Belle has finally turned the corner and is no longer colic! Yay!! She now only cries when she is tired, hungry or has a wet diaper. Just like it should be. Poor little thing was not a happy girl those first few weeks.
She is my little cutie pie if I do say so myself!
So far she has been growing like a weed and I think she is now close to 13 pounds. She has amazing neck strength and I swear it's not just her momma that thinks so, even the doctor commented on it. But she still is not a huge fan of tummy time, lasts about 5 minutes and she's done. She loves the Bumpo now and it helps me get stuff done in the kitchen. She also loves laying on her floor gym now!
She is still eating well, breastfeeding and is a fast eater, with me only having to nurse around 5-10 minutes total.
Her sleep? Well, she was doing really well at 8 hours a night, but now wakes up around 2-3 times a night. She goes to bed around 7:30pm and gets up around 7am or earlier. But we are working on getting her to bed sooner as they say infants do better going to bed around 6:30pm. I have read over and over the Healthy Baby Healthy Sleep books and Babywise and Sears books on sleep to get it down and it's been crazy. They say they should not be up more than 2 hours at a time during the day so it's been hard to get her to go down for naps and if we have to run an errand we are racing to get back home for naps. My life is now dictated by my children's naps. But hey, sleep is super important, right? I've become a little on the verge of crazy with my sleepless nights. My counselor friends have all said they wonder why they don't see more moms on the local news going crazy psychotic from lack of sleep! :)
And she LOVES her sister Luna. She smiles at her all the time and is really enjoying spending time with her this s
She is my little cutie pie if I do say so myself!
So far she has been growing like a weed and I think she is now close to 13 pounds. She has amazing neck strength and I swear it's not just her momma that thinks so, even the doctor commented on it. But she still is not a huge fan of tummy time, lasts about 5 minutes and she's done. She loves the Bumpo now and it helps me get stuff done in the kitchen. She also loves laying on her floor gym now!
She is still eating well, breastfeeding and is a fast eater, with me only having to nurse around 5-10 minutes total.
Her sleep? Well, she was doing really well at 8 hours a night, but now wakes up around 2-3 times a night. She goes to bed around 7:30pm and gets up around 7am or earlier. But we are working on getting her to bed sooner as they say infants do better going to bed around 6:30pm. I have read over and over the Healthy Baby Healthy Sleep books and Babywise and Sears books on sleep to get it down and it's been crazy. They say they should not be up more than 2 hours at a time during the day so it's been hard to get her to go down for naps and if we have to run an errand we are racing to get back home for naps. My life is now dictated by my children's naps. But hey, sleep is super important, right? I've become a little on the verge of crazy with my sleepless nights. My counselor friends have all said they wonder why they don't see more moms on the local news going crazy psychotic from lack of sleep! :)
And she LOVES her sister Luna. She smiles at her all the time and is really enjoying spending time with her this s
