Well, our girl is doing well. She is awake a lot more during the day and sleeps great at night...she definitely has her days and nights straight. Starting this past week she has slept through the night consistently. Early in the week she would sleep around 6.5 hours straight...and it got longer as the week went on. She slept 9 hours last night! This is a great thing for mom...even though I don't necessarily go to bed when she does, it gives me a short period of time to hang out with Matt and then a longer time to sleep than I am used to! Basically this means she's dropped her "middle of the night" feed and now gets 6 per day instead of 7.
She is still getting pretty fussy in the evening...honestly, I think she just wants to go to bed earlier. Right now she's put down for the night between 10-11...therefore she sleeps until 6 or 7ish (last night it was 10-7). But I think I'm going to start her bedtime routine (bath, feed, bed) earlier tonight to see if that helps with the fussiness. It's weird, it's like she knows when we're starting the bedtime routine because she gets calm at that point. She'll fuss and fuss downstairs, but as soon as I take her upstairs for her spongebath or start her real bath...she calms down. She'll still get the same number of feedings (which is key), the last one will just move up a bit. We'll see how that does. This is all like a big experiment -- lots of trial and error.
She used to go down for her naps a lot better than she is lately. I used to be able to stick her in her crib and she'd be asleep 1 minute later. Today she won't go down without crying...even though I can tell she's tired. But as soon as I pick her up she zonks out. I put her back down and she wakes up...but she'll go right back to sleep. I think she may be getting a little mommy attached. Which is wonderful -- but won't be good when she goes to daycare in 5 weeks.
Speaking of daycare, I am totally dreading it. I actually look forward to going back to work in some ways...but I do not want to leave my little one. I think the daycare we are using has a good reputation...I actually found out about it from someone in my neighborhood who gave me a good reference. And my next door neighbor was telling me yesterday that she was excited because she finally got in to the same center and can start in April (she's been on the waiting list for a while). I was lucky and got in when I needed to...really lucky...the waiting lists for those places are crazy. Can be up to a year!! As for work, my boss says he'll be flexible with me. I'll probably work from home two days a week and then work flex time the other days (like 7-4 or something...and Matt can take morning duty and I'll pick her up). The two days I work from home I'll still need help...so Judy may come help me one of the days for a few hours which will help for when I have conference calls and stuff (then I won't have to bring her to daycare) and the other day I can just bring her in for a few hours (again, for when I have meetings...if I don't have any that day I probably can get by without bringing her in and use that as a day to get caught up on reporting and emails). I'll just have to play it by ear. My goal is to get the best balance of work and home...and spend as much time as I can with Marissa. It will be hectic caring for a newborn and working...but millions of people do it/have done it, so I figure Matt and I can probably handle it.
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