Happy to say that Evy's been sleeping through the night again. Its been nice to get a full nights sleep repeatedly. We're still keeping her in the co-sleeper in our room though, I find she's been sleeping better (or maybe I just sleep better :P) and not waking up all snarf-aly.
This week also started a new bedtime routine. Bath every other night, and in bed by at least 8:30pm every night. All of the parenting websites I follow are explaining to me how important it is not to nurse her to sleep - so we've been working on that. It breaks my heart to have to put her down when she clearly wants to snuggle to sleep with me - but I don't want to make the transition harder for her in the future. She only fusses for a minute or so, as I don't put her down until she's pretty drowsy, so at least I don't have to hear her heart broken cry for too long.
She's over her pacifier - and I'm a little sad. I really enjoyed watching her be comforted by it. Oh well, probably for the best that she didn't become dependent on it. Who knows, maybe she'll start to enjoy it again once she starts to teethe.
Speaking of teething, we're wondering if she might be starting early. My baby book says that baby can "teethe" for up to 3 months before any teeth are noticeable, and she is 3 months old so I can see it being possible. She's in love with her fist right now, and she's drooling like a leaky facet - but reading in my baby book about symptoms and its obvious that the signs are so broad its hard to tell unless we can feel the hard nubs forming - which we cant. We're going to pick her up some teething items tonight and see if they'll help.
My milk production is also doing very well! I really don't worry about it at all anymore, and slowly but surely my frozen supply is growing which will help when I menstruate again. I pump approximately 12 oz a day even though Evy only needs 8 oz on average - so building is taking a bit of time.
All in, everything is going really well right now :)
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I'm so tired today. Evy's been waking up at 3am for the past few nights and it's killing me. Normally, I don't think it would be such an issue, but 3am is so close to my normal time to wake up that I find I'm unable to fall asleep fully again before I have to get ready for work at 5am. So I feel like I've woken up at 3am for awhile. I'm just kicking myself for not following my instincts - in regards to needing to wake Evy up to nurse. If I'd never started doing that she could very well still be sleeping straight through the night. But no, I listened to the lactation consultant when I should have listened to myself. Lesson learned. My plan, to get her on a better night time feeding schedule, is to wake her up at around midnight or 1am - that way I have a good 4 or 5 hours to sleep before having to get back up. Let's cross our fingers that it works. Yesterday Paul & I went to a second-hand children's store called Once Upon a Child. When I first found out I was pregnant I never thought I'd shop at a second hand store because of safety/health issues. However, I've definitely changed my opinion. Evy's infant car seat is used, and it's been working very well for us. We didn't want to buy one of those new if we didn't have to because I knew it was a good possibility that she'd grow out of it quickly however we didn't want to chance her safety with an infant/toddler combo. Since we had an infant carrier, we didn't need the ones that seemed to come with all of the strollers - bumping their prices up to over $200. So, we decided to check out the second hand store and found a great one for only $50. Its a Graco Metrolite, which means that it fits - and locks - Evy's infant carrier. Also, it's not TOO girly (yeah, it's pink - but luckily that's just accent), it's light, & folds easily.
SCORE! Saturday was a bit long. Evy really didn't want to nap and only wanted to be held and the heat added to both my exhaustion and my frustration. By the time we got her to bed at nine o'clock I was wiped. Paul had to wake up early and work so he left at four in the morning - and I went back to sleep. I woke up again at 6am, 7:30am & finally forced myself out of bed at 8am. I was shocked that Evy hadn't woken me up - ever since I began to wake her to nurse (though with the realization of why my milk supply was low - I'd decided to stop) she hasn't been sleeping through the night. But, at 8am she was still asleep in her bed. I picked up my book and read for about a half hour until I heard her beginning to wake up. Yesterday was Evy's 2nd doctor's appointment, this week she started her 12th week. Thursday night, pretty soon after I got home Paul handed Evy to me. I said hello to her and she coo-d back at me! It was a first because usually she'll just coo continuously and not really in response to anything I've said to her. But this time was different! She coo-d at me, so I said something more to her and she did it again! Four or five times she'd "talk" to me and pause to let me say something to her - it was amazing!!! Recently it feels like all my posts have been about breastfeeding - and I feel like a broken record saying, "Its broken!" and then a day later "Its fixed!" and then "It's broken again!" and "Its fixed again!". On a happier note, Evy's been doing really well! Despite our bumps in regards to breastfeeding I've been noticing a lot of little quirks that I just love about her. 2. I was against the pacifier at first, but now I'm not. Despite the fact that I'm not with her all day, I'm still able to see those "cues" and one of them is her fighting sleep. When I see she's doing that I'll stick the pacifier in her mouth and she'll begin to suck on it vigorously and almost instantly fall asleep. Its. ADORABLE! We bought her a new pacifier, pictured here, and when she's using it I just want to scoop her up and hug her to death! Aside from it being cute as hell, it's also very easy for her to grab onto and hold in her mouth. 3. She loves it when I sing to her. Seeing her excitement and smiles when I sing "ABC" or "Down by the Bay" completely melts my heart. She seems generally comforted by it and I love that. I don't know if it's because I've only been a mom for less than three months, but I have very little confidence in my ability to make her happy. She's giving me more confidence though, she's so perfect! We have a fun time when she's on her changing table - often I read "Good Night Moon" or poems from "Where the Sidewalk Ends". As soon as I hunt up my illustrated copy of "Peter Pan" I'm going to start reading that. I can't wait until she's old enough to enjoy Harry Potter! 4. She's stopped pooping regularly. This might not seem cool to some, but as a parent it's funny to me :P Whenever we hear her farting we get really excited and when we change her diaper its as though we're waiting for the lottery. We do our own victory dance every time she poops now! For those out there who don't know, breast fed babies have been known to go up to 14 days without pooping. Her longest so far is six days. As the title says, I'm still struggling in regards to my milk supply. The last time I posted I called it a success, and it was - for about a week. The beginning of this week proved to be the beginning of another downfall in production (ugh, I sound like a factory...) and I began to worry about it again. |