Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Week 2



Dear Madelyn,

Can't believe we have known you for 2 weeks already! It seems like you arrived yesterday and forever ago. This week I think we have worked on two things - sleep and cloth diapers!

Sleeping. You have actually switched back your days and nights to the proper times pretty easily. I'm not exactly sure when this happened this week but it's pretty great. I think this is helped by the fact that you find sleeping in your crib or pack n play during the day boring, and will only sleep in someone's arms or in your Moby wrap. While for whatever reason you now have figured out sleeping in your pack n play at night (maybe because it's dark? you know you aren't missing out on something?), so you have two distinct types of sleeping. Either way, it's hard to complain when I can stay in bed for 10 hours at a time, just waking up to nurse you every 1-3 hours and occasionally wake up your daddy to change your diaper! You are really noisy when you sleep, with your little grunts and squawks, and flailing your legs and arms every once in a while. You still won't let us swaddle your arms even though I'm sure you would sleep much better at night. But you want what you want! We do get some fun morning snuggles in bed though before we get up for the day.



Cloth diapers. This has been a bit of an adventure. I had done tons of research prior to you being born and had planned to use our big stash of used newborn cloth diapers once we got through the meconium poop stage, so that we only had a few days of disposable diapers to deal with - and then to the one size diapers once you fit into them - guessed that would be 6-12 weeks down the road. So we started off with the plan, using the generous stash of newborn disposables sent over by Lindsey, friend from residency who had her adorable baby boy in May! Got through the meconium days pretty quickly, but then realized that the cloth diapers didn't fold down well for the umbilical stump so we then waited longer for that to fall off, and then your belly button to heal up enough that it wouldn't get irritated. So it took about 1.5 weeks until we switched. Sadly though, despite how insanely cute the newborn diapers looked on your little butt you were out peeing them already! And they barely fit. Clearly these were designed for a much smaller and less vigorously feeding newborn :) So on whim, I tried out the one size diapers to see if they would fit (the package did stay 8-35 lbs after all!) and they fit! Granted now you have a giant fluffy butt, but it is an adorable giant fluffy butt. Still stayed dry when you went over 7 hours without a diaper change while you were sleeping (not for the whole 7 hours straight, I wish!) so we were fully sold and I frantically bought some more to get our stash up to a useable size during a weekend sale. Somehow I only have a photo of you in one of the boring colors, but I'm sure this is the first of many.



Other things of note from this week - baby glamour photo shoot! We had your professional newborn photos taken. The photographer came out to our home and transformed our bedroom into a photo studio complete with a giant fluffy bean bag for posing and a space heater so you wouldn't get cold. 4.5 hours later you were done and while we have only seen two of the photos so far, we can't wait to see the rest!




Also went to the pumpkin patch - I will have a separate post for this so there is room for all the photos :)



You are getting more and more alert every day - and have started having more times of being cranky. I just wish I could tell what you need when you cry! So far between the crew of me, your daddy and your grandma Vicki we can generally make you happy again. And some days you're just happy all the time. We've gone to the dog park again, and also took you out to a burger place and you got to eat in public for the first time which was an interesting challenge in the narrow booth but you did great. Your mamma even got two of the trivia questions correct before we left!

We all love you so much Maddy, and are loving watching you grow up every day.



Love you more than anything,
Your mamma

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