Well, it doesn't seem like 5 long days since I last sat down and blogged but I guess it has. Ok well in some ways it does but it just seems like long days all blend together and you never really know how many have passed. The sleeplessness has continued. Monday night was probably the worst. She would sleep for a half hour and then be up and then sleep for an hour and then maybe 45 minutes and well, I was at the end of my rope. Each time it takes roughly around 30 minutes to get her back to sleep. Don't worry about doing the math on how much I slept that night. Trust me, I have and it "ain't pretty" (consequently neither was I the next morning).
As I rocked her Monday night I contemplated my desire not to start cereal, all the obesity and health studies against it, the developmental angle saying that usually when you do start it they are at the stage to start sleeping more anyways so who really knows if it is due to the cereal, all the people saying to do it, my mother finally saying "then be miserable" (well she didn't say it in that less of words but that was the point of it) when I tried to justify why I didn't want to start at 4 months, whether I really thought it would work, how fantastic it would be IF it worked, how much I could pump if she ate a meal of cereal, and how I could use that for when I got back to school... the scenerios went on and on.
By that morning I don't really know if I had decided that it was a good idea or not, but I had decided I was going to try. I guess there are a million other reasons she could be obese later in life and other reasons to have health problems and they are all things we can deal with later. I just want to give her the beast start I can because, well, life is hard.
Tuesday Samee and I went up to see Aunt Joy and Aunt Debbie. Debbie was down to help Joy for a few days and also the group at the Inn that week was a group that I had become fond of a few summers ago. Those old ladies just loved Samantha. A lot of "so cute" and "she's gorgeous" and a few "you'd better invest in some ropes before she gets to high school to tie her in the basement with". We stayed for quite awhile and it was really nice to get out and visit. I really should do it more often but for some reason it just doesn't happen. Samantha started to get pretty fussy and needed a nap around 2 so we headed for home. She was actually really cranky but zonked out after being the truck for about 10 minutes.
So Tuesday night I started her bath and JM stepped in so I could mix up her cereal. She splashed around with Daddy for awhile and then was ready to go. Prior to her bath she was NOT happy and nothing really seemed to work. After the bath she wasn't too bad.
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