It’s hard for me to believe that Ava’s six weeks old already, which "those who do studies and make charts" say is when infants cry the most. Now she can look into my eyes as she cries, which gives her more blood-pressure-raising power. I would say that she did reach her crying peak in the last few days, but I don't want to invoke the Parent Jinx or anything.
She’s settled into a nice routine of sleeping from 8 pm to 1 am, and she does pretty well between 3 am and 9 am (with a snack at 5:30). Now if she could just stop partying from 1 to 3 in the morning, life will be perfect! Oh yeah, she also started taking a semi-regular nap at 10 am, which is how I found time to write this.
You’d never know she had trouble nursing at first, considering her now-advanced skills. She does this fly-by, super-suction mid-flight nipple catch (have you seen that one?), and there is no engorged boob that she can’t conquer.
Her face has baby acne and is all flaky, which I’ve tried to capture in photographs so I can show her when she’s 14 that her skin could be worse. She loves to be swaddled, and sometimes, when she’s crying and crying, it turns out that she just wants to go into her crib. What? Not the sling or to nurse or to be walked around?! Just go in her crib! You gotta deal, kiddo!
Ava does love her crib, and she’s already in her own room, which is strange considering my boys stayed in my bedroom (in a bassinet or crib) until they were almost 1. Every time I think of moving her crib into my room, my chest gets all tight and I start to black out. I have so little me time that giving up my few minutes of reading before bed could lead to prescription anti-depressants. But once she hits two months (the beginning of the SIDS months), I may change my tune.
And now for the public service announcement portion of this post. I would never admit this because, well, I nearly squashed my baby, but I wanted to warn any other co-sleepers. When I take Ave into bed, I usually put her in between Brian and I, which, according to Sears, your not supposed to do. But my big mistake was breaking another of Sears' rules: turning to sleep on my side with my back to her, when Brian took over trying to get her back to sleep.
I remember rolling onto my back, then I heard Ava start to fuss. I thought, Ava's fussing. That’s what woke me up. Not until I started to turn to her did I realize I was lying on top of her! This happened at 6:30 in the morning, when I thought I’d be too awake to do such a thing.
All I can think is, what if she hadn’t fussed? The thought makes me sick, obviously. But I share this story in case anyone reading plans to cosleep. If you do, read up on the safety rules, and follow them all.
I must remember to:
• Call the newspapers to put in birth announcement.
• Mail birth announcements?
• Buy a baby book for Ava.
• Start writing in her baby journal (and start writing in the boys' journals again too).
• Write out and mail thank you cards.
• Get the boys’ hair cut, before people start thinking they’re girls.
• Stop ignoring the boys! Pull out some activity books, figure out some things to do with them.
• Buy more dairy-free chocolate ice cream.
• Finish writing Ava's birth story (it’s almost done!).
2 comments:
To have a baby who is happy just laying in her crib!?!? How much did you have to pay to get that one! ;)
So glad the breastfeeding is going better. My doctor always told me boys take to it much faster! LOL! (It was true with my kids.)
(As an aside, how low do spammers have to sink? I think that first comment is just terrible!)
spammers will be spammers. it's why we have a delete key. Glad to hear things are going much better for you!
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