Ella's on a combination of breast and bottle now. She'll take a wile to get used to the bottle, but once she starts sucking she seems to like it. I might have to experiment with formula, cause she did a projectile vomit today and that always worries me. I much more enjoy the breastfeeds I do give her now too, but might still decide to switch to bottles completely in the next few weeks. Mainly because of the time element. When I go back to work it would be great to only have to spend 10 minutes on that morning feed, so I have some time left to cuddle Ella and go for a walk with her and the dog.
She falls asleep in her cradle relatively easy now, it seems. Sometimes it still takes a while. And today I decided to get the washing machine going while she was still awake to make her used to falling asleep with noise. I wish I'd waited until I got my new washing machine, cause the one I'm using now is extremely loud. But she did fall asleep eventually. Victory again!
Now she sleeps more again and also cause I am now ok with letting her cry for a while (2 minutes when she's screaming, forever if she's just whingeing a bit
), I feel much calmer again. I don't feel like such a failure anymore when she cries. I realise it's what babies do and as long as I am confident about when and how to react, I can cope with it.
When she's awake she's vey alert and reacts to noises, like the rattle in her giraffe toy or the dog yawning. She's so adorable when she's watching the dog, frowning when the dog's tongue suddenly comes out. I have to keep telling the dog not to lick her also. But to her Ella is like a puppy, and pups love being licked, not?
I'm so looking forward to my mum meeting Ella. It'll be quite an emotional moment, I imagine. I'm sure my mum will find her very beautiful. People keep telling me how beautiful she is, and I now believe they're not just saying it cause they want to flatter me. Although I keep replying: "I think she's beautiful too, but I'm severely biased."
And it'll be interesting to see how the dynamics between my mum and me have changed now I'm a mother too. Maybe she'll finally spontaneously tell me stories about when I was a baby, cause she never did so far.
I'm sure she'll give me lots of advice, having raised 4 kids and with 6 other grandchildren. Some of which will be helpful, some of which will just annoy me cause I won't agree with her views.
Damnit, the washing machine just started spinning and woke up Ella. No wonder, the whole house is shaking from it! It's like a mini earthquake.
She falls asleep in her cradle relatively easy now, it seems. Sometimes it still takes a while. And today I decided to get the washing machine going while she was still awake to make her used to falling asleep with noise. I wish I'd waited until I got my new washing machine, cause the one I'm using now is extremely loud. But she did fall asleep eventually. Victory again!
Now she sleeps more again and also cause I am now ok with letting her cry for a while (2 minutes when she's screaming, forever if she's just whingeing a bit
), I feel much calmer again. I don't feel like such a failure anymore when she cries. I realise it's what babies do and as long as I am confident about when and how to react, I can cope with it.When she's awake she's vey alert and reacts to noises, like the rattle in her giraffe toy or the dog yawning. She's so adorable when she's watching the dog, frowning when the dog's tongue suddenly comes out. I have to keep telling the dog not to lick her also. But to her Ella is like a puppy, and pups love being licked, not?
I'm so looking forward to my mum meeting Ella. It'll be quite an emotional moment, I imagine. I'm sure my mum will find her very beautiful. People keep telling me how beautiful she is, and I now believe they're not just saying it cause they want to flatter me.
Although I keep replying: "I think she's beautiful too, but I'm severely biased." And it'll be interesting to see how the dynamics between my mum and me have changed now I'm a mother too. Maybe she'll finally spontaneously tell me stories about when I was a baby, cause she never did so far.
I'm sure she'll give me lots of advice, having raised 4 kids and with 6 other grandchildren. Some of which will be helpful, some of which will just annoy me cause I won't agree with her views.
Damnit, the washing machine just started spinning and woke up Ella. No wonder, the whole house is shaking from it! It's like a mini earthquake.
Lin
