What I ended up doing was placing the object in its own paragraph, as suggest by Jongware (originally I placed it in a paragraph cause I hadn't strategized a way to reference "between" the two paragraphs, and the 'index' property took care of those concerns).
To fix my problem I simply anchored the objects using the anchor method, which is essentially the solution recommended. I like the proposed method more because rather than assign a broad stroke of values to the anchoredObject I could get the desired behaviour with a single setting.
Thanks