So, what has G-Love been up to these days? Eating, sleeping, pooping...repeat. I realized that so much time has gone by and I am not doing a very good job documenting her early days. She is one month old today. I kind of feel like I have been awake for a month. It has been just one really long day. We just love having her in the house. B loves to give her kisses and E is getting along fine with the fact that she lives here permanently. G has been a nursing like a champ. I am sure she is over 10 pounds. Her 0-3 month clothes are still a bit baggy, but she is bursting out of her newborn clothes. Her wakeful periods are getting a bit longer. Where she used to be able to stay awake for only an hour, now we are up to about an hour and a half. The biggest challenge we face with her is avoiding the moment where she slips past tired to OVER TIRED. God help us if she gets overtired. Help our backs, help our endurance, help our sanity! When she is overtired, which happens pretty much every day at one point, she is hard to soothe and she is unable to STAY asleep for more than 5 minutes at a time. So as a result, I am standing, hunching actually, over her crib making sure the binky stays in her mouth and bouncing her mattress. Or, we are walking her and patting her bum all around the house. In worst case scenarios, Prince Charming could be spotted driving all around town in the wee hours of the morning. Then she just sleeps in the car seat for the night. Or, until she gets up to nurse. Lately she has been nursing around 8, 9, or 10pm and sleeping until 3 or 4am. Getting her back to sleep at that hour hasn't been as smooth as I would like. I am just waiting for the days when I can just pop her back in bed and she drifts off to sleep. Is it soon? I hope it is soon.
Speaking of the car seat, this child can live in it on certain days. I don't think she prefers this, but I am not taking a sleeping baby out of a car seat just to move her to a bed. If she is sleeping, she stays. Unfortunately, because I am a taxi service to the boys, she can be in it ALL DAY on certain days if Prince Charming is at work. Between school and gymnastics and swimming lessons, this girl is on the go. I feel bad sometimes because I know how great a good two hours down in a bed can feel. I think the car seat napping can lead to her over tired-ness but it is a necessary evil.
Aside from the chronic fatigue, this first month with G has been so nice. She is just our pretty little girl and we love her so.
3 comments:
Oh sweet baby girl!! I just need to snuggle a newborn. I say, let them sleep wherever the heck they will. I hope the sleeping thing gets better, but at least you got the eating thing down, that is big.
Such a sweet girl!
if you are getting a six hour stretch at night from a 1 month old i'd say you are just weeks away from a good nights' sleep ... augy was up every three hours at that age! and he sleeps in his swing all night long so no worries about g in the carseat.
gosh that sure sounds like lily. third child issues. she never slept unless in my arms or moving. she lived in her carseat has nursed practically everywhere in southern cali and has turned out to by my most mellow child. hang in there.
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