She Did It!
After 7 long days...Jayla pooped! Okay, you know you're a parent when....
I won't go into any details, but let's just say those diapers a really not big enough when they only go once a week...
Today we had our baby massage class with the same instructor as our pre-birth classes. Jen and Chris and little Breanna also took the class, along with one of the other couples and their little baby from our pre-birth classes. There was another couple that we didn't know. So, it was a private little group. We learned lots of good techniques, including some to get the insides moving. I have to wonder if some of these helped with our big achievement for the day. Our baby was certainly the most vocal about what she didn't like. The other babies seemed very easy going and seemed to enjoy the whole massage. It was really fun. It was good to be out with other parents and their babies...Martin took the camcorder and got some good footage, then he spent some time this afternoon working on putting together a little video of our massage class. It's really good. He's so creative. He's definitely the one that will be helping Jayla with all her art projects in school!
About the saving grace that I was talking about in the previous post. I might have to re-think that. It seems that it works some of the time. It does seem to help calm her down. It's really too bad that the swaddling is so important...because when it comes to putting her in her car seat, she usually fusses a lot then, and unless she was calm before we put her in, she doesn't usually settle even in the car ride (or stroller ride as the case was on Thursday when I attempted to go to the market with her). I hope that changes, because as we move through summer, I really want to be able to go for walks with her.
On a more positive note, Jayla was in an unusually good mood this evening for the feeding around 9pm. Maybe it was due to the diaper action. I started feeding her, she fell asleep in my arms as I was nursing her. I burped her she woke up again, but wasn't fussing for more food. So, I played with her, sang to her, bounced her a bit in my lap. She was loving it. Then the action in the diaper started...I continued feeding her, but then we figured it was time to change her diaper. After she was all cleaned up, we gave her a bath...which she seems to really like, thankfully. Then more feeding and now she's off to bed. Let's all cross our fingers that she has a nice long sleep...I'm hoping for 4 hours!
I won't go into any details, but let's just say those diapers a really not big enough when they only go once a week...
Today we had our baby massage class with the same instructor as our pre-birth classes. Jen and Chris and little Breanna also took the class, along with one of the other couples and their little baby from our pre-birth classes. There was another couple that we didn't know. So, it was a private little group. We learned lots of good techniques, including some to get the insides moving. I have to wonder if some of these helped with our big achievement for the day. Our baby was certainly the most vocal about what she didn't like. The other babies seemed very easy going and seemed to enjoy the whole massage. It was really fun. It was good to be out with other parents and their babies...Martin took the camcorder and got some good footage, then he spent some time this afternoon working on putting together a little video of our massage class. It's really good. He's so creative. He's definitely the one that will be helping Jayla with all her art projects in school!
About the saving grace that I was talking about in the previous post. I might have to re-think that. It seems that it works some of the time. It does seem to help calm her down. It's really too bad that the swaddling is so important...because when it comes to putting her in her car seat, she usually fusses a lot then, and unless she was calm before we put her in, she doesn't usually settle even in the car ride (or stroller ride as the case was on Thursday when I attempted to go to the market with her). I hope that changes, because as we move through summer, I really want to be able to go for walks with her.
On a more positive note, Jayla was in an unusually good mood this evening for the feeding around 9pm. Maybe it was due to the diaper action. I started feeding her, she fell asleep in my arms as I was nursing her. I burped her she woke up again, but wasn't fussing for more food. So, I played with her, sang to her, bounced her a bit in my lap. She was loving it. Then the action in the diaper started...I continued feeding her, but then we figured it was time to change her diaper. After she was all cleaned up, we gave her a bath...which she seems to really like, thankfully. Then more feeding and now she's off to bed. Let's all cross our fingers that she has a nice long sleep...I'm hoping for 4 hours!
posted by Melissa at 8:08 PM
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