For quite a while now, Bunny has been feeling kicks. They started before twenty weeks, which is apparently a little earlier than most folks tend to feel them, and they come pretty regularly when she’s sitting at work or when she drinks cold water. This morning, though, while she was sitting on the couch, she actually saw the kicks, and she called me over to watch. I picked up her phone, and she drank a little more cold water.

I have been looking at Arm’s Reach Co-Sleepers for almost as long as I have been interested in co-sleeping. They address all the safety concerns the experts seem to have and also don’t require a complete upheaval of our current sleeping space. And even full price, they are very reasonable as long as you don’t feel a need for the super pretty hard wood ones. Not that I wouldn’t mind the Cambria model…but we’re on a tight budget with one and a half modest salaries plus a graduate student, and I think both of us also agree that the baby gear industry is pretty out of control in our culture.