25 Weeks

Just a few more and I'm in the third trimester! I just wanted to comment on how amazing Abigail is! The first night we were going to work on getting her out of the bed, I asked her if she wanted to sleep in her "big girl bed." She continuously said yes. When it came time, we read books, sang lullabies, said prayers and she when to sleep. She does wake about 2 or 3 times in the night, and she comes back to bed around 4:30 on, but she does marvellously. I'm not sleeping much better yet because my ears are so open so I can listen to her, but we'll get there like we have with everything else. Right now, I really support the Attachment Parenting method. Abigail is developing very well in her own time. I just wish other people would allow her to take her time in becoming more independent. She is still so young, yet people feel she needs to stop nursing, get out of our bed, spend time without her parents in to "train" her to function in society. She is already so smart, funny, caring, compassionate and helpful and every time I leave her and she cries, I feel I am actually backtracking on her development. What is so wrong with a mother and/or father spending quality time encouraging, loving and demonstrating by example (the example in which her mother and father feel is best) especially in the most developmentally important stages of her life? Don't we know what is best for her?

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