October 19, 2000 - Thursday
I woke up this morning at 4:53 to the sound of Harry crying and, although we have been trying to be more deliberate letting him find his own way through the night, for some reason I got up quickly and went to get him so his mother could feed him. It's not as if I'm the ever-noble husband and have always been the one to get up. In fact, Harry's mother certainly did it more often when Harry's wee-hour feedings were a very regular occurrence. But, for some reason this morning, it was I who woke up more quickly and, looking at the clock, decided it was late enough in the morning to warrant a reaction to Harry's desires. Admittedly, 4:53am is not often considered "late," but somehow it was close enough to 5:00am to make me react. Naturally, clarity of thinking could have been suspect at that hour and there's little doubt that my decision had as much to do with finding the quickest way for us to get back to sleep for that last hour before the alarm would ring as anything else.

And, it worked. Harry did fall back to sleep in our bed after his nourishment, though his mother says that her last hour of sleep was fleeting at best. However, what was most interesting about this hour while we all tried to rest was that Harry talked in his sleep. Well, of course, for Harry that means babbling in his sleep, but if conventional thinking of why we dream is at all accurate, that puts trying to 'talk' as one of the big issues of the day that Harry's brain or subconscious has decided it needs to work through and digest. There's no doubt that his babbling has become more varied and deliberate and if his brain is starting to take 'talking' seriously, I'd think that's a good clue that Harry is starting to turn the corner on speech.


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