Man. Time flies when you’re having fun eh? This little monster certainly keeps us busy. Things are still good. She’s getting so big! And so long!
We’ve learned some new things this week. For about the past week Ellie’d been getting really fussy towards the end of her bottle and it was taking her like 30 min to eat – which is double what it used to. Then, when we’d hold her afterwards, she’d cry and try to climb up us. We thought she had bad gas. Turns out, she was hungry. Apparently she quickly outgrew the slow flow nipples on her bottle and she couldn’t get enough out fast enough, so she’d give up eating but still be hungry. We switched to medium flow nipples and she’s back to eating like a champ. She’s up to somewhere between 3 and 4 oz now, and she’s not hungry after she eats anymore 🙂 In fact, she looks like this:
She cries louder and more forcefully now and it’s hard to tell what she wants. Well, the other thing we finally figured out last night is she cries when she’s too hot. I was giving up last night trying to figure out why again she was screaming and wouldn’t settle down (and you know how much patience you have at midnight with a child screaming in your face for half an hour – there’s nothing wrong with those lungs) – she was hot. I put in her a long sleeved onesie to sleep because we had the air conditioning on and it blows on her at night, but it hadn’t cooled down all the way yet. We peeled that long sleeve thing off and she stopped. And I thought you have to be kidding me. So, now we know. She’s much cuter calm:
In the honest part of this post, we had sort of a rough weekend. We’re starting to get a little burned out. Having a newborn for 10 weeks is taxing and we just never have time to do anything and can’t go anywhere – and the sleep deprivation doesn’t help. It’s hard to know you only have an hour’s worth of stuff to do during the day and you just can’t get it done. And always trapped in the house or going out alone. I think we’re just going to have to suck it up and start trying to take her out and see what happens. Worst case we retreat to the car and cry and go home and try again later. But we still love her and are super happy she’s here 🙂 How can you not be when she’s this cute?
