Sorry for such a long delay between posts.\u00a0 I have all these thoughts pop into my head during the day, and never manage to make it to post it on the blog.\u00a0 Consequently this is just a random mess of thoughts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
To continue comparing my children…Alison is much harder than Reed was as a newborn.\u00a0 (Let’s hope this means she will be an easier toddler!)\u00a0 The first 2 or 3 weeks were pretty normal but lately her sleep habits have gotten terrible…and I am grumpy as a result.\u00a0 All of you warned me that have a cuddly baby was a bad thing and you are right!\u00a0 She only wants to go to sleep in my arms.\u00a0 Sometimes I don’t want to sit on the couch and hold a baby ALL day.\u00a0 I’m good with it for most of the day, but not all.\u00a0 As a result of her cuddliness I haven’t been working out like I need to and I haven’t lost a single pound since day 5 postpartum.\u00a0 (On day 5 I had lost 20 pounds and I haven’t lost another ounce since!) Back to the crappy sleep.\u00a0 She still has her days and nights mixed up and so she is awake from like 11pm to 1am.\u00a0 NOT a good thing.\u00a0 We are trying to keep her awake more during the day to fix this problem.<\/p>\n
The second major difference is that she is still spitting up.\u00a0 It isn’t ever a lot, but it’s enough so that I always feel like I’m covered in throw up.\u00a0 I didn’t realize how annoying this was.\u00a0 I should have enjoyed Reed’s lack of throw up a WHOLE lot more.<\/p>\n
Ali had her 4 week checkup Monday and she weighed 9’6″ (70%) and was 21inches long (50%)\u00a0 Sadly, Reed gave her pink eye so I had to put ointment in her eyes for a few days.\u00a0 I hated seeing her goopy eyes when she woke up in the morning.\u00a0 So sad.<\/p>\n
Other than my earlier complaints we are doing great!\u00a0 Reed still loves Ali, sometimes too much.\u00a0 We are still working on ‘gentle’.<\/p>\n
Last random thought…I really suck at being a stay at home mom.\u00a0 I am not good at self motivation and we wind up spending way too much time at the house.\u00a0 However on the other hand I’m sad that I’m going back to work in 7 short weeks.\u00a0 Is there any way to make me happy?\u00a0 Sometimes I even annoy myself!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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