Miscellaneous

Noelle is still only drinking a few ounces at most feedings at home whereas she drinks 6 1/2 oz per bottle at daycare. I would love to videotape what the heck they are doing that she takes the bottle from them so well but fights it with us. Paranoid me started envisioning horrible scenarios like them adding sugar to the bottles so that she would take it.

*sigh* Rob is with her right now trying to get her to get back to sleep. Our fault. We woke her up a half hour ago to eat. She fell asleep around 6:30PM and by 8PM, we didn't want to keep letting her sleep cuz 1) we figured it was too early for her to go to bed for the night and were afraid she would wake up at 2am or something and 2) she hadn't yet reached the pediatrician recommendation of at least 24oz of milk per day. She drank only just enough to meet the minimum daily requirement before fussing. She's obviously sleepy (she's not reaching for things or waving her arms around and she's not displaying much facial expressions) but she's having difficulty falling back asleep. She is crying piteously. I want to bang my head against the wall now. This is the second night in a row that this has happened. Maybe we should just let her sleep? I'm not crazy about her need to nap usually sometime around 5:30 or 6PM as it's so close to her bedtime (around 8:30 or 9PM usually) but until the past 2 days, she usually woke up on her own after only half an hour or 1 hour. Then I would play with her for a bit before giving her a final bottle and then putting her in her crib. A small handful of nights she even fell asleep without a single protest cry. Not tonight. Or last night. Argh.

On another note, related to her tendency to need to sleep around 5:30 or 6PM, that's usually the time my mother comes to help me watch her for an hour Mondays through Thursdays so that I can eat dinner and shower. The past week or so, Noelle has gotten super cranky literally 5 minutes into my handing her off to my mom and she would cry (or rather, SCREAM her head off) as she was suddenly exhausted. So my poor mom's quality time with her for the past week has been either having Noelle scream her head off or sleeping.

Noelle is still screaming right now. Another night where she was crying like this with Rob, when I went into the room and spoke, she stopped crying immediately, stared at me, and calmed when I held her. I hope this preference for me isn't a trend. I know that's understandable since I spend more time with her most days but I don't want Rob to miss out. Plus, it's hard to only have me take care of her every single time. I need to get away from childcare some of the time (hence this blog right now). I'm actually pumping as I write this so that I can go to bed early tonight.