So aside from the fact that I exclusively have to personally feed my baby every two hours during the day, we have now entered the realm of baby-mama separation anxiety. A very big part of me enjoys this stage, I know once she's 2-3 years old she's going to diss me to hang out with daddy so I will appreciate this attention as much as I can. However, we've learned that we (I) have approximately less than one hour that we (I) can be away from her before she freaks out and starts crying/screaming unconsolably. Leaving her with daddy on a Saturday morning while I sleep in is one thing, both of us leaving to say, enjoy a nice meal with her in the care of someone else is completely different. We are yet to test the possibility that she might feel more comfortable if someone watched her at our home, every time she's freaked out it's been at someone else's home... so there may be hope.
I guess one could also say that we are in the midst of practicing Attachment Parenting techniques. Bedtime routine usually consists of dimmed lights, some books read and then a combination of nursing, running the shower for background noise, and some rocking and singing of "The Ants Go Marching" (no, not the Dave Matthews song)... usually by the time I get to the tenth ant, she's out for the count - somewhere around 9pm. Sometimes shortly thereafter she'll wake up crying and we pick her up, run the shower and within a few minutes she's back to sleep. By 2:30-3:00am she wakes for a feeding (still in our room, in her crib) and then again by around 4-6:00am and usually after that she's a bit fussier so I'll bring her into bed with me and feed/cuddle/sleep until somewhere hopefully close to 8:00am. 
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