Confession #1: one night when Mads was about 8 weeks old my breasts were particularly full for some reason.  When Mads was nursing, and she was still about 75% asleep, she was getting some serious let-down and gulping like mad.  In my sleep haze I thought, "this is good, she'll drink a lot and then be really full and sleep longer."  Theoretically this was a good idea.  In reality though, this was a bad mommy moment.  I shoulda known better.  As soon as I lifted her upright a huge gush of milk came out of her mouth and nose and projectiled into my face and all down my front.  This wasn't just a regular spit-up, which can be quite spectacular.  No, this was a huge gush of warm partly digested milk in my face and all down the front of me.  It came out for long enough that I have a vivid memory of what it looked like projectiling out of her mouth and nose at the same time.  Poor kid.  It totally freaked her out, as you can imagine.)

For the last week she's only done the 4am-5am snack time.  Some days she'll stir at about 6:30am but just about always falls back to sleep until 7:30 or 8am.  One night last weekend she went to sleep around 7pm, woke up at 5am for 20 minutes and then slept until 9am.  That was freaky though, honestly.

She isn't much of a napper during the day though and lately only takes a few ~1hr naps. 

If I were smart I'd go to bed at 9am but I just can't seem to do it.  I typically stay up until 11pm, silly silly girl.

I credit her sumo wrestler size for this sleep feat.  My child is huge.  She started out at 7 pounds but weighs something like 15 pounds now, I'm guessing.  She was 97th percentile when she was at the pediatrician's office about a month ago, up from her last visit weigh-in that put her in the 90th percentile.  She loves to eat and seems to noticeably grow every night.  She's got that healthy pudgy baby look but definitely isn't really fat, she's just a really big baby. 

(Confession #2: I have googled all versions of "weight gain" in infants about a gazillion times over the last 3 months, worried sick that she's got some weird metabolic disorder.  But I can't seem to find any disease that would lead to her growing too fast.  Do you know if there is any such thing?)

But she is still so tiny in the whole scheme of things...  I just adore rubbing her tiny little back when I hold her...  and those big eyes looking out at the world over a pacifier...  I better stop or I'll end up going in and waking her up so I can give her a hug!