Baby Steps

So much going on! Katie is finally starting to get her groove back, but not before it totally and completely exhausted me.

Eric really stepped it up last night. He did dinner and took care of the kids when he got home from work and I went straight to bed. I've been fighting a virus on top of little sleep.

Today was the first day that I did not visit Katie over my lunch break. I had lunch at Nieves with some friends instead. I just took an extra bottle. Debbie said she did great, but I don't think it's something I'm going to be making a habit of just yet.

I'm very ready for Katie to sleep unswaddled the majority of the night in her crib. We thought we'd give it a go the other night and by 11pm, we swaddled her up and put her in her swing. I have removed the sleep positioner from her crib. I could tell she missed it at first because she loves being wedged down into it, but she's gotten used to not having it. Baby steps....

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of our trying times with Katie. I'm holding my breath that we won't be increasing the zantac again, but discontinuing it instead. She'll be 5mo on Tue, so in only 1 more month, we'll start trying some solids! Especially because of her tummy troubles, I've decided to wait the entire 6mo to give her system plenty of time to totally mature.

Since she's obviously doing a bizillion times better, I feel much better, but I still mourn what I feel like is the loss of her infancy, not enjoying my maternity leave, etc. I was heartbroken the other night when I realized how few pictures we have of Katie sleeping because the times we were able to get to get her to sleep, we were terrified to wake her up.

I can't wait for that selective amnesia to set in where you forget things like painful pregnancies, terrible labors, and colicky babies. If it wasn't for this amnesia, I'm convinced nobody would have more than one child.