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me time, tummy time, monitor false alarm
Jul. 6th, 2007 04:29 pmOh, how the geeky have fallen. I am having some me time at the moment. We went yard sale-ing this morning (spent a whole quarter) and when we returned and had lunch, Evelyn decided she wanted to eat. She had already eaten once, but an hour later, she was desperately seeking more food, so I fed her again, and she ate for 35 minutes straight--which is longer than she's eaten since we were in the hospital and my milk hadn't come in. It's usually more like fifteen minutes. I had asked M if he would take her so I could do something else for a while than take care of her, and so he put her in the sling and took her to the basement with him. (Cute!) And.. guess what I did during this lovely, lovely free time? Housework! One grows accustomed to a nice house, it seems. I had other things to work on, too, but at a certain point--after sanitizing new pacifiers and nipples--I decided that hey, maybe I should settle down already and do something unworky while I have the chance.
One of my goals while I have this time off work is to do some of those little things around the house that I always thought I'd like to do, or maybe that just has needed done for a while and I haven't gotten around to it.. things like keeping a clean house, or reorganizing the pantry, or cleaning the couch or hanging up pictures. Not that I've done any of those things yet, except I have been working at keeping a clean house and am doing pretty well. Better than usual, anyway. It's pretty satisfying to see order return to the closet in the bathroom finally, and cross of those items on the to do list that have been there for months. I'm not fast with any one thing, because I don't have that much time away from baby, but things are getting done. I believe that I'm finding so much joy in doing these things partially because of the utter overwhelmingness of life just after she was born, added to how worn-down I felt at the end of pregnancy and just after she was born. Basically, I guess what I'm saying is that for one to truly appreciate something, one must have some quality suckage first. ;)
M is laughing at me because I am in the middle of my "me" time and I can't stop checking on her and asking if she needs me. To think I used to make fun of those people who hovered over their kids when someone else was in charge! Again, how the geeky have fallen. For instance, just now she is crying and I am having a hard time not jumping up to go see what's wrong.
Parenting question time! Evelyn hates hates hates being on her tummy. She screams if we put her down like that. Am I going to ruin her forever and give her a lopsided head because she doesn't get enough tummy time? I have been a bit paranoid about the flat head thing, and she seems to be alternating between which side she lays on pretty well and I try not to let her sit in her car seat/swing/bouncy chair too much, though of course, she sleeps on her back. She also does fairly well at holding her neck up when she wants to, but I have no other eight-week baby to compare her to in that respect. Okay, I do know that the lack of tummy time isn't going to break my baby but did anyone else's kid refuse to lay down on their stomach, or are they just supposed to get mad? ;) Her two-month appointment is next week so I hope to hear that her head is lovely and round. It looks round to me, but what do I know?
Oh! I forgot to mention this, but a few days ago, M and I woke up in the middle of the night to Evelyn's monitor going off--the one that goes off if there's no movement, ie, no breathing. We both jumped out of bed, and I hovered while M was prodding at her to see what was wrong. He couldn't tell, so he grabbed her up as I threw the lights on. She was fine, thank God, but it scared us to death. We've never had a false alarm before. We don't know if it just had a blip and didn't register her breathing, if she had been holding her breath (she has set off the first tiny noise at fifteen seconds before, but it really goes wild at twenty seconds), or if she really had stopped breathing, but the alarm and M picking her up and the light going on startled her into breathing again. I assume it was her holding her breath. Still yet, that one little episode made me pretty damn glad that we bought that monitor.. even if the most likely scenario without it was that we would never have known about it. It is the best eighty bucks we have spent on the baby so far by a long shot.
One of my goals while I have this time off work is to do some of those little things around the house that I always thought I'd like to do, or maybe that just has needed done for a while and I haven't gotten around to it.. things like keeping a clean house, or reorganizing the pantry, or cleaning the couch or hanging up pictures. Not that I've done any of those things yet, except I have been working at keeping a clean house and am doing pretty well. Better than usual, anyway. It's pretty satisfying to see order return to the closet in the bathroom finally, and cross of those items on the to do list that have been there for months. I'm not fast with any one thing, because I don't have that much time away from baby, but things are getting done. I believe that I'm finding so much joy in doing these things partially because of the utter overwhelmingness of life just after she was born, added to how worn-down I felt at the end of pregnancy and just after she was born. Basically, I guess what I'm saying is that for one to truly appreciate something, one must have some quality suckage first. ;)
M is laughing at me because I am in the middle of my "me" time and I can't stop checking on her and asking if she needs me. To think I used to make fun of those people who hovered over their kids when someone else was in charge! Again, how the geeky have fallen. For instance, just now she is crying and I am having a hard time not jumping up to go see what's wrong.
Parenting question time! Evelyn hates hates hates being on her tummy. She screams if we put her down like that. Am I going to ruin her forever and give her a lopsided head because she doesn't get enough tummy time? I have been a bit paranoid about the flat head thing, and she seems to be alternating between which side she lays on pretty well and I try not to let her sit in her car seat/swing/bouncy chair too much, though of course, she sleeps on her back. She also does fairly well at holding her neck up when she wants to, but I have no other eight-week baby to compare her to in that respect. Okay, I do know that the lack of tummy time isn't going to break my baby but did anyone else's kid refuse to lay down on their stomach, or are they just supposed to get mad? ;) Her two-month appointment is next week so I hope to hear that her head is lovely and round. It looks round to me, but what do I know?
Oh! I forgot to mention this, but a few days ago, M and I woke up in the middle of the night to Evelyn's monitor going off--the one that goes off if there's no movement, ie, no breathing. We both jumped out of bed, and I hovered while M was prodding at her to see what was wrong. He couldn't tell, so he grabbed her up as I threw the lights on. She was fine, thank God, but it scared us to death. We've never had a false alarm before. We don't know if it just had a blip and didn't register her breathing, if she had been holding her breath (she has set off the first tiny noise at fifteen seconds before, but it really goes wild at twenty seconds), or if she really had stopped breathing, but the alarm and M picking her up and the light going on startled her into breathing again. I assume it was her holding her breath. Still yet, that one little episode made me pretty damn glad that we bought that monitor.. even if the most likely scenario without it was that we would never have known about it. It is the best eighty bucks we have spent on the baby so far by a long shot.
