The upside to being in one place for longer than two months at a time

The biggest positive is:

Le Sproglette has started to sleep through the night!

And the second biggest positive is:

Le Sproglette has started to sleep through the night!

As all parents who have been sleep deprived know, the kid sleeping through the night is a fucking fantastic thing.

I was talking to my mother on the phone the other day, and I mused that, perhaps had she not slept in something like 25 different beds in her first eight months (I kid you not), perhaps she’d have been the calmest baby ever in existence. And my mother, bless her for being so generous, pointed out that perhaps the reason she’s such a chilled out baby is because we did drag her from pillar to post. She learnt to be adaptable. Maybe. But she didn’t learn to sleep through the night until she got a proper cot in her own room and slept in that room for more than six consecutive weeks.

As soon as I hit publish, I’m sure I will jinx myself, and she’ll wake up 20 times tonight.