The beginning of the week, she was just miserable, with a new cold, some tummy troubles, and teething symptoms. She was just sniffling away with some random coughs and wails in there. Luckily, the second half of the week she actually perked up. Wednesday evening on, she has been the happiest, sweetest little baby (albeit still stuffed up).
Here's an update with Grace otherwise at 4 months:
Likes:
- She likes all of the toys! Toys that she used to never notice or pay much attention to before, she's teaching and grabbing for everything. And everything goes in her mouth!
- loves to do itsy Bitsy spider with my mom
- likes her play mat
- likes to "stand" while being heavily supported
- likes touching everything. She reaches out to touch our faces, and will grab anything at all that is placed near her.
Dislikes:
- She definitely dislikes it when no one is paying attention to her.
- dislikes the "Nose Frida" contraption that we use to remove snot from her nose. It helps her breathe! But she screams bloody murder when we use it on her.
- dislikes being put down to bed. She's figured out that the sleep suit, swaddle, and the sleep sack each mean bed time, and she definitely gets mad when she's put into one of those.
Sizes:
3-6 month clothes
Size 2 diapers (pretty much ready for size 3 when our current 2s run out)
Noises:
She makes lots of "ahh"s, some "ooh"s.", and "ohh"s. Each happy noise she makes is so cute and precious to me. This week for the first time, she made noises to me while we were in the car on the way home from daycare. It was so sweet, I acted as if she were telling me all about her day.
Features:
Her eye color is still a blue-ish grey! Her eyes are beautiful, and I know they will be no matter what color they end up as.
Her hair is a light brown, with a bald spot on the back of her head. I'm hoping hair starts to grow there soon, poor thing!
Sleep:
I had heard all about this dreaded "4 month sleep regression". But, I thought maybe it would be a great equalizer. All those people with great sleepers would experience a regression to night wakings again, and over here we would just continue on with our every three hour wake ups. After all, she can't regress even worse from waking up every three hours, right?
Well, I was wrong. We are now on a 1.5 hour sleep block all night long. Sleep for 1.5 hours, wake for a half hour and then she sleeps for another 1.5. It is absolutely exhausting. Each time I put her down at night (in her crib now, in a separate room), I find myself wishing "okay, it's 10:00, please please don't wake up again until after midnight." Or "okay, it's 3:00, can we please just sleep from now until 6am?" (The answer is always no).
Thankfully, we have her 4 month checkup Monday. So I can find out from her dr how many middle of the night feedings she actually needs, or what is going on with this.
Besides these long nights, she is just the happiest little girl though, so I really don't have too much room to complain. She's happy to play on her play mat, entertaining herself for up to a half hour now. She smiles all the time and even giggles sometimes.
Today is my first day of spring break, and I am just going to cherish every single moment I have cuddling and holding her while I'm off, even these never ending middle of the night moments. I know they won't last forever, and I know she won't fit so perfectly in my arms forever. So I'm just going to hold on tightly while I still can.
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