May 27, 2021
Every day looks the same in our bubble. It has been hard to remember what day of the week it is for a year now, you can only separate weekends from weekdays. But now, I have no clue what day it is. It could be a Saturday or a Tuesday, it’s all the same. Sure, hubby has phone work meetings from time to time that tells me it’s a weekday, but other than that, no idea:) And this weekend is a three day weekend so I’m gonna be completely thrown off hahah.
Every night this week, Lilliput has been fussy for about an hour around 7-ish. Babies her age is “supposed to” sleep for 16-20 hours/day, but Lily sleeps an average of 12 hours/day which she seems pretty ok with and then she sleeps through the night. But she does have a fussy hour because she is overtired. Crying and crying and crying, and if I happen to be a bit extra tired then I allow myself to cry a little too. This is apparently called “the witching hour“, something most babies goes through, says google. It can be because of overstimulation during the day, overtiredness, gas, upset tummy, busy background from the rest of the family etc. It starts around week 2-3 and lasts til about month 3-4 (yay). She’s got a few longer naps in today so I’m hoping for a much more relaxed evening. We are also not watching anything on TV tonight and have no extreme noises overall. And the air conditioner kinda works as white noise which is good, it keeps her asleep.
(( it was also full moon yesterday, so maybe that’s what made her fussy all week, who knows 🙂 ))
We haven’t started with any specific schedules or routines yet, we still just go by what she needs and want. Her umbilical cord came off awhile ago but there’s a tiny stump piece left which for some weird reason was bleeding this morning, so we can’t give her any real baths yet, which is something to add to a regular schedule in the future. For now, we just go with the flow, and we are all happy with that 😀
This week we have been trying to put her in the BabyBjorn bouncer for short periods of time.
She is starting to enjoy it I think.