sleepy, sleepy

Bailey's napped the last couple of days on her own! Big, big step. We've been putting her down in her bassinet after she falls asleep in my arms. Usually shortly after nursing. She then only stays asleep between 5 and 15 minutes on her own. Or at least that's been the case for the last 4-5 weeks. Anyway. So she wakes up and lays there for a bit, and then a short while later she starts crying. This week we've left her there and let her cry...just for a couple of minutes. And get this, she's been falling asleep after that. Crazy! The first day she only slept for like 40 minutes and just today it was for almost 2 hours! It's so exciting. I think we're onto something here. Oh and we tried the same kinda thing for the middle of the night. She usually wakes up once. Sometimes it's been hard to get to her to stay asleep. So the last couple of nights I've changed her, nursed her, and then put her back down (she's usually asleep by that point anyway). She's been kinda half crying for a few minutes and then just passes out again! Weird! I don't know why but it's working. Of course now that we're figuring something out, it's all going to change again. But for now, we're pretty stoked.