Life with Baby Willow
Tomorrow she will be four weeks old. We have been working on breastfeeding and getting her to sleep. She likes to fall asleep in the Ergo carrier and if we put her down in the crib at the right time she sleeps for quite a while in the crib or the Pack N Play. Her wiggling is awesomely cute. I'm learning her cries. She tends to cry loudest and longest when she is hungry. When she's tired or bored the cries come in waves. She moves her hands like she's playing the bongo drums when she's agitated. She makes the cutest faces. I can't wait to see what color her eyes are! Her hair seems reddish.
Yesterday I got to take a long bath/shower thanks to my friend Carla. She came over to keep Willow company and feed her a bottle of breastmilk while I got to relax. I was extremely tired yesterday but there was not really any time that Willow allowed me to nap. Maybe I'll be able to do it today.
The days go by quite slowly, but also quickly. For example, I can't believe it's already 3 in the afternoon, yet yesterday feels like it was last week.
I'm hanging on to the fact that one day she will be awake more and she'll be more interactive. Right now I have to either carry her with me or leave her in some kind of bed or the car seat. I still check to make sure she's breathing. She wakes me up in the night with little noises, and if I decide to stay in bed for just a while longer she just gets a bit louder. By the time I get up and bring her out to change a nappy and feed her she tends to start with the crying.
She doesn't mind noise and seems to be soothed by it. She is wearing cloth nappies and they are super huge on her--they make her have a big butt. As a result, the newborn-sized jammies fit best, except around the butt area. My favorite jammies of hers fit very strangely because of this.
We took our longest trip ever with Willow this past weekend. We went to Hanford. It ended up being a kind of a trial run for the Thanksgiving weekend. It will be interesting to see how we manage caring for her at Mom's house in Solvang.
I wish I could have blogged more over the past four weeks, but my life has been revolving around the baby, as it should. I leave you now with a photo taken the morning of November 8. I woke up and looked over and saw how cute she was and had to capture the moment.
Yesterday I got to take a long bath/shower thanks to my friend Carla. She came over to keep Willow company and feed her a bottle of breastmilk while I got to relax. I was extremely tired yesterday but there was not really any time that Willow allowed me to nap. Maybe I'll be able to do it today.
The days go by quite slowly, but also quickly. For example, I can't believe it's already 3 in the afternoon, yet yesterday feels like it was last week.
I'm hanging on to the fact that one day she will be awake more and she'll be more interactive. Right now I have to either carry her with me or leave her in some kind of bed or the car seat. I still check to make sure she's breathing. She wakes me up in the night with little noises, and if I decide to stay in bed for just a while longer she just gets a bit louder. By the time I get up and bring her out to change a nappy and feed her she tends to start with the crying.
She doesn't mind noise and seems to be soothed by it. She is wearing cloth nappies and they are super huge on her--they make her have a big butt. As a result, the newborn-sized jammies fit best, except around the butt area. My favorite jammies of hers fit very strangely because of this.
We took our longest trip ever with Willow this past weekend. We went to Hanford. It ended up being a kind of a trial run for the Thanksgiving weekend. It will be interesting to see how we manage caring for her at Mom's house in Solvang.
I wish I could have blogged more over the past four weeks, but my life has been revolving around the baby, as it should. I leave you now with a photo taken the morning of November 8. I woke up and looked over and saw how cute she was and had to capture the moment.