Thought I should take a minute and document a day in the life. At 6am I get up to pump, leaving her in the arms of Benjam’s sleepiness. She usually eats around 7 and then we take a nap when Benjam leaves for work. She gets up to eat again around 9-10 and then eats again. At this point she’ll either take another nap or be awake for 2-4 hours. Whichever one she doesn’t do, she’ll do afterwards. During her alert time, after she eats, she’s interested in the playmat or the crib mirror or the swing or other toys. We’ll do tummy time or take a walk or just swing outside or read. When she gets bored of this, anywhere from 1-2 hours, she starts getting cranky and needs help falling asleep. She’ll get these little whiny whimpers and her eyes will be half opened as she fights it, yet still wants me to make it better. So we have to walk around the house with her on my shoulders, or rocking in a chair, or pat her back while burping her or any number of random motions to help her fall away to dreamland. By time time Benjam gets home around 6, she’s usually on another bottle and always finds a way to be fussy/needy when dinner is ready. She’ll take another nap (on the boppy or on in my arms) before all hell breaks loose as she enters her fussy time. I guess I should call it her screaming-her-head-off time. She’s inconsolable and we just have to let her wail it out or try to find the exact configuration of what she wants. I can get her asleep by 1, after a feeding and she’s good until a 4-5 feeding until she gets hungry again in the morning. Repeat. Even though she’s not sleeping a whole lot at night, at least I can recognize some sort of pattern to her days in anticipation of what’s ahead. She is still very sensitive to having one of us hold her to get her to sleep and while this is down right daunting and exhausting at times, she’s our little snugglebug and can’t get enough of her.
