baby week 12: keeps getting older
i don’t think i realized how traumatic moving her from the bassinet in our bedroom to her “big girl crib” would be. she’s had a nap or two in there, and the mobile has been a handy distraction when i’ve needed to contain her for a few minutes. last night we picked up a baby monitor and made the switch for bed time as well.
i did not like it. not having her *right there* while we slept felt like we had abandoned her somehow, even though the baby monitor was so sensitive we could hear her sucking on her hand. i couldn’t shake the fact that she was too far away and it took me quite a while to get to sleep. we all slept through the night, so at 7am when i woke up and hadn’t fed her and hadn’t heard her, i was a bit concerned. she was happy as a clam in her bed though. awake, but not fussy, so she didn’t make a peep on the monitor. i gave her breakfast and she went right back to sleep. when we got up at 10ish, she was still down, so we let her sleep until she woke up.
that’s actually the second time in a few days where she’s slept all the way from 11:30 to 7am, and then slept another 4 hours afterwards. she doesn’t seem to be inordinately hungry or extra awake during the day afterwards, so i’m not going to complain too much about it ;)
anyway, back to the crib. since it was such a success last night, and to prevent the temptation from bringing her back into the bedroom for no good reason, i took the bedding off of it today to wash it and put it away. as i came out of the bedroom and announced “bye, bye bassinet”, even ryan got a bit gloomy. she’s still a very tiny little baby, and not even 3 months old yet, but she’s growing up fast. as great as it is, it tugs at heartstrings.
in other news, ryan added a video to his blog, and i put a bunch more pictures on flickr, so you can keep up with her. my goal for this week is to get a vid of her smiling and giggling, but it’s not as easy to get her going with the camera between my face and hers.