Age: 24 weeks... that seems so old!
Stats/Size: daycare thinks she grew the week that she was gone :)
Sleep: See last post. Naps are going great though!
Eat: Eating very well still! I think baby is SO ready to start trying some real food... she is always trying to steal our food and pretends she is eating when we eat in front of her :) It is very cute.
Getting Around: closer and closer to crawling... any day now I'm sure. I'll have to get a video soon...
New People: Met some new babies, stayed alone with her babysitter for the first time!
Best moment this week: Getting to go to a Miami game and have some fun :) It was the first time baby stayed with a sitter, and she did so well! I was so surprised that it wasn't nearly as difficult as I expected it to be.
Worst moment this week: We had a bad scream-fest while driving in traffic one day this week- it was not fun!! Made me feel horrible...
What I miss: sleeping in!
What I am looking forward to: We are taking baby to a hockey game tonight! She has noise-canceling headphones, so we're hoping those work to keep her comfy.
Weekly Wisdom: Remember babies' ears are sensitive...I didn't really think about it until I realized I was bothered by loud music at an art show last week :( I'm sure she was fine because it was only a few minutes before I started covering her ears, and we didn't stay long. I still felt bad, though!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Last week's update
Oops, a little late!!
Age: 23 weeks
Stats/Size: She seems bigger, but no official update on size
Sleep: Eh, naps are good, night time is fine most nights but some nights I'm up two or three times.
Eat: still eating on-demand. She wouldn't take a bottle with the babysitter (and still never at home) but does fine at daycare.
Getting Around: she is getting SO close to crawling...up on her hands and knees all the time, even at night if she wakes up (which makes it hard for her to fall back to sleep!), but she still does more of an army crawl and/or pushes along with her legs.
New People: Baby met SO many new people at a family wedding this past weekend! Everyone loved her and she was so amazing with the hectic schedule and traveling. She also met several of her uncle's college roommates and friends, one of my college roommates and friends, and her new babysitter.
Best moment this week: Seeing how in love my brother was the moment he picked his niece up for the first time. I was not expecting him to fall for her so fast! We need to find a way to see family more often...
Worst moment this week: Ugh- the whole night before travelling... I went to bed at about 10, baby woke up at 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4, and then we had to get up at 4:30 to get ready and leave for the airport for our early morning flight. And we had two short flights with a connection, so I did not get any sleep... Although I think even worse than that was the one time that baby woke up the next night. We were staying with my college friend, and she and her husband had to leave for work at 6:30. Baby woke up SCREAMING at 4 am and did not calm down for a good half hour. She never screams at night- she hardly even cries... it was not fun.
What I miss: Being able to sleep on plane rides :)
What I am looking forward to: Last week I was looking forward to the Miami Hurricanes playing here! That is passed now, it was Thursday night and we won!
Weekly Wisdom: Make a checklist when you travel... it is a lot easier to forget stuff when you have a baby and all the extra stuff that comes with her. We left Mr. B's garment bag at home for our trip to Boston, which had his suit for the wedding and baby's dress she was going to wear!
Age: 23 weeks
Stats/Size: She seems bigger, but no official update on size
Sleep: Eh, naps are good, night time is fine most nights but some nights I'm up two or three times.
Eat: still eating on-demand. She wouldn't take a bottle with the babysitter (and still never at home) but does fine at daycare.
Getting Around: she is getting SO close to crawling...up on her hands and knees all the time, even at night if she wakes up (which makes it hard for her to fall back to sleep!), but she still does more of an army crawl and/or pushes along with her legs.
New People: Baby met SO many new people at a family wedding this past weekend! Everyone loved her and she was so amazing with the hectic schedule and traveling. She also met several of her uncle's college roommates and friends, one of my college roommates and friends, and her new babysitter.
Best moment this week: Seeing how in love my brother was the moment he picked his niece up for the first time. I was not expecting him to fall for her so fast! We need to find a way to see family more often...
Worst moment this week: Ugh- the whole night before travelling... I went to bed at about 10, baby woke up at 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4, and then we had to get up at 4:30 to get ready and leave for the airport for our early morning flight. And we had two short flights with a connection, so I did not get any sleep... Although I think even worse than that was the one time that baby woke up the next night. We were staying with my college friend, and she and her husband had to leave for work at 6:30. Baby woke up SCREAMING at 4 am and did not calm down for a good half hour. She never screams at night- she hardly even cries... it was not fun.
What I miss: Being able to sleep on plane rides :)
What I am looking forward to: Last week I was looking forward to the Miami Hurricanes playing here! That is passed now, it was Thursday night and we won!
Weekly Wisdom: Make a checklist when you travel... it is a lot easier to forget stuff when you have a baby and all the extra stuff that comes with her. We left Mr. B's garment bag at home for our trip to Boston, which had his suit for the wedding and baby's dress she was going to wear!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Back in town!
I missed my post this weekend... we were out of town at Baby's first wedding :) She did great- no crying and mostly happy the whole time. She was so good, we stayed for the entire thing- from 2:30 until after 10pm! I was too exhausted to go to the after-party, but she had a couple of nice naps and probably would've been fine for that too if we'd wanted to go! Anyway- I'll have to catch up on the post this week, but for now here's a couple of picture from the weekend:
First wedding... she slept through the ceremony but partied it up at the reception
Sight-seeing in Boston
First wedding... she slept through the ceremony but partied it up at the reception
Sight-seeing in Boston
Saturday, September 11, 2010
5 Months!
Age: 22 weeks... my baby is already 5 months and 1 day old!
Stats/Size: still unchanged I think... size 3 sleep diapers fit pretty well and haven't leaked (yet- fingers crossed I am not jinxing myself!)
Sleep: Nighttime sleep still not good. Although I shouldn't complain right now- last night I was up at 3:45 and then 6:45... much better than the now usual 2am, 4am, 6am schedule or the 12am, 3am, 6am schedule, between which she alternates. Naps are going well though- so that is a huge plus! And I'm okay with sleep only because Mr. Beaver gets up at 6+ with baby and lets me stay in bed for as long as I can sleep!
Eat: eating often, still on-demand. She's healthy and gaining weight- that's all I care about. She polished of a 6 oz bottle at daycare, and has been only eating one bottle there, so I feel like that's a move in the right direction for eating less often!
Getting Around: still the same, nothing new and exciting to report!
New People: Another baby or two started the daycare, and there is a new teacher in the infant room... nobody else new this week. Next week is the big week of new people!
Best moment this week: Hearing everyone at my football draft tell me how great baby deals with being dragged to all of my stuff :) She seems to do so well when we are out and about, I've started going to work on non-daycare days. I don't get much done at all, and really spend the majority of the day on walks or on a blanket at the park, but it's a lot easier to keep baby happy and she seems to love all of the action going on!
Worst moment this week: Miami losing to OSU last night :) Mr. Beaver really needs to get his language under control during football games too... but really I think it was the exhaustion felt one night after the third feeding... I remember being in tears as I tried to get back to sleep while stressing about how much work I had to get done that day.
What I miss: I feel like a pathetic lush saying this, but I am a little sad I won't be able to drink at a huge family wedding weekend next week. Baby does not take a bottle outside of daycare (we've been trying...) so I'm not going to risk assuming that we can give her a bottle at the wedding and it not working. I know it's not really a big deal, but my siblings and cousins are all so excited about the many of hours partying ahead, so it's hard to feel like I can't really participate!
What I am looking forward to: The family wedding this weekend! Baby is finally meeting the last of her Uncles, and will get to meet TONS of my cousins, aunts, uncles, second cousins, etc. I know everyone is so excited to get to meet her, and I know we are going to have so much fun!
Weekly Wisdom: Hmm... I've got nothing... Oh- if you want a free board book or shirt for your baby, sign him or her up to participate in a research study! More below...
Infant Research (decided to write a short blurb so you don't think I'm subjecting my baby to some kind of torture!):
Baby did her first one this week and although I was supposed to not pay attention to what was going on, I did, and I'm familiar with the research and the methodology and I think she did awesome :)
It was a language learning study, so for about 3 minutes she listened to a fake language being played out loud, with syllables occurring together for different proportions of the total time they were played. "Words" were syllables paired together for 70% of the time (I'm making up that #-I don't know the exact proportions), where the baby should learn that hearing the first of these syllables predicts what comes next. It's a mechanism believed to be responsible for language acquisition, called statistical learning. Have I lost you yet? :) Baby then hears "words" or "non-words" (where the first syllable does not indicated which syllables will follow), and the researcher codes her attention to each of these stimuli using looking length. So when I say I think my baby did awesome, I mean that I observed obvious, distinct differences in her attention to the stimuli which I assume was due to hearing either "words" or "non-words", which indicates that she did learn that tiny bit of the fake language in only 3 minutes of exposure!
Anyway, there are tons of different studies with infants that use this methodology or other non-invasive, non-harmful techniques! It was fun to participate and I'm hoping there are more studies to participate in in the future. I still enjoy my own area of research and am not really tempted to switch, but it's still fun to be a part of on the participant side, and I plan to put any resulting publications from this study in Baby's baby-book :)
Some pictures from last weekend:
Meeting Curious George:
Visiting Mr. Roger's neighborhood! (should've visited a little earlier, before she passed out)
Stats/Size: still unchanged I think... size 3 sleep diapers fit pretty well and haven't leaked (yet- fingers crossed I am not jinxing myself!)
Sleep: Nighttime sleep still not good. Although I shouldn't complain right now- last night I was up at 3:45 and then 6:45... much better than the now usual 2am, 4am, 6am schedule or the 12am, 3am, 6am schedule, between which she alternates. Naps are going well though- so that is a huge plus! And I'm okay with sleep only because Mr. Beaver gets up at 6+ with baby and lets me stay in bed for as long as I can sleep!
Eat: eating often, still on-demand. She's healthy and gaining weight- that's all I care about. She polished of a 6 oz bottle at daycare, and has been only eating one bottle there, so I feel like that's a move in the right direction for eating less often!
Getting Around: still the same, nothing new and exciting to report!
New People: Another baby or two started the daycare, and there is a new teacher in the infant room... nobody else new this week. Next week is the big week of new people!
Best moment this week: Hearing everyone at my football draft tell me how great baby deals with being dragged to all of my stuff :) She seems to do so well when we are out and about, I've started going to work on non-daycare days. I don't get much done at all, and really spend the majority of the day on walks or on a blanket at the park, but it's a lot easier to keep baby happy and she seems to love all of the action going on!
Worst moment this week: Miami losing to OSU last night :) Mr. Beaver really needs to get his language under control during football games too... but really I think it was the exhaustion felt one night after the third feeding... I remember being in tears as I tried to get back to sleep while stressing about how much work I had to get done that day.
What I miss: I feel like a pathetic lush saying this, but I am a little sad I won't be able to drink at a huge family wedding weekend next week. Baby does not take a bottle outside of daycare (we've been trying...) so I'm not going to risk assuming that we can give her a bottle at the wedding and it not working. I know it's not really a big deal, but my siblings and cousins are all so excited about the many of hours partying ahead, so it's hard to feel like I can't really participate!
What I am looking forward to: The family wedding this weekend! Baby is finally meeting the last of her Uncles, and will get to meet TONS of my cousins, aunts, uncles, second cousins, etc. I know everyone is so excited to get to meet her, and I know we are going to have so much fun!
Weekly Wisdom: Hmm... I've got nothing... Oh- if you want a free board book or shirt for your baby, sign him or her up to participate in a research study! More below...
Infant Research (decided to write a short blurb so you don't think I'm subjecting my baby to some kind of torture!):
Baby did her first one this week and although I was supposed to not pay attention to what was going on, I did, and I'm familiar with the research and the methodology and I think she did awesome :)
It was a language learning study, so for about 3 minutes she listened to a fake language being played out loud, with syllables occurring together for different proportions of the total time they were played. "Words" were syllables paired together for 70% of the time (I'm making up that #-I don't know the exact proportions), where the baby should learn that hearing the first of these syllables predicts what comes next. It's a mechanism believed to be responsible for language acquisition, called statistical learning. Have I lost you yet? :) Baby then hears "words" or "non-words" (where the first syllable does not indicated which syllables will follow), and the researcher codes her attention to each of these stimuli using looking length. So when I say I think my baby did awesome, I mean that I observed obvious, distinct differences in her attention to the stimuli which I assume was due to hearing either "words" or "non-words", which indicates that she did learn that tiny bit of the fake language in only 3 minutes of exposure!
Anyway, there are tons of different studies with infants that use this methodology or other non-invasive, non-harmful techniques! It was fun to participate and I'm hoping there are more studies to participate in in the future. I still enjoy my own area of research and am not really tempted to switch, but it's still fun to be a part of on the participant side, and I plan to put any resulting publications from this study in Baby's baby-book :)
Some pictures from last weekend:
Meeting Curious George:
Visiting Mr. Roger's neighborhood! (should've visited a little earlier, before she passed out)
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Happy labor day weekend!
Age: 21 weeks tomorrow...almost five months old already
Stats/Size: Baby weighed 16 lbs yesterday on our scale at home!! I've started washing the 6 mo and 6-9 month clothing and it actually fits her pretty well.We have started using overnight diapers, and they are size 3 and fitting well enough. She's growing so fast!
Sleep: We've transitioned to the crib! She has slept in it three nights now, and it doesn't seem like she notices the difference. Naps are still going extremely well, and Baby seems to have changed her bedtime on her own now, she has fallen asleep between 7 and 7:30 the past three nights, but only stayed asleep two of those nights. Last night she kept waking up and I would soothe her back to sleep, and she'd be up again 5 minutes later. After doing this about 8 times, we just let her get up. This was around 8:30, and she ended up going back to sleep around 10:30. I'm working on adjusting her nursing schedule to work with this new sleep schedule... she has been waking up twice to eat instead of once now. It's not bad- about 15 minutes of her chugging down milk in her sleep and then we're both back to bed.
Eat: eating well, still on-demand. She's healthy and gaining weight- that's all I care about.
Getting Around: Mr. Beaver is convinced that she is crawling at daycare and they keep hinting to me to see if she has done it at home... but I think if she could do it there, she would do it here. She is able to move pretty well in her belly-ish crawl (reverse army crawl?), so I think there is not much motivation to work on hand-and-knees crawling.
New People: The daycare expanded the infant room, so Baby B has a few new friends there! She used to be the only girl on Tues/Thurs, but now there are a couple more. I think there are still only 6 babies max though, so I feel comfortable with the expansion :)
Best moment this week: Watching Mr. Beaver with Baby... he seems to spend more and more time playing with her the more she is able to interact with him and her toys. I love seeing it, they both seem so happy!
Worst moment this week: Hmmm... maybe accepting that it really doesn't seem like a good idea to bring Baby to a night-time, college football game, and starting to think about a babysitter :( I don't know how I'm going to leave her at night, for so many hours, for the first time... I still only really leave her when I have to for work or for a 5 min trip to the store.
What I miss: Being able to enjoy my coffee on weekend mornings, but I get to enjoy Baby's smile instead, so it's okay if my coffee gets a little cold while I am busy with her.
What I am looking forward to: Baby B is participating in her first study with the Infant Cognition lab. I'm hoping it will be something fun and interesting :)
Weekly Wisdom: The $1 board books in target's "value section" are a great chew-toy, but don't get upset when the pages then stick together.
Milestones: Sleeping in her own room at night!
I've been trying to upload a pic for a while now and am giving up- I'll post it later. I'm off to microwave my coffee from this morning :)
Update- picture working now :)
Stats/Size: Baby weighed 16 lbs yesterday on our scale at home!! I've started washing the 6 mo and 6-9 month clothing and it actually fits her pretty well.We have started using overnight diapers, and they are size 3 and fitting well enough. She's growing so fast!
Sleep: We've transitioned to the crib! She has slept in it three nights now, and it doesn't seem like she notices the difference. Naps are still going extremely well, and Baby seems to have changed her bedtime on her own now, she has fallen asleep between 7 and 7:30 the past three nights, but only stayed asleep two of those nights. Last night she kept waking up and I would soothe her back to sleep, and she'd be up again 5 minutes later. After doing this about 8 times, we just let her get up. This was around 8:30, and she ended up going back to sleep around 10:30. I'm working on adjusting her nursing schedule to work with this new sleep schedule... she has been waking up twice to eat instead of once now. It's not bad- about 15 minutes of her chugging down milk in her sleep and then we're both back to bed.
Eat: eating well, still on-demand. She's healthy and gaining weight- that's all I care about.
Getting Around: Mr. Beaver is convinced that she is crawling at daycare and they keep hinting to me to see if she has done it at home... but I think if she could do it there, she would do it here. She is able to move pretty well in her belly-ish crawl (reverse army crawl?), so I think there is not much motivation to work on hand-and-knees crawling.
New People: The daycare expanded the infant room, so Baby B has a few new friends there! She used to be the only girl on Tues/Thurs, but now there are a couple more. I think there are still only 6 babies max though, so I feel comfortable with the expansion :)
Best moment this week: Watching Mr. Beaver with Baby... he seems to spend more and more time playing with her the more she is able to interact with him and her toys. I love seeing it, they both seem so happy!
Worst moment this week: Hmmm... maybe accepting that it really doesn't seem like a good idea to bring Baby to a night-time, college football game, and starting to think about a babysitter :( I don't know how I'm going to leave her at night, for so many hours, for the first time... I still only really leave her when I have to for work or for a 5 min trip to the store.
What I miss: Being able to enjoy my coffee on weekend mornings, but I get to enjoy Baby's smile instead, so it's okay if my coffee gets a little cold while I am busy with her.
What I am looking forward to: Baby B is participating in her first study with the Infant Cognition lab. I'm hoping it will be something fun and interesting :)
Weekly Wisdom: The $1 board books in target's "value section" are a great chew-toy, but don't get upset when the pages then stick together.
Milestones: Sleeping in her own room at night!
I've been trying to upload a pic for a while now and am giving up- I'll post it later. I'm off to microwave my coffee from this morning :)
Update- picture working now :)
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