3 Weeks Old

Sleeping

I am seeing a sleeping trend.  I am not sure how long it will last, but there are times she would sleep for 3 straight hours.  It is quite peaceful when she is in this sleeping mode, so I can get house stuff done!  I should probably catch up with sleep though instead of doing something else.  There are other times where I can tell she is so sleepy but she cannot fall asleep, so she gets fussy.  Poor thing :(

She had been sleeping in our bassinet for a while.  We usually go to bed around midnight and she does good job sleeping for 2-3 hours there, but after she wakes up and eat, she makes all kind of noises, so we cannot sleep! 

To improve our sleeping time (daddy needs to sleep well so that he can bring a bacon and mommy needs to sleep well to take care of little Hay), we setup the baby monitor on the crib on Monday.  Are we sure to let her sleep in the crib already???  Well, we wanted to see how if it works.  The monitor is pretty cool.  I can adjust the camera position and the resolution is pretty good in days and nights.  After our first midnight feeding (around 3am), I put her in the crib and went back to my bedroom.  SUCCESS!  I could see she was sound asleep and didn't hear much of her noises.  She woke up around 6, so I went into the nursery to feed her.

The other problem during our sleep is...Candy.  We gotta do something about her snoring right above our head!!!        

Book

I finished the book called Amber Dusick's Parenting Mas sent me.  I have been reading many books all about babies, but this one was so different.  It has tons of cool illustration and real stories, but they are darn funny!  It made me realized that what I have been going through isn't too bad.  Wait until Haley becomes a toddler and we have to take care his lil sister or brother....

I finally decided to order a book called "The happiest baby in the block".  I heard good things about it, so it was on my wish list, but I finally decided to order one after experiencing Haley can fall asleep in my arm, but as soon as I put her down in the crib, she wakes up.  The book has very interesting theory!  It talks about the reason of Moro reflex and 5s to calm a baby.  5S are Swaddle, Side Way, Shhhhhh, Swing & Suck.  I have been trying it when since she gets a big fussy at night.  I think it works!

Pumping 

I pretty much gave up on nursing even though I bought a nipple shield.  She sucked for a while (made me very happy!) for the first time, but after that, she doesn't like it.  I can tell she is so frustrated and I hate to see that.  You can call me that I am a looser for not trying hard enough, but I know stress does impact my milk production, so I decided a pumping is the way to go for us. 

I used to pump every 1.5 or 2 hrs,but it's quite exhausting and also it only gives me one feed, so I have been pumping every 4 hrs or so.  In this case, my boobs make enough milk and I can usually get 2 feeds (4 oz) in 15 minutes of pumping.  Haley is currently eating about 2 oz per meal.  She eats about every 2 hrs in average, so it's normal.

New Discovery

K'Tan wrap - I finally got it!!  It's really nice because my hands are not tied up with holding her and she seems to be pretty happy baby being near her mommy.  I play internet radio ambiant station and dance around with her!  She loves it and good for my workout ;)

White noise - I thought I had to be always quiet around the baby, but I learned that babies likes noises because that's what they are used to hear while they are in uterus.  I downloaded an app called "Relax M" and she seems to be intrigued by it.  I also tried a hair dryer and kitchen fan.  They calmed Haley down.