I’ve bemoaned the fact that Spot has rolled over only 5 times as she approaches 7 months. Yesterday she started rolling over, back to front, compulsively. She is a compulsive roller-over-er. Problem is, unlike my first two kids, she doesn’t like to sleep on her belly. With Sally and Susan, I was ecstatic when they learned how to roll over (at 4 months), because they slept even better on their tummies, but I couldn’t put them that way because of my fear of SIDS.
Spot’s now woken herself up from a couple naps, screaming because she’s rolled over. Last night my best-sleeper-baby-ever (she has quite a bit of competition, I admit) woke at 3:30 am after rolling over in her sleep. Softie that I have become in my old age, I nursed her back to sleep.
I’m reading Judith Warner’s Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, and will be posting a review when I finish. For now, I feel like I understand it, and her, because I’ve been reading her column in the nytimes since it began. She writes, critically, of the motherhood religion and mommy madness (more later, but she is so right at times and so wrong at others).
The first time Spot rolled over, I missed it; I was in the other room and Sally shouted excitedly to me that Spot had rolled over. I was so mad/upset/disappointed. How could I miss that first? And if I didn’t want to miss that milestone (arguably not the greatest thing ever 
), how would I feel if I had to miss any others?
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I am looking forward to your book review. I myself haven’t read the book but have read some of her articles about her book and its premise. From what I have read, I can agree with a lot of the problems that she articulates, but like so many others, the solution is always with the federal government. Anyway, I will wait for your book review.
I am not bragging, but Callie crawled for the first time yesterday. I jumped up and got the video camera and got some of it filmed. I am sure Lucy will turn out to be a prodigy, even if she is slow at rolling over in the beginning.