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8th January 2009
Funny Moments With Your Baby Girl
If you are a vain person, you must leave vanity at the door when having a baby. I watched Brad Pitt in a recent interview about how he has done it all in terms of fatherhood - nothing phases him anymore - and if you are a mommy or daddy with little ones in your house - you probably have experienced similar funny moments where your perfect outfit is quickly in need of a change, along with your adorable little child’s outfit. If it’s not spit up, it’s toot - toot, grunt, snort, or something else going on. It’s all part of a day’s work for a mom taking care of her child - and humor is required to get you through the day. I choose to laugh through it all on most days, however as noted on the blog entry of the 6th - there are indeed moments at 4 a.m. that are not as fun.
- Waking up to cuddling a car seat - and your baby inside it. A new form of closeness.
- Listening all night, and learning to tune it out, to grunts and snorts sounds from your little one
- Getting Melina all ready for the day - and leaning in to give Melina some loving kisses - holding her hands and having some warm fuzzy mommy daughter time, a big grin on her face - and what do you think she did? Well, okay she didn’t spit up - that came later - just a toot toot right in my face - just made me laugh.
- After the fresh new outfit for the day, washing Melina’s face, her hair, major spit up, well unless you compare it to later in the day - figured a bath was in order after all.
- Sitting down on the couch to have some quiet time after working with Jessica - feeding Melina a bottle of formula, giving mommy a break from pumping or feeding. Meanwhile Lucky, my dog, trying to figure out how to maneuver some couch space for herself - and just about the moment she was going to jump up and join us (safely of course), Melina upchucked a very large portion of her formula dinner. In fact, if you saw People’s Choice Awards tonight, the Reese Witherspoon moment where the baby spits up ALOT on her pretty black dress - yes, that much.
- Changing her diaper, and just missing the projectile - in fact, feeling quite lucky about this.
Some not so funny moments - after the last two seemingly “funny” moments, as I tried to figure out how to satisfy her - wondering if Melina simply had an upset tummy this afternoon, or evening. I was a little concerned about feeding her much of anything, she had returned to the breast but didn’t seem to be eating much, just pacifying and falling asleep. She had swallowed the formula so quickly earlier, and cried when I took it away to burp her, I wasn’t surprised that she spit it up, but later, she just couldn’t get comfortable. Forget the 8:30 bed time concept. It ended up being closer to 10:45 p.m. before she finally quieted down, after being held, rocked, breast fed, formula fed, put in the car seat only for her to cat nap for 20 minutes, rocked again - but finally she went down and fell asleep. And all is quiet again - and we’re back on target again for the three to four hour feeding schedule.
I think what might have happened today - she got overtired. She didn’t go down for her 2:30 nap, and only had cat naps this afternoon. There was no two hour nap at all in fact, and this can be bad for baby.
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