Ava conquered the difficult task of rolling from back-to-stomach at four months old. I feared the day she'd discover stomach-sleeping is much more comfortable than back-slumber. I was lucky for a solid month and 13 days. I came in one afternoon to her sleeping on the floor on her belly and I just about had a heart attack. I instantly jumped to the ground and rested my hand on her still back to check for breathing. "Mike! Mike! She's not breathing!", I screamed. "Yes she is, I just checked on her". Turns out it's just a little more difficult to feel her breathing when she's on her belly. After my near-anxiety attack subsided, I turned her over on her back and faced my fear not-so-boldly in the face. The belly sleeping has indeed arrived.
Now that she's a belly-sleeper, she doesn't stay in one spot during the night. She'll turn on her side, turn on her belly, back onto her side, shimmy sideways, stick her butt in the air, make a 180, pull her blanket free from it's tucking, kick the bunny across the crib, spit her pacifier 8 feet across the room. Seriously, what is it with this child's sleeping habits? I thought I moved a lot in my sleep, but apparently not as much as this crazy kid. I'm beginning to think she inherited all of Mike's sleeping habits, who is unknowingly performing advanced Yoga positions while dead asleep. The first time I slept in a bed with Mike I nearly died when I saw him bent in two at the end of the bed - I didn't see him at first and thought he got up and left in the middle of the night. So, I guess I now have two wacko sleepers on my hands.
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