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Monday, June 20, 2005

Baby Saga, Day Two

Baby Saga, Day Two (written day three, 6/20)

The baby likes to watch my hands as I'm typing. Excellent!

Well I woke up yesterday Annoyed. I had a whole list of things I was going to type up for here about what this baby needs to learn. The ones I remember are:
- She has to (re)learn how not to wake up every two hours during the night!
- She has to learn to drink water
- She has to learn how to be even the slightest self-reliant. That is
- keep herself entertained sometimes
- hold her own bottle
- keep her pacifier in her mouth
- She has to learn either to roll over or push herself up from lying on her stomach. For crying out loud she's three months old already!

Yeah, she woke up pretty consistently every two hours throughout the night (that's not last night, but the night before, as in the night leading into day two). It was NOT cool. I only had to feed her once, every other time it was simply put the pacifier back in her mouth, so I was able to fall back asleep pretty quickly.

During the day, things got much better. Apparently I had gotten enough sleep somehow throughout all my catnaps through the night that I was in a normal mood once fully awake.

(What I learned (from book) about water, sleeping in same room, and what she should be doing at 4 months)

She's four months old, not three! I was told three, by.... someone. But clearly from everything Sherrone left me, she was born in the teens of February and it's June 20th.

Trip to mall - it's much easier to keep the baby and myself entertained outside the house. For example, Wicks & Sticks: she loved smelling the different candle scents. She was fussing while I was trying to find a scent I liked, so I said "you want to smell too?" and stuck the candle under her nose. Her eyes went real wide and she looked really surprised like babies do when something brand new to them comes there way. So every candle I tested I also put under her nose to smell. She loved it! It's almost like smells alone are a new experience for her. We did come across one scent she very much did not like judging by the look that crossed her face! But she helped me by picking out what seemed to be her favorite scent. Then we walked around the mall a lot, she liked the motion, and looking at all the different store windows and people.

Finally I came across a nail salon where the women inside just loved the baby, but I stayed for about an hour because I had found a couple women to talk to and who kept baby happy. One had a baby boy of her own only a couple months old, so she did really well with the baby. The women there thought the baby looks like me. I told them she isn't mine, but my cousin's. They said the family resemblance is easily seen. I told them my cousin was adopted. Even after that they said well the baby has my eyes! I love it.

Is she Left handed?

I don't know how to bathe a baby! :( I tried in the tub and in the sink, with water all around and without. The best I finally managed to do was kinda sponge her down with a washcloth with soap on. Didn't even try to wash her hair, that would have been awful. I'm going to have to take a class or something on baby washing.

She held her bottle for first time!

Day two went well enough. But I called Steve anyway to have him and the girls come over Monday to help me out. 'cause I have to work and the baby - as I said in yesterday's post - likes watching things going on, especially people in motion, and while I'm working all I do is sit at the computer.

I'll fill y'all in about last night in the next post.

End of day feelings about having my own baby:
- Well sure, I still feel I can do this, but boy would I have to find groups to get the baby and I involved in so I don't go crazy. I need adults! (Or people close to that.) And I'd need to get out of the house more than occasionally.
- I'd definitely rather a girl than a boy if I'm to do this alone, despite how hard it would be when she hits the teenage years.


 

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