No pics today, but a quick update.
First, the best news is that Annika is up to 8lbs 8oz as of Thursday! Finally up to (and beyond) her birth weight, and only a week late. Go team!
However, just when we think we have got a handle on things and Annika gives us two or three nights of solid feeding followed by solid sleeping, she reminds us that SHE is in control. We've had a couple serious meltdowns coupled to very erratic feeding and sleeping. We're talking the full show here, 45-minute scream-fests where we cycle through the short list of BabyTroubleshooting 101 and utterly fail to find a way to calm her. Eventually we default back to trying to feed her, despite the fact that she ate less than an hour before - which calms her, for about 2 minutes. Then she's back to fussing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
The good days are getting better and the bad days couldn't get much worse, so I still feel like we're making progress, but "the groove" is proving to be elusive. Wish us luck!
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My breastfeeding consultant gave me the best advice once. When in doubt, feed her. It worked. Megan never fussed after I adopted that one. Sounds like you are all finding your groove. Good job.
ReplyDeleteKathy
Babies have no sense of proportion. Some tiny annoyance will cause nearly as much upset as a severed arm. You fix everything you can, recheck on hunger, and then sometimes have to let her find a way to calm herself. It's a lesson she'll need to have learned as the years go by.
ReplyDeleteFree relative advice like all the rest worth every penny...
Oh, and if it gets really bad the book is Richard Ferber's "Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems." Don't know about the new edition but the old one was a lifesaver with Katrina and I believe good prophylaxis with her sibs.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe the propaganda saying his technique is just "let her cry it out." That alone doesn't work and Ferber knows it. There's a lot more to his approach and it works, building skills she'll use the rest of her life.