Baby diary: 10 weeks 2 days

[petronia]

Yesterday he discovered his right arm/hand, after a week of so of only staring at his left arm/hand weaving around in his field of vision. Like a movie where the protagonist gets swapped into a new body and stares at their unfamiliar hands: what are these??

I took some photos of us doing fist bumps.

Yoga routine was mostly mat-level yesterday so I put him on the ground and we did it "together," which he loved.

Had a couple of rough nights in the past week. Vicious cycle: if I'm sleepy and he's sleepy, he doesn't drink as much, so he wakes up and cries more. Made sure to give him 20 minutes minimum on each side, both sides, at each feeding in the past 24 hours, and he's been much more even-tempered. Only got up twice last night!

Cycle: 1 hour feeding + diaper change; 15 minutes able to amuse himself; 45 minutes playing games or doing other needed stuff (eg bath); 1 hour nap if lucky.

My mom plays him Schubert's Serenade fur Nadia to get him to sleep, or Brahms' Lullaby. I only play him music for us to listen to together, though: he definitely enjoys some songs more than others. He likes jazz and 120bpm stuff -- suppose he heard lots of that sort of thing in the womb haha. Maybe I'll make a Baby's First Playlist. XD

Comments

[karalee]

Developing good taste already! It starts young :D

[petronia]

Well, at least media is under control at this age. XD

[marej]

you know, this is all very very individual and has a lot to do with whether you prefer issues now vs later when he's like an overgrown great dane puppy plants himself across the (KING SIZE!) bed horizontally with no room left for you and your general views on co-sleeping and whether you're a heavy or light sleeper, afraid of rolling over or not, and such. But for me, personally, the best thing I ever done is giving up on the whole sleeping routine theoretics, plopped Jake into our bed and made sure he had access to the boob. Very quickly, like literally instantly, he figured a way to worm his way to food when needed without him or me waking up. And it was like, hellooo sleep, how I missed thee.

[petronia]

Ha -- well, it might work when he's a little older, idk? He can't turn onto his side by himself yet, and any side sleeping position that lets me feed him also puts a huge strain on my back and shoulder, somehow. I don't have it figured out! I do take him into bed with me sometimes, with a cloth under his head to avoid spit-ups, and probably will more often once spring comes and heavy covers are less of a thing.