Somehow, every conversation about babies winds up being about sleep. This is an observation and not a judgment.  When babies are wee, you can get a little obsessive about the things you don't have, like sleep and sex and clean laundry.

Usually, the conversation is about how to make the baby sleep more  -- I don't know that anyone has ever had a talk about how to make a fundamentally well baby sleep less -- and what techniques to use to achieve that. Over on Parenthacks, a reader suggested a hack about letting your baby just sleep in her carseat. 

Some infants seem to dig the cozy confines of the car seat enough that it is the only way that they will get some quality zzzzzs. My first kid slept in hers for her first three months. If we even thought about putting her in her cribs, she'd start screaming. 

Turns out this is yet another way we could have killed her. But we also might have killed her if we never managed to string together more than 45 minutes of sleep each night. It's a game of trade-offs, this parenting thing.