La Petite Tricoteuse

We are settling into what can pass for a routine here at Chez Petite. LL is going to be seven weeks old tomorrow. While I am getting much less sleep, food, and comfort than I would normally, at least it is more predictable. I installed a baby tracker app on my android phone today called: baby minder. After a few days, I shall do some data mining and determine whether there is a pattern forming, or if my hallucinations have migrated towards the waking hours as well.

Feeding is working splendidly now. I have some milk saved in the freezer, so I can actually leave her for and hour or two i the capable hands of her Papa without fear of starving her. The cloth diapers are working out pretty well too. We are still using sposies most nights (because, frankly, I am more keen on sleeping than dealing with waking her up just to clean a pee diaper).

Last week’s goal was to start getting out of the house every day. This week’s goal is to work on incorporating the bassinet into her nighttime routine. She is getting better with sleeping in her bassinet during the day (and by better, I mean not every nap and only for 20 min sometimes). We are trying to start putting jimjammies on around 10 pm, and reading her stories. Ideally this would lead to blissful sleep, but so far it had lead to one screaming fit and one nursing-to-sleep session- LOL. We try to put her in her bassinet then and hope for a good sleep before waking for food. Last night that got us about 30min. The rest of the night was the usual routine of me nursing her and Papa getting her to sleep on his chest. We tried to put her back in the bassinet after the last night feed ~6:30, but that only bought us about 15min before she flailed herself awake and was ready to start her day.

Nominally I don’t mind her being in our bed at all, however practically, we need her at least in her bassinet by 3 months. She is starting to move about (probably gearing up those muscles for the arduous task of crawling in the far future) and grab things. Since I am not keen on giving up my nice comfy duvet and sheets, she needs her own space before she learns to wiggle down below my waist and pull the covers over her head. Luckily so far, she is only wiggling up. Apparently, in the dark, she thinks milk comes out of my chin.

I can’t believe she is almost two months old. They say they grow up so quickly- sleep deprivation will do that to you.

Periwinkle arrived on Feb 8th in the wee small hours of the morning. The last month and a half have been a blur.  We are settling into a routine now and are slowly starting to venture out of the house. I am hoping to pick my knitting back up and start cooking again in the near future.

I had thought there would be this huge life change when I became a maman. Ok, my day-to-day life is way different, but I still feel like the same old me. Maybe parents are just big kids who figure stuff out as they go. I am super lucky that my MIL and FIL were here to help out and even more lucky that my mom not only came to help, but made it just in time for the birth as well.