5/6/13 Sleep update

Josiah is still sleeping in his own room. We all seem to get better sleep this way since Josiah can be grunty at night, which wakes me, and my tossing and turning makes the bed creak which wakes him. If he's in his room and the monitor is on low, I can ignore his grunts and he doesn't hear the creaking.
It's been 2-3 weeks now that Josiah has been consistently sleeping from 9-2:30, sometimes 3, or a couple nights 10-4. Bryan gets up changes a diaper, gives 5oz milk in a bottle, burps and lays Josiah back down. This usually takes 30 minutes to an hour if Josiah is having trouble burping. Then I get up and feed him and pump the next time he wakes up, which is usually around 5:30-7am. Frequently, Josiah will go back to sleep again until 8 or 9. Sometimes, I get up and run or start some laundry, and sometimes I go back to bed. I am not looking forward to the day that I'll be heading to work after this early feeding.

My milk and my baby must finally be in sync. Josiah is no longer showing signs of milk troubles or colic troubles. We haven't given him Colic Calm in a week, and he is doing great without it. We still have his mattress a bit elevated, but I want to try flattening it out again soon, before Josiah starts rolling.
Today, we rested mostly. We did try to go to the Rose Garden, but there were very few roses. We might try again in a week. We decided to go to our favorite steak place since the garden was so disappointing and we were half way there. It was delicious, of course, and Josiah behaved very well.

 

 

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4/12/13 Figuring out a plan/routine

My back has been painful today, so I didn't go running and tried to keep myself using good posture as much as possible around the house. It's feeling a bit better now. I am hoping to feel good by morning.

Here is a clip of Josiah working on his arm and leg moves in the mirror and watching his high contrast mobile.

We tried a new colic medicine called Mommy's Bliss Gripe Water. We are looking for something cheaper and not black. It seems to work at first, but Josiah is having trouble staying asleep when we lay him down. So far, we have concluded that Colic Calm works better, and is a smaller quantity he has to swallow, but it's black, makes his poop black, and is the most expensive. Mommy's Bliss is a bigger quantity and seems to not work as well, but is cheaper and doesn't get black stuff everywhere.

New owl print Simplex Newborn diaper

Josiah is doing really well at falling asleep while I read to him. I think that so far a bed time routine that works is: change diaper, put on fubby (footed pajamas), nurse or bottle feed, burp, and rock and read or sing until Josiah is asleep. This works best started at 9pm, but if he sleeps a lot during the day it can be as late as 11pm.

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4/7/13 Colic

The night evidently wasn't so bad, but Josiah fussed and cried, off and on, for most of 6-11am. We had stopped giving him the Colic Calm medicine, because he had no symptoms, and frankly, black sticky stuff in his mouth and black poop are a bit of a deterrent.

Icky sticky black stuff!

 

We made it through church on 30% sleeping in his car seat, 30% swaddle, and 30% bottle. (I must have been sleeping for the 10% that's unaccounted for) :) No crying during prayer, just some sucking and grunting sounds. It was a rough afternoon. I got a nap only because Bryan watched Josiah for me. He probably needs one too, but I forgot to offer. We mostly hung around dealing with a fussy baby and watching what we could of TV shows between cries. Subtitles were appreciated. We have been unable to lay Josiah down. Maybe we don't have a steep enough angle to help his stomach pain. We decided to get another baby thing. We are rather minimalist when it comes to baby equipment, but we can't hold him upright all night, so at 10:30 Bryan went and bought a bouncy seat. Hears to hoping it'll help some tonight.

Testing the bouncy seat

 

We did have some sweet baby moments where he was very alert, looking around and cooing a bit. We are trying to hang onto those moments to help us through the crying fits until the colic medicine does it's magic, black magic. I think I'll buy one without charcoal next to see if it works, and we won't have to have all that nasty black stuff.

Moving so much I can't get a focused picture, but he smiled!

Checking out the world.

 

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