Should be sleeping
Sleep sounds really good right now, but I stripped the bed so don’t have anywhere to sleep. With all my hot sweats, the room was starting to smell like a feral animal den. Don’t you wish you lived with me?
My mom said I could go nap in her bed. No offense to my mom, but no thanks. I’m too particular about where I sleep.
Things are going well over here, though we are all pretty tired. Elsa is a wonderful baby so far. She only cries hysterically when we change her diaper or she has gas pains. I can’t blame a girl for that. We are able to put her in her bouncer, Moses basket and bassinet for long periods of time both when she is awake and asleep. I didn’t know you could just put a baby down and have the baby smile and look around. She is quite content to take in the world around her. Last night she was wide awake from 3-4 am, but she never cried at all. It’s not exactly fun to be up at that hour, but I can’t really complain. It is pretty easy to deal with a happy baby, even at a late hour. It’s the screaming I’ve been dreading.
She had her first doctor’s appointment today and has her first prescription. Poor dear has a yeasty diaper rash already. I knew the rash was getting worse instead of better, but didn’t even consider it might be yeast. I hope the prescription clears it up quickly.
We started cloth diapers, but only one type actually fits her and we only have about 8 of them. The others are all too big, so we put cloth diapering on hold until she is a little bigger and until we are no longer using diaper cream (since it will ruin the cloth diapers). I kind of regret buying a few of each kind. As it stands now, I wish we had a whole bunch of Rump-a-Rooz. Maybe the others will be ok after she grows a little bit.
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Several hours later, and I’ve taken a nap and am ready for bed. But! I posted a few pictures on Flickr and Facebook for those playing along at home. We have newborn pictures scheduled for tomorrow. I really regret not getting professional newborn pictures of Erik so I’m making sure I get them with her. I love pictures of little naked, curled up babies.
Antropologa said,
April 20, 2010 @ 5:32 am
AWWWWWWWWW
beck said,
April 20, 2010 @ 9:04 am
Ugh! Yeast already! Val was VERY prone to yeast rashes (killing it in the diapers and then keeping it from developing again (i.e. dry bottoms) was SO annoying. I went back and forth to cloth and disposables. I can’t remember if it ever REALLY went away. I hope this doesn’t become the same type of thing!
She is SO DANG CUTE by the way. Love those chubby little cheeks! So nice that she’s content to just lounge wherever… =)
jeanette1ca said,
April 21, 2010 @ 1:32 pm
Thank you for showing Elsa with her blanket. She is absolutely adorable. The yeast rash thing is nasty – hope it clears up right away.