Emily, you are growing bigger and you definitely have a sense of your own personality now. Ever since we realized just how much gas you had, we decided to call the doctor after Doomsday Tuesday and she said to get some gas drops for you. Once we started to give you that, you definitely seemed to be much happier, although your sleeping was still all over the place. Sometimes you could nap for a while [> 1 hour], sometimes you could only sleep for 5-10 minutes. We didn't even have time [or maybe the energy] to take more pictures of you for the next couple of days after Doomsday Tuesday, which was followed by What the Hell Wednesday. Your Auntie Tuyet came over just to give mommy a break.
This week, we decided to take you out for your first big outing. We went to South Coast Plaza!!! Mommy was a little apprehensive about feeding you in public, and I can see why. We didn't have a plan of how we would cover you, but we decided to get out of the house and just go out. We brought along our favorite hat for you and your Uncle Sherman said you look like one of the Village People [you'll know what he means one day]! But as soon as we put you in your carseat, you cried and cried and cried.
You finally did wake up to eat and you ate right in front of Tiffany's! Hopefull that won't be things to come. :) You actually slept some more that afternoon, but clearly, you were not the sleep friendly baby anymore. We didn't know it at the time, but you were overtired and wired.
As I've fully gone back full time to work, I'll have to admit that 70% of my mind as at work and the other 30% was clearly wondering how things were going at home. Because of Doomsday Tuesday, I think that shook our confidence in making sure that you were doing well and that you were getting enough sleep. I knew that this was starting to be the start of your fussy period, but it was during this week that between the hours of 5PM-9PM, you just couldn't focus on eating. You seem to be distracted and you didn't want to go to bed. A lot of soothing and rocking, feeding and gentle strokes seem to be the best remedies, but that took a while. I remember having a conversation with mommy that we needed to change out approach because as soon as I came home around 5:30PM until you fell asleep [between 8:30PM-9:00PM], we didn't eat. We started our dinner at 8:30PM or 9:00PM most nights and by the time we went to bed, you had already slept for 2 hours, likely to wake in another hour. It wasn't another week before we decided just to let you be fussy while we put you on the rocker sleeper.
This week, we also tried to introduce the bottle, to no avail. You hated the bottle with a passion and you would often cry so hard that you would make this kind of limp cry at the end. You also didn't like the pacifier, so we couldn't introduce another way to soothe you. In some ways, I told mommy that maybe in retrospect, we should have introduced the bottle/pacifier sooner to you, but at the time, we didn't want you to be confused on what was what.
What will week 6 bring?
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