Kate is a fussy pants. She’s not a colicky baby, she doesn’t scream non-stop for hours. She fusses. Constantly. This morning was incredibly frustrating because, first of all, she kept waking up in the middle of naps. I tried like 3 different times in 3 different ways and each time she would fall asleep great, like usual, and about an hour into it she’d wake up crying for one reason or another. An hour may be good for some babies, but not mine – mine likes her long naps. Mine needs her long naps.<\/p>\n
So then she’d be crying to start and I’d go through the usual: feed her, burp her, change her. And that would good for all of 2 minutes. Playmat? Wah. Swing? Waahhh. Pack’n’play? Waahh! Walking around? Walking outside? Sitting on my lap? Waaaaahhhhh!! Oh. My. God. Child, what do you WANT? And of course she escalates, so the little fussing turns into crying and once she gets into being pissed off I honestly think she forgets why she’s upset in the first place. And still, I don’t know what the problem is.<\/p>\n
As far as I can figure her awake time can withstand only nursing and then maybe 10 minutes of happy time. Once those 10 minutes are up I have no idea what to do other than get her to sleep more (which is usually pretty easy to do, just not today). I can think of many different things I could do with her – if she would even entertain the thought. Some days I feel like I must be doing something wrong, especially when others talk about how their babies enjoy spending time doing things, how awake and interested in the world they are. Other days I’m convinced that she’s just extremely picky and this is just how she is.<\/p>\n
So most of the time she just sleeps. Except today when she kept waking up. She had a long screaming fit mid-day simply due to lack of sleep. But I tell you what, once we got her to sleep after that, man, she was OUT. On Den’s chest she wiggled and nuzzled and then lights out. She slept for over 3 hours, ate, was changed, then slept for another 3 hours. And she’s still asleep. Errr, I hope she sleeps tonight, too.<\/p>\n
So lesson of the day: only attempt one nap somewhere not in our arms. She just doesn’t sleep well enough unless she’s snuggled up to her daddy or me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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