Baby C is definitely an "easy" baby -- no screaming, long sleeping, excellent eating. And the gas situation seems to have been something of a fluke. Now that I've gotten a little more aggressive about burping her, we've had fewer problems that way.It's just the sleep, for me. And the whole "sleep when your baby sleeps" thing is a crock, let's all look that straight in the eye and admit it. Occasionally it's possible, but I can't summon enough tiredness at exactly the right moment, when the other kids are "covered" in order to catch up on sleep, so... yeah, groggola.
Baby C is a great sleeper... from 1am until 1pm. That's the nighttime she's chosen for herself. She's happy to josh around until 1am, despite my turning off the lights and making myself perfectly clear that there is no extra love or stimulation of any kind that happens in this house after 9pm for any person under the age of 30.
And it's 12:20pm, and I fed her at 9am, but she's just sleeping, sleeping, sleeping despite my constant pestering, unwrapping her swaddle, and treating her like she's the camp dweeb... maybe I should try dipping her hand in warm water to see if it makes her pee... or draw a moustache on her.
So the bottom line is that I'm cranked with postpartum hormones, and I have an achy belly from the incision and the continuing occasional cramps, and I'm caring (with my sister's and Hub-D's help) for Gigi and Chebbles from 7am-7pm every day. And Baby C is pretending like she's the BEST BABY EVER... for a family with no other kids. If we were rockstars, staying out until all hours and sleeping in all morning, she would be the best baby in the world!
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Hrm, well 1am-1pm is pretty cockamamie hours. She might need a bit of adjustment there. FWIW, my MOST successful baby torture method came from the Baby Whisperer. Walking your fingers very firmly up and down their little spine. That and pressing your thumb into the palm of their hand kind of at the base of her thumb and sort of in the webbing between thumb and forefinger. Particularly the spine walking, that woke up whoever was Drowsy McDrowsy in our house, it made them writhe. Seems not nice, but, well 1am-1pm, with 2 other kids? Yeah. Not nice. So spine walkity walk I say! Oh, and supposedly ALLEGEDLY getting them plenty of sunshine helps set their circadian rhythm. And in the meantime, I'm glad C is otherwise a rockstar. We just need to get her the memo on proper house hours.
& did Auntie Em actually put braids in Gigi's hair? Cool! Can't wait to see that cute kid & all the rest of you guys & meet this Ms. C next Tuesday!
G.R.
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