Harry's Sleep Schedule

Harry's Sleep Schedule
Originally uploaded by brownorama.

So, here is an example of how obsessed one can become about one's baby's sleep. I felt the need to put together a spreadsheet that calculated the total number of hours he is sleeping in a night. Kinda crazy....I know. But hey, I spend a lot of time at work putting together charts and I was sort of missing it.....no, not really. It was more, I put the spreadsheet together, a chart was a simple thing to create....so here it is. :-) Anyway....I thought I would put this up on the blog since it is an indication of how far one can take "analysis." :-) As Dan said, however, it is nice to see the trend line heading in a positive direction. A phenomenon that I have noticed as a new parent is that one tends to assume that the phase one is in at the time - in the beginning it is the phase of no sleep - is the one that will last for the rest of our lives. When you are not sleeping, that can make you feel quite desparate. :-) But as the trend line shows, this situation changes over time. One starts to realize that parenting is not a process of establishing a status quo but rather a process of responding to the next phase that comes along. Each phase coming with its own positives and negatives. All I know, however, is that my babe is the sweetest and cutest baby in the whole wide world and I would be happy to remain sleep deprived if that is what having him in our lives meant. Fortunately, that isn't the case. But it would be ok if it were. :-)