Oh, sweet sleep

For the last nights, Kate has slept from midnight until 7 am. Wowsers. The first night I had to get up at 5 am to pump because I was engorged, but I fell right back to sleep. Heavenly. I know that it might not last, but it has been lovely.

Making up for yesterday

Kate has been an angel today. Mostly because she's been sleeping all day. As she should, since between 8:45 am and 11:30 pm yesterday she slept for maybe 2.5 hours. Total. The witching hour last night was from 8 til 11:30 and was the worst ever. But today? Angelic.

We (Erika, Heather, Kate and I) went to a movie this afternoon. The Alamo Drafthouse has baby days on Tuesdays and Fridays, and Kate slept through nearly the entire movie. It was bliss to have some lunch and enjoy a movie while she slept. And now she's sleeping again.

The first night in the crib was good (once she fell asleep at 11:30. I've now said 11:30 three, no four, times). She slept great. i slept crappy though. I moved her all of ten feet away, but I was listening harder, and just not sleeping well without her next to me. I'm sure in another night I'll be back to sleeping like the dead between feedings, but today I'm tired. At least she didn't seem to mind the crib.

Keep your fingers crossed that the angel will stay through the evening and the devil won't return.

8 weeks

Kate is eight weeks old today, and boy has she been grumpy about it. It's been a grumpy, grumpy day. She was awake much of the day, with only very short naps, rather than a very long one as she often does (along with a few cat naps). My gut has felt a bit off today, which makes me think that Kate is feeling similarily yucky.

Erika arrived today for a week long visit. I'm hoping that Kate is feeling better tomorrow. She didn't get to see how great Kate can be today. We're all hoping tomorrow is better. Hell, I'm hoping tonight is better.

Rearrangement

Tomorrow morning, Erika arrives for a visit and begins over a month of nearly continuous visitors. There is a week without visitors in there, but during that time we will be travelling to Toronto for Rebecca's wedding. Right now, the sleeping arrangments around here are Kate and I in the master bedroom, and Graeme sleeping soundly in the spare room (which is also Kate's room). Before Graeme moved into the spare room when Kate was about three weeks old, we all squeezed into the bed, which worked fine. But now Kate is bigger and it would be a bit cramped. So, in the interest of sleep and comfort, today we moved her crib into our room. We also brought the glider rocker and ottoman so we have a little nursing station set up (usually I just sit up in bed to nurse her during the night).

We'll keep the crib in our room at least through the month of visitors, and it will act as a good transition to get her to sleeping in her own room sometime after that. We'll try out the new arrangment tomorrow night and let you know how it goes.

So many things

The problem with not posting for a few days is that there are a bunch of things that I was planning to post about, but now I've forgotten most of them. It's been a pretty busy week, so I'll see if I can remember.

Kate: She has been sleeping great at night, with 4 hour stretches of sleep between feedings. This makes my life much nicer, since I only have one middle of the night feeding, which even if I'm up until midnight isn't so bad. She also broke her routine of the witching hour the other night and slept between 9 and midnight. It was only one night though, she was back to her cranky ways last night. Yesterday she was so great - awake and alert and very cheerful for much of the day. Today she's been sleeping for a long stretch, allowing me to get a bunch of things done (see next paragraph). I'm hoping we're heading over the hump that people report at the two month mark. I've heard a lot of things get better and easier after that.




Me: I got new glasses! My glasses broke months ago, so I've been living just with contacts. It's so nice to have glasses again.


Westley: He's doing much better. He's learning what makes him hurt, and avoiding it. He hasn't had any pain meds today and seems to be ok, although not as sprightly as last night. We'll continue to rake it easy through the weekend.

General life stuff: Since we got up early this morning to go to the records office, suddenly I had more time today. This afternoon, I straightened up the house, cleaned the bathroom (which was disgusting), and tackled the 'to do' pile, which has had things in it since DECEMBER. DECEMBER. I was totally avoiding things in the pile, and it's so good to have them handled. I sent more time worrying about not having done it, than it took to actually do it. Silly me.

Poor Baboo

Last night, Westley went to the nearby unofficial dog park, as he often does a few times a week (not because we are good dog owners but because our friends Kelly and Sarah come and pick him up and take him there with their dogs). Last night after coming home, he started to yelp when getting up on his ottoman. Yes, he has an ottoman. It seemed to get worse through the evening, and I let him sleep in the bedroom since he seemed to not be feeling well.

This morning, he was much worse. He yelped when I pet his side, and although we poked and prodded him, we couldn't find the source of the pain. The yelping always happened if he was climbing onto something, but then happened other times too - if you pet him (but not always) if he turned a certain way, if he bumped you even lightly. So, we decided to take him to the vet this morning to get checked out.

Essentially, it's a sprain either in his back or his leg (the muscles attach to the spine above the pelvis). She found the exact spot that made him yelp, and confirmed that one leg seems more sore than the other. He's now on anti-inflammatories and pain meds, and essentially on bed rest for about two weeks. If it doesn't clear up by then, he'll have to get x-rays to make sure it's not something more serious.

Poor Baboo. He yelped just now when he moved wrong as he woke from a nap.

Weekend report

It's been a good weekend so far. On Friday night, we went to Sheryl and Jonathan's house for movie night. We were really late getting there though, so we didn't watch the movie instead we just ate, hung around and played Wii. Graeme played Wii while holding Kate. It certainly kept her quiet for awhile.




Yesterday, we had a super busy day. We were getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner. We cleaned the house, cleaned the yards, made the turkey dinner, started a new batch of cider brewing and got the A/C fixed. We had a bunch of dog walking friends from the neighbourhood over for Thanksgiving dinner. It was really fun, and dinner was delish. I'm cooking up extra cranberry now for our leftovers. Yum.

Kate had a better day yesterday, although that could be my view of it since Graeme was home to help. We did try out the swing, which someone had given us, and it kept her quiet and happy for about 25 minutes, which gave me enough time to get the turkey in the oven. She slept through most of dinner and afterwards, which came back to bite us in the ass when she stayed awake until 1 am. We'll try for an eariler bedtime tonight.