Good Days and Bad Days...

We all have some good days and bad days.... well today ehh, not such a great day.  I'm TIRED, and i know that's what to be expected with a newborn and all, but this is the toughest job I've ever had.  However I wouldn't want to go back to scouting in the 100 degree heat again.

I guess it's just a little frustrating when you have a great night - when she only wakes up once and goes back to bed easily.  The past few nights she wakes up at around 2/3 am (last night she woke up a few times) and then she's wide awake and can't go back to sleep.  Not sure what to do when that happens still.  We have a white noise app on our Ipod touch and that works, but when she's wide awake, nope nothing really works.  I guess I just have to be really patient.   But after you feed her for a good hour, burp, and change...you kinda just want her to go back to bed :)

i know, enough complaining, but it's true what "they" say.... you don't know how hard it is, until you are in the midst of it all.

Oh by the way, we have her on a tight schedule, which means that I'm on the tight schedule too.  Recommended by a friend of mine - The Contented Little Baby Book.

The schedule is as follows:
no matter what - Always have the baby up at 7am and feeding...
Nap at 9-10am.
Feed at 10am.
Keep her up until 11:45/12, then nap from 12-2pm
Feed at 2pm
Keep her up til 4pm
Nap at 4pm
Feed at 5pm (one side)
Bath at 5:45-6:15
Feed at 6:15 (other side)
Bed at 7-10pm
Feed at 10-11pm.

and then repeat the next day!  Yesterday she did a great job in her naps, but like I said her night time sleep hasn't been the best.  She fidgets and flairs her arms a lot.  We try to swaddle, and she finds a way out.

The toughest part is keeping her up between feedings and naps because all she wants to do is sleep.  So when we keep her up, she cries.  and cries and cries... so it can be exhausting.

this is her sleeping now for her 7pm nighttime sleep:

she looks peaceful.  hopefully she won't start flailing her arms around and wake herself up.  Ok time for me to try to shut my eyes until Nelson comes home. 

Night night!