8 Weeks Old

Gosh I love this girl so much

Wow, how things with a newborn can change so much in just a couple days.  Monday and Tuesday evening this week, we had a genuine "witching hour" (8-10 pm), with full on scream-cries that lasted over an hour, maybe two.  Those cries were so distressing to me that I started crying myself. There is no worse feeling in the world than having your baby screaming (seemingly in pain), and not know what the cause is.

Wednesday night and Thursday evening were completely different.  She was calm, happy, playful, and so so sweet.  She only fussed maybe about 10-20 minutes when I swaddled her up to go to bed.

Now, I sit with her asleep next to me, and can't stop thinking about how perfect she is.  I am truly the luckiest mom in the whole world.

Milestones:

How did I get so lucky to
have a baby who likes to
sleep as much as me?

Our biggest milestone this week has been sleeping through the night!  We had a few 6-hour nights and even one 8-hour night!  This little girl might enjoy sleeping just as much as her mama does!  My body doesn't quite believe it, and is still on the wake up every 2-3 hour schedule to check on the baby. Eventually, we'll both be getting a good night's sleep, I hope.

Play date with Lauren and Caroline!

Grace and I had a playdate this week with my co-worker Lauren and her baby Caroline. Caroline was born 4 week after Grace, which is a huge age difference right now, but will end up to be nothing.  Grace was on good behavior and barely cried at all!  Well, she was calm and happy for about an hour, nursed for about an hour, then she dirtied a diaper and got fussy, and then we left.  (Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a photo until it was time to go, at which point Grace was mad and crying).  But, for an outing away from the house, it overall went pretty well.

Mistakes:

These mitts are staying on!

I still keep the baby mitts on Grace.  Every time I take them off, she scratches herself.  It doesn't matter how short her nails are, she finds a way to scratch her face.  She loves rubbing her eyes with her hands, and I definitely don't want her scratching her eyes.
Anyway, so today I decided to trim her nails, hoping to let her hands go free with no mitts for awhile.  I made the mistake of trying to trim her nails while she was awake, in my lap.  I ended up trimming some of her skin while I was trying to trim her thumbnail.  She shrieked in pain and cried and I felt horrible.  I was so mad at myself and couldn't believe I had cut her.  Her thumb bled for about 15 minutes, which made me feel even worse.  I rinsed it with gentle soap and water and put a band-aid and a fresh mitten on it.  She cried for awhile while I nursed her.  After that, she was okay and acting fine.  I am still feeling bad though.  No more trimming her nails, even though trimming is more efficient, I'm going to be filing them down from now on.

Coming Up
Next week Grace will get a bunch of vaccinations at her 2-month doctor appointment.  After that, I will have no excuses for keeping her indoors with me all day every day.  I want to get her out and about and around people.  Daycare time will be coming up before we know it, and I want her to be ready to be out and about and around all kinds of people.