Zombie-stare
Since I ruled out a medical reason for the poor sleep I’ve discovered that pretty much everyone I know is having problems with their baby’s sleep at right around 4 months. Needless to say my life revolves around her sleep right now. Naps used to be so easy, she’d just pass out on my chest after nursing and sleep for however long she needed to. Easy! Now? Not so much. Getting her to take her naps on her own was a HUGE accomplishment, now I get time to myself during the day which is very needed and appreciated! Time to write, to read, to catch up on a TV show (thank goodness for DVR!). Now it’s just taking some extra effort to get her to sleep… and I tip-toe around afterward and hope she doesn’t wake after 5 or 10 minutes.
The little miss has recently managed to roll all the way over to her front. Several times. She was trying for days, then Sunday she actually did it. She looked triumphant for a second, then looked around, wiggled, and started crying because she realized she was on her belly and she’s still not a huge fan of it. So she can roll both ways now, but she seems to choose not to – or forgets that she can. Not sure yet.
Oh, that Warm Weather? GONE. And it took its buddy Nice Weather with it. Now I’m left with Cold And Fucking Dreary Weather, which is making me kind of sour. It turned cold all at once, suddenly I’m digging through Kate’s drawers trying to see if I have anything warmer to dress her in for naps. I also have a shortage of long-sleeved onesies, since she’s still in 0-3M stuff! I tried a 6M long-sleeve on her and couldn’t stop laughing; it looked huge and baggy. Not going to work. The problem I’m having is that I do have some cute 3M long-sleeved onesies, but they are not Carters brands. So she’s outgrown them in length already, before ever fitting them width-wise. Every time I tried them the neckline was falling off her shoulders and gaping halfway down her chest. Now finally it fits her chest! And I can’t snap them up. Oh well, I tucked them into her pants.
Another annoyance: socks. Most socks fall right off her skinny ankles. The ones that work the best are simple white socks from BabyGap. Only problem is that they’re size 0-3M and I have only two pairs. I want to order some 3-6M but the Gap has a $7 flat rate shipping fee. WTF, I am not paying them $7 so I can get 4 pairs of socks!! I’ll have to go into the store to see if there’s any there… just watch, they won’t have that size. (Apparently 6M is a really hard sock size to find… I’ve been looking everywhere we go!)
My new-old hobby is scrapbooking. I haven’t done anything in so long, now suddenly I’m struck with the need to scrapbook all of Kate’s stuff. Unfortunately I feel like my brain cells went all “duh” on me since Kate stopped sleeping well…
FWIW – I had problems with socks for my daughter too, but the ones they sell at Walmart (I think they’re Faded Glory brand) were great, even on her skinny little legs. They have them in 0 – 6 m size and 6 – 18 m. I can still put the 0 – 6 m ones on Kayla and she’s nearly 15 months old.
Oh then I will certainly try those! I do love the Faded Glory sleepers.
I have some great long sleeved onesies that should fit her that fit E for a loooong time! (We just stopped recently) b/c they are so stretchy! They are CUTE, and E is also a longer, but thinner baby. I also might have some socks. If you send me your address, I’ll send them along!
And “they” say that at around 4 mos, they start realizing and noticing their surroundings, which is supposedly why sleeping gets difficult around then. We went through quite a bit of that.
Oh! Great! I’ll email you. :)
And yeah, I know that’s part of it – she’s started trying to look everywhere rather than sleep or nurse. Wheeefun.
Hey if you want to order socks let me know what you want, I have a Gap Silver card and I get free shipping. :) I can just get the $$ from you when the bill comes in. I also think I might get 10% off on Tuesdays.
oh! I love you carrie.
Did you know they make little onesie extenders? So that when they no longer fit in length but fit everywhere else you can make them last a little longer? I used them all the time with both my kids. Here’s a link but you can find them virtually everywhere…
http://www.onestepahead.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=484759
Hope that helps!
I found that Carter’s socks were awesome! They have some that are labeled “no kick” and they stayed on great. I threw away every other sock that I had after I finally found something that stayed on her feet. The sizing is good too as they also go 0-6 months and 6-12 months. Fewer socks to buy and they fit for a long time. Good luck!
Kim – I thought they made something like those! Perfect!
Nichole – I’ll have to try those!
Ugh. Socks. We have the same issue with Adisyn. I have no idea what brand I bought, but that have elastic at the top, so when I fold them over they stay on her. She is almost 9 months and still wears 0-3 month socks.
As for the sleeping – 4 months is when it all changed for us too.. Unfortunately, at almost 9 months my girl is still trying to figure out that night time is for sleeping. She does have a good nap schedule that I pretty much forced one her. She MUST sleep with her brother, but that means she has to be awake at 10:30am until 1pm for that to happen.
Kate will get into a new groove for you soon. Then once you have that figured out, she’ll change it up again. :)
Walmart socks are great, also carters, Gymboree, and a more pricey brand called Trumpette. We have worn, and lost so many socks over the years. Once you need shoe like foot covering try the Robeez, They are soft, protect little feet, and best of all they do not fall off….and work great to hold all those little socks on too! Good luck finding great socks for little Kate!
I second the onesie extenders! I used them some when Matthew was smaller.
They make some Hanes socks that I like at Target, but I never bought them in the smaller sizes so I don’t know how they are for that.