Well, things have been interesting! Uxue went through her 6 week growth spurt... which means eating every 2 hours, not sleeping well, and generally cranky!
We have also been struggling with her need to suck. According to the doctor, babies need three basic things to be happy:
- to feel full
- to suck
- and something else I forgot because of lack of sleep! It must not have been important since I forgot it!
What this means for us is Uxue can stay on the breast for hours just sucking if I don't take her off. I'm not fabulous at calculating when she's full so about once a day for a week or so she was having projectile vomiting. Out her mouth, her nose... everywhere! It was really scary. The doctor said it was fine since she had no pain and recommended giving her a pacifier. That's wonderful in theory but this little stinker has three different binkies and doesn't like any of them! I didn't know it was possible for a baby not to like a pacifier! She actually gags on them!
Along with the growth spurt comes other things: more awareness of things around her and more time awake. It's great! We're beginning to get to know her little personality! I think she's gonna be a stinker! Still no smiling or laughing at us yet though.
Now that Uxue is more awake it's also more difficult for her to fall asleep. Similar to little kids when they get tired, she is cranky before falling asleep. There were 8 days in a row I had to get up in the middle of the night for 4 hours because she didn't know how to fall asleep. It's really sad because their eyes are so heavy and they fight so hard to keep them open, then they cry every time they open them!
Interestingly, Uxue hasn't lost any hair. It just gets longer and longer! She looks a bit like a baby orangutan with this hair!
Uxue had a visit from a little baby boy who was in our prenatal class. It's so funny seeing how different they are in size. He was only 3 weeks older than her, but Noah came 1 week late and Uxue almost 3 weeks early. What a difference in size! They were so similar besides that! Same sounds, expressions, everything! I had no idea babies were soooo incredibly similar. Before this I thought everything Uxue did was so unique and amazing! Little did I know all babies are this cute and captivating!
Gosh! Look at all the pictures! You guys are looking great and it sounds as though you are doing even better! Good for you with the cloth diapers---you;re a better woman than me! I remember dunking poopy diapers in the toilet to clean my sister's diapers and I think it turned me off of cloth diapers for life! lol well....we'll see!
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