The sure fire way to get her to sleep is to wrap her up tight and hold her in the cradle position with her head in the crook of your arm. This is her happy spot and she'll fall asleep there while I'm moving laundry, making Gus lunch, or unloading the dishwasher with the other arm. She's not as crazy about slings (though she's getting better now that I'm insisting) or sleeping on chests.
She's an easy baby, eating, and sleeping, and gaining weight well. It's amazing how much she's grown in just one month. We're estimating that she's gained two pounds now, and she's out of newborn sizes.
She makes chirpy little newborn sounds and is starting to coo. She seems easily bothered by loud sounds, which is a bummer with that brother of hers and the dog around...Kona sniffed her when she first came home, but as long as he's not barking, she doesn't seem to notice him yet. Meanwhile, her second night home she was crying during a diaper change in the wee hours, and Kona started whining as she cried. He "complained" the entire time and when she calmed down he literally gave a big doggy sigh. Apparently she was keeping him up. I almost kicked him out for that one.
There's so much fun mystery in a newborn. What will she be like? Who does she look like? What early signs of her personality will we only realize when we reflect back?
And it all goes so fast. So we're getting in all the snuggles we can.
So cute! She looks so long already... is she tall for her age? :-)
ReplyDeleteI think she was somewhere in the 80s percentile-wise for height.
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