Alice is a very calm and settled baby. Hubby and me made a promise to try to be calm parents and I think this has helped heaps. Alice is not a big crier, she only cries when she is hungry or wants to be picked up. She also sleeps well most nights in 3 to 4 hour blocks then has some booby then goes back to sleep. This said we had one night last week were she was awake from 11:30 to 2. Not crying, just wide eyed and looking around. Even though we keep it fairly dark during the night she still managed to open her eyes wide and try to look around at everything. I was so tired so hubby got up after the first hour when I realised no amount of breastfeeding was going to get her to sleep. We both in desperation for sleep at 1:30 we decided that we would try a dummy to see if that might help put her to sleep. Well 1st time in her mouth she spat it straight out, 2nd time she sucked a couple times then spat it out, 3rd time she gaged. I think it is safe to say she doesn't like the dummy. She does however such her hand through her swaddle at night when in her bassinet. I don't want her to become a thumb sticker and do pull her hand out of her mouth during the day but there is not much I can do at night when I'm asleep. She wakes for a feed and I find one arm of her swaddle wet. She loves the swaddle. My SIL gave me it to me when Alice was 6 days old and said how great they were. Since she hated her hands being wrapped up and kept getting them free no matter how tight I wrapped her I decided to give it a go and it was great. Alice slept better and that made mummy happy. I went out 2 days later and brought a 2nd one and I have never looked back. She only goes in it at night. We aim to have night sleeps dark, swaddled and quiet. Why daytime is light, noisy and she doesn't get her swaddle on. This routine has helped keep her day sleeps short and night sleeps long. I never let her cry for more than a min and I always feed her on demand. She also has a breathing monitor on in her bassinet which I must say is the best thing I brought. It so reassuring to know if she stops breathing the alarm will go off. Only problem is sometimes I grab her out in a midnight haze and forget to put it on hold and the alarm goes off. Opps! Alice has also been sleeping in her own room since wednesday last week. I never thought I would put her in her room so early but she sleeps better without all the noise. See her room is at the back of the house and ours is at the front on a main road. She just seems more settled and we don't have to tip toe around to have a shower before bed ect.
2nd Month
Alice is changing everyday. She has began to smile more and laugh which is very rewarding. Breast feeding is slowly getting easier as she is latching better and feeding quicker. She still loves having a bath and likes to dangle the back of her head in the water. She also likes to be sung to or listen to music. If she is unsettled we just pop some music on and she settles quickly and often it puts her to sleep.
3rd Month
Alice has began to talk. It's just babbles but gosh it so dam cute. She will take turns going back and forth with us. She also sometimes lays in her cot and squeals with excitement as she looks at the toys and chats away. She also has become interested in the baby play gym. She stares up at the toys and giggles and smiles.
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