Emily's Colic

    So I haven't posted in a little while. Emily Grace came down with colic. Colic is where they get gas in their tummy and can't get it out. Their tummy's get hard and it's uncomfortable and they cry.  A lot.  I have found a couple things that helps.  Since I'm breastfeeding my not eating foods that can cause gas helps. Broccoli, yogurt, beans etc..etc.. warm baths help relax her to she's more comfortable. And infant Mylicon gas relief drops before I feed her help too. My sweet little girl is starting to feel better today. Her tummy hasn't gotten hard all day and she was so much happier then she's been in a couple days.  I never thought I would be encouraging my daughter to burp and fart. 

Sleeping through the night

  She's done it! Emily Grace is sleeping through the night! 

We rearranged the living room on Monday and put the couch where we had Emily's crib and placed her crib on the wall across from it. Her crib is in the living room so we can hear her in the night instead of in her room. When I sat down on the couch I noticed the air vent about 10 feet away was blowing cold air right on me. I wanted to bury myself under a big pile of blankets! That night Emily slept through the night until about 6:30am.  We figure it must have been the vent blowing cold air on her waking her up. It'll be a couple nights till I get a good night sleep.  I'm used to feeding her at least twice during the night and I've woken up engorged both mornings now. Ouch!!! It'll take a couple nights before my body stops making the extra milk. Sometimes being a breastfeeding mom is a double edged sword. Yay! No more 12 and 4am feedings! Ouch! I'm engorged! 

  I am so proud of her! She is getting so big!

Play "Memories" With Me

 Here is a fun tag. Here are the rule:

1. Add a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. 

It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instruction on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. 

It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll asume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog, and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments. 

This will be fun!

No way

  Emily Grace is 3 months old today. Officially she is no longer a newborn, she is now considered an infant. There is no way. No way in the world, my little sweet baby girl is 3 months.  Can someone explain how this happened so fast? Isn't 3 months a long period of time? I always thought it was, but I guess it's not after all.  Wow.  

  

1 Year

Yesterday was Doug's and mine's one year anniversary.  Doug is working the day shift right now ( 5am-5pm) and it was Sunday, so we're going out Saturday when he doesn't have to work. We still wanted to make it a little special since it is one year, so before church I made Doug's favorite chocolate cake with lemon frosting. Odd, but strangely good. And when I got home from church I started on the lasagna he requested. Leann was coming back to the apartment to watch Emily after dinner once I had Emily asleep so Doug and I could just go sit in the hot tub by the pool and have some us time.  Then Leann was staying at a friends house tonight, Doug and I were going to eat the wedding cake that was in the freezer and have some sparkling apple-pomegranate juice. 

    Everything went according to plan up until Emily went to sleep. Emily behaved in her bouncy chair during dinner so Doug and I could just talk and not balance holding her and eating.  She went down to sleep just before Leann walked in the door. Doug and I went over to the hot tub, put a foot in and it's cold.  Still bubbling just cold like the pool next to it. Ok, that's fine, it's a warm night, we still have an hour free of the dog or Emily so we just sit there with our feet in getting used to it before just goofing around in a cold bubbly kid's pool. After just talking about the high points of the wedding ( trying to ignore the things that went wrong ) for about half an hour we're just plain cold and decide ok, we had some alone time let's go in take a hot shower and warm up.

   Go back inside, Leann hasn't started packing her stuff for being away that night so we go off to take a shower.  Get out of the shower a little later ( save water! shower together! ) drying off and we hear Emily screaming.  I throw a throw my big old robe on over the cute little nightie, run out into the living room to see Leann holding Emily who's crying hard. Leann" She woke up so I was rocking her and she went back to sleep so I went to lay her down and as soon as I did she started waving her arms around trying to feel for me and started crying!" So I take Emily and start feeding her, Leann leaves, Doug gets out cake and juice and plastic cups instead of our pretty goblets since Emily's awake and likes to wave and kick in random directions now. Emily's still awake so Doug holds her while I feed us our wedding cake. And it still tasted good! We found out that it didn't have the same filling as the one at our reception ( the lady who made our cake does an extra  freezer layer for free ) but it was still lemony and good.  That juice though not so much.  Very sour and just kinda gross.  

   Emily went back to sleep so Doug and I went back into our bedroom to finish up our evening, at this point he's yawning since it's 9:30pm and he's been up since 4am, and we hear Emily cry. Emily hasn't spent the entire night with us since she was about a month and a half old.  She even slept all through the night on the 3rd! I bring Emily into our to feed her and poor Doug is asleep. Set Emily down, put on some p.j.'s ( I'm not sleeping in an itty-bitty nothing all night ) feed Emily, and convince her to go to sleep. Emily ending keeping me awake most of the night. 

    Not a very romantic evening, didn't go how we planned to a T, but we did get what we really wanted.  We wanted to celebrate not that we made it through a year, but that had been married a year. We got to have some time to ourselves to talk about our wedding and how much we've grown and changed.  We can even laugh at some of the things that went wrong on that day now.  When Doug was falling asleep he said sorry that things didn't go as we planned.  It's ok, we didn't get married so we could have sex whenever we wanted. We got married because we loved each other, we wanted the same things and we wanted a family together.  We spent it with each other, we had some laughs and ok Emily ended up sleeping with us. Not a big deal. Besides it's not like there's a " Only fool around once a year rule" right?

   

Happy Conceivment Day!

   Tommorow Doug and I will have been married one year.  We figure Emily was a wedding night/honeymoon baby. If you count the days it's wedding night. Today Doug took Emily back to change her diaper and was talking to her. " Congratulations! You were conceived a year ago tommorow! Last year Mommy and Daddy went  bow-chica-bow-bow!" He also claims he's going to tell her this every year.  So here's my question. Do we get her a conceivment day present? 

40 minutes

 40 Minutes. Emily Grace screamed for 40 minutes. 15 minutes in the car on the way to the bike shop to pick up Doug's motorcycle. 10 minutes in the car while Doug paid the shop for putting on the new tire. 15 minutes back to the house. She screamed until her throat was sore. And in between screams, she whimpered.  But now the screaming child is gone and there is a sleeping angel in the crib. Her most angelic feature right now? The golden silence coming from her sweet face.  She's asleep.  I love my sweet little girl.  

1am Feeding

  Emily woke up at 1am last night for a feeding. Doug was on midnight shift so he was at work. I went to the crib which is in the living room next to our bedroom until she starts sleeping through the night.  I brought Emily Grace to our bed and started feeding her. We have our routine. I put a washcloth over her shoulder and under her neck ( bibs just don't go high enough to catch the milk before it runs down on her neck ) , put on the nipple shield and we're good to go. Then as she eats I play with her hair, or sing to her.  I was struck again last night by how much I love this little girl.  A mother's love is so different from any other kind of love. When I think that this little girl is a product of Doug's and mine's love it's overwhelming.  It fills me from head to toe and spills out. I think I understand better now why parents want to keep their children close to them and why it's hard to let them go. The idea of letting Emily go one day hurts, I want to keep her safe and close to me.  She's my perfect little angel.  I want all the best things for her.  My one year anniversary is coming up. I remember my mom crying when I was done getting dressed in my wedding dress. At the time I started crying too because I was so happy and I know she was too, but now , even though I've only been a mom for a little while, I think I understand  it's hard to hand your daughter over for someone else to take care of.  I'm glad I won't have to do that for a long time still.  My goal as a mom isn't to be perfect, it's just to make sure Emily knows how much I love her.