MrsChezek
Eagerly Expecting #2
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Hayden won't take a paci either...it triggers her gag reflex and she starts crying when you put it in...ONCE IN A WHILE, she'll accidentally start sucking on it and it stays in and she likes it but then she unintentionally spits it out and that's that...she's found her thumb today too so now we're screwed 
I give her boob before she goes down which is why she normally doesn't go down for a nap that soon after waking up, as she has boob just after she wakes up. So I wait until she's tired AND hungry which is usually around 1hr 15m or 1hr 30m...she falls asleep while I'm breastfeeding her and after about 5 minutes I lift her onto my shoulder to burp and relax a bit upright for another 25 minutes. Assuming she stays asleep at this point, I transfer her to either her belly or into a baby carrier. If she doesn't stay asleep when I lift her to burp, then I transfer her into the carseat and either go for a drive or a walk. She usually falls asleep in the carseat but I can't stop moving...if the car stops or I stop pushing the stroller, she wakes up within a couple minutes!!!! Makes red lights VERY painful
She does transfer pretty well from the car into the stroller so if I start driving and she falls asleep I can go to the mall or a park and transfer her into the stroller and she'll stay asleep. As long as I do it VERY quickly and start moving again right away. It's a friggen' circus if I really think about it!! 
The things we do for a nap... 
At night I just feed her, DH takes her up, burps her, tightens her swaddle and puts her into the crib and voila. Sometimes, if she's more awake, he'll bounce her on the exercise ball for a minute and put her down. He always puts her into the crib awake though and she just falls asleep on her own. Now why can't this happen during the day??? I don't get it. She's capable of it at night and she can connect her sleep cycles as she sleeps for 6-8 hours straight through!! But during the day she's restless and wakes up crying every 15 minutes. She usually falls back asleep luckily with some tapping and shushing but you have to be within 5 seconds of her cause if she actually wakes up fully the nap is over. Insanity
I give her boob before she goes down which is why she normally doesn't go down for a nap that soon after waking up, as she has boob just after she wakes up. So I wait until she's tired AND hungry which is usually around 1hr 15m or 1hr 30m...she falls asleep while I'm breastfeeding her and after about 5 minutes I lift her onto my shoulder to burp and relax a bit upright for another 25 minutes. Assuming she stays asleep at this point, I transfer her to either her belly or into a baby carrier. If she doesn't stay asleep when I lift her to burp, then I transfer her into the carseat and either go for a drive or a walk. She usually falls asleep in the carseat but I can't stop moving...if the car stops or I stop pushing the stroller, she wakes up within a couple minutes!!!! Makes red lights VERY painful
She does transfer pretty well from the car into the stroller so if I start driving and she falls asleep I can go to the mall or a park and transfer her into the stroller and she'll stay asleep. As long as I do it VERY quickly and start moving again right away. It's a friggen' circus if I really think about it!! The things we do for a nap... At night I just feed her, DH takes her up, burps her, tightens her swaddle and puts her into the crib and voila. Sometimes, if she's more awake, he'll bounce her on the exercise ball for a minute and put her down. He always puts her into the crib awake though and she just falls asleep on her own. Now why can't this happen during the day??? I don't get it. She's capable of it at night and she can connect her sleep cycles as she sleeps for 6-8 hours straight through!! But during the day she's restless and wakes up crying every 15 minutes. She usually falls back asleep luckily with some tapping and shushing but you have to be within 5 seconds of her cause if she actually wakes up fully the nap is over. Insanity
Alfie had his first swim - he loved it. Saturday was lovely and sunny, Sunday was a bit cloudy and yesterday it rained all day but we were travelling for most of yesterday. Alfie was really good! We had a nightmare with the travel cot though, we have a koodi pop up basinette and I bought the mattress to go with it (inflatible). I bought their own mattress as I thought it would fit perfectly but it didn't! There was a big gap round the edge of a few cm, and when I woke up to Alfie crying I found that he had wriggled up and across and got stuck down it!!! I was horrified! Thank god he was on his back still or I hate to think what could have happened. Luckily the second night the hotel lent us a bigger travel cot. I don't know what I'm going to do for holiday now as the light weight one was small enough to go in the suit case :/
that seems to be the trend on here! Hope lo goes down for you soon!
