16 weeks of parenthood
Spawn's advances in the last week:
- Grabbing her foot (the start of a long and rewarding relationship, I suspect)
- Rolling over from front to back
- First diaper rash.
joyouschild pointed out that if we went this long without a diaper rash, we were pretty lucky.
I stopped swaddling her last week when we moved her to her own room because she seemed to be sleeping well without it. However, her naps dropped to about half an hour long around that time. As I watched her sleep, I noticed that she seemed to be flinching awake, so I went back to swaddling again. She's almost too big for the swaddlers, so I'll need to find a better solution if we're going to keep it up. I think there are larger-size swaddlers than the ones we have. At any rate, She's had three naps of ~2 hours each. Last night she went down to sleep at 8:30pm and made it all the way to 7am without needing to be fed. She did start crying around 4:30, but by the time I'd gotten up and put on my robe, she'd gone back to sleep. I actually woke up before her at 6:30 and took a shower before she woke up. She seems to be inching toward sleeping through the night for real, and if so we're really blessed.
On the advice of friends here and elsewhere, we at least turned down the baby monitor so that I can't hear her breathing anymore. I don't know if it's practical to turn it off entirely. If she really wails, we'll have no trouble hearing her. But her hungry fretting isn't quite so loud, and it might not wake us up. I'm sleeping better, though a lot of that is just adjusting to the new status quo.
Studentbane is at a conference right now, and I'm a single parent for four nights. Despite the fact that there's nothing in the baby care I haven't done before, it's still intimidating to be on my own. Friend have come over to keep me company and make dinner for the last two nights, and that has made a really huge difference.
- Grabbing her foot (the start of a long and rewarding relationship, I suspect)
- Rolling over from front to back
- First diaper rash.
joyouschild pointed out that if we went this long without a diaper rash, we were pretty lucky.
I stopped swaddling her last week when we moved her to her own room because she seemed to be sleeping well without it. However, her naps dropped to about half an hour long around that time. As I watched her sleep, I noticed that she seemed to be flinching awake, so I went back to swaddling again. She's almost too big for the swaddlers, so I'll need to find a better solution if we're going to keep it up. I think there are larger-size swaddlers than the ones we have. At any rate, She's had three naps of ~2 hours each. Last night she went down to sleep at 8:30pm and made it all the way to 7am without needing to be fed. She did start crying around 4:30, but by the time I'd gotten up and put on my robe, she'd gone back to sleep. I actually woke up before her at 6:30 and took a shower before she woke up. She seems to be inching toward sleeping through the night for real, and if so we're really blessed.
On the advice of friends here and elsewhere, we at least turned down the baby monitor so that I can't hear her breathing anymore. I don't know if it's practical to turn it off entirely. If she really wails, we'll have no trouble hearing her. But her hungry fretting isn't quite so loud, and it might not wake us up. I'm sleeping better, though a lot of that is just adjusting to the new status quo.
Studentbane is at a conference right now, and I'm a single parent for four nights. Despite the fact that there's nothing in the baby care I haven't done before, it's still intimidating to be on my own. Friend have come over to keep me company and make dinner for the last two nights, and that has made a really huge difference.