We can’t decide if we have an easy baby or not. For the first week she was extremely easy, unprecedented from what we can tell. She slept for long stretches and ate well.
After about a week she started to wake up a lot more, with more grunting and squirming and spitting up. We had a couple days earlier this week where she just seemed very uncomfortable and we had to hold her a lot, rock her, let her suck on our finger, move her around in different positions. This went on for hours at a time, or more. Danielle was up much of the night a couple times. We had pretty much decided that the honeymoon was over, and we might have a bumpy road ahead.
However, today she was an absolute dream. She slept basically all day – with the exception of two feedings late morning and one mid-afternoon. Danielle spent much of the day at home with Rachel relaxing and catching up on things around the house.
We really can’t decide who Rachel looks like. When we first saw her we had a couple different theories, but now just 12 days later we just don’t see either one of us in her, or any immediate family members. We both think she looks a little like Vizzini, the character played by Wallace Shawn in The Princess Bride. But that isn’t too flattering, and she’s a lot cuter.
Joseph and I were out most the day at music class and a playground, and then after his nap doing errands and swinging by Gravelly Point to watch airplanes take off. On the way home from Gravelly Point he was unusually needy and clingy and whimpery in a very pathetic and fragile way. I also noticed that his eyes were watering quite a bit, though he wasn’t crying. It was weird. When we got home he was even worse, and then I realized that he was feeling really warm so we took his temperature and sure enough he had a fever of 100.4.
Jess stopped by with dinner and while she visited Joseph sat on the couch clinging to me and looking very much not himself.
We gave him chicken soup for dinner and a generous dose of Tylenol and I managed to coax some laughs and smiles out of him, though he was still out of sorts. He crashed hard and hasn’t made a peep since he went down. Last time he had something like this – months ago – he kicked it in less than a day. I’m hopeful that happens again.
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Cindy // May 22, 2008 at 2:27 pm |
My Pediatrician told me, the second child will not be ignored, she/he will make themself known. But regardless, you aren’t first time parents and will surprise yourselves at how much more relaxed on that “bumpy road”. And my theory is most bumpy roads last 3 weeks and then you hit a different bumpy/smooth/downhill/uphill road
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