Four Weeks, One Day

Life has been very uneventful for me the past few weeks and I am becoming more settled. There is no schedule or routine whatsoever but daily life is the same each day just at different times. She still sleeps a lot through the day but now she always wants to be held so it's impossible for me to get anything done. When she's not sleeping she wants me to bounce her on my knee or play a game called, "Guess what Baby wants" where nothing seems to please her for too long. She is a lot more high maintenance and fussy than in her younger days. There is not much of an eating pattern either. Sometimes she'll drink two ounces every three hours, then two hours later she wants four ounces, then wakes up an hour later and drinks another two ounces. At night when she sleeps she constantly grunts and sounds really uncomfortable. It's hard to sleep when you think your baby is going to wake up at any second because she isn't happy. I think it's just tummy issues linked to gas. She'll be fine once I pick her up and hold her but the second I put her down she squirms around and makes noise. We gave her her first bath tonight. I took pictures but feel a little weird posting those. I know four weeks seems like a long time for a first bath but we had to wait until her cord fell off and then finished healing. We had been giving her sponge baths til this point. She didn't mind being bathed and really didn't make a peep the whole time. Speaking of noise, two days ago she seemed to be very responsive to my mother in law while she was talking to her and she cooed and smiled back. Twice today she did this with me. It was so heart warming. I can't wait til she babbles more and is aware of the world around her. Right now she just stares off at shiny objects and seems fascinated in things that only someone on hallucinogens would find interesting. She can be a lot of work but I love my new job as a mom. She is a great deal cuter than my legitimate boss and smells better too. (For real.) I don't look forward to going back to work, that's for sure. Better soak up these next two weeks because they are going to fly by fast!