The difference a day makes

[judecorp]

So today is a totally new day. It's amazing.

Gus had her scream-out at around 6:00 last night instead of midnight, when we were both awake and up for bouncing and rocking. After she got her scream on, she was everyone's favorite little baby and she went to bed around 11pm. Up at 1, up at 4, up at 7... but hey, I'll take it. She also slept most of today but for whatever reason has decided that today she is content to sleep in things (bouncy seat, pack and play) instead of just on a person (i.e. me) so I have been able to do a lot of laundry and run the bottles through the sterilizer so I can fill then up again.

My smurfbrother and SIL were in town for the weekend and it was hecka sad to see them go. I like spending time with them so much, and they were so in love with the baby, so that's fun. I can't wait until they have their own baby and I can fall in love with that baby, too! I just hope we didn't scare them away with a weekend of fussing and poop.

We finally ran out of newborn diapers (how we stuffed a 5-week-old baby into newborn diapers is amazing) and were able to break into the cloth stash. YAY! Fuzzy-butt baby! She has rejoiced in this by pooping in the last eight diapers in a row. I'm not even kidding. She has pooped EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. She has never done this. I take this to mean that she approves (or that the diapers are pushing on her guts, heh).

Today is a good day.

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Thanks to everyone for your sympathies and suggestions. The suggestion to sleep/nurse is a good one except for the fact that I don't make enough milk to exclusively nurse for a feeding. She nurses for about five minutes, sucks the half-ounce or so of milk out, and then I need to heat up and feed her a bottle. So I can't really just pull her into bed and drift off, because the bottle stuff takes work. But it's yet another reason why I wish I could nurse!

I think now that she isn't waking up every two hours or so, my supply is starting to drop off. SAD. She still wants the boob, though, so I can at least dig that.

Comments

[mollysummer72.livejournal.com]

hey, I don't want to be preachy. But I got this book, and it literally changed my life wrt to sleep and babies. I mean, changed my life. So let me know if you're interested, I'm sure you have people on all sides of you all in your ear about how to get her to sleep. But what we do works for us, and worked for the last one, and I love love LOVE being able to depend on him to sleep.

[kivioq.livejournal.com]

just curious what the book is, since i'm going to be dealing with these issues one day and like stockpiling books that come highly recommended.

[(Anonymous)]

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. Mostly the part we took and used from the book is how to put the baby down AS SOON AS they start to yawn, and the author goes into great detail on the science of sleep in kids and how they need to recharge after an hour to 2 hours awake. So when we started doing that, he started going to sleep on his own. When he is overtired, if we miss his cues or keep him up too long, that's when he cries and won't fall asleep without a whole lot of holding and feeding and walking and jiggling.

[kivioq.livejournal.com]

thanks so much! the book and ideas sound great.