Thanks all you ladies for your advice. I think swaddling may be the issue and I am going to try and improve on this with the help of a borrowed miracle blanket (thanks Julie!!) and the wombie (thanks Alex!). Then again, I may just have a 30 minute napper on my hands, and that's okay too. This 'in arms' time is so short so I should just enjoy it instead of stressing, right Lauren? Right. And Eve, your comment about Dixie doo-dah tearing apart the apartment while nursing Lucy made me laugh so hard :).
Now that that is all settled we must move on. Jude's blessing. I don't know about you, but I have always felt that the mother should also have a say through her inspiration about what the baby will be blessed with. Doesn't that just seem natural? It does to me. So Dan and I talk about this, and of course we have serious conversation about the topic too, but I can't help but get a little inappropriate, because, after all, why take yourself too seriously? Right? Right. So, we really think that Jude should be blessed with thermal vision, the proportional strength of a spider, and also for him to know that with great power comes great responsibility. I don't know why this makes us laugh so hard, but it does. And yes, I realize that I will be left with a hybrid Superman/Spiderman child and I can't even wait!
I don't know how Dan is going to get through his blessing with a straight face and no giggles. For that matter, how will I get through it?
4 woot-woots!:
Some moms on FMH hold the baby in their arms while sitting down and the men place their arms on the baby's head. This does several things, including: avoids the dangerous baby bounce and also allows the mother to participate a little more. I think spidey powers are very important, though.
Those baby bounces can get out of hand quite easily! Like they're trying to throw the baby straight back up to heaven.
So this is related to your last post. But I have a 20 minute napper too! I know how frustrating it can be, especially when your baby seems exausted and is cranky. I don't really have any good advice, because I am lucky that my little guy seemed to grow out of it as soon as he learned how to suck his thumb...which was around five months. Soother gagger over here as well. It's still touch and go, but looking back I feel embarassed at how stressed out I was about it. It was really just a little blip, and now things are getting better. It goes by way too fast, so seriously just enjoy being able to hold him while he sleeps. Lucas doesn't like to be "put" to sleep anymore and I really miss it. Someone told me once "don't wish these days away." It stuck with me, and now I can see how true it is. The time just flies by, and they aren't little for very long.
I hope it works for you!! Also bahahaha I loved this post! LOVE IT!
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