Thanks, everyone, for your comments, emails, and phone calls. I feel like I have some more ideas to try to with the little lady now thanks to your help. Thank you for caring!!!!We took Addie to the dr. today. She still has thrush and I'm curious if that could potentially be leading to her sleeplessness. I know that the Nystatin has sugar in it and I suppose it's possible that it could be hyping her up. I'm sure she's at least uncomfortable which could be leading to the fussiness. Anyway, I'm hoping that after this next round of antibiotics and probiotics we'll be done with the thrush. Also, she is now over 10 pounds! It's so good to know that she's growing. Last week Tali had a fever....
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Someone Please Read this and Help
December 20, 2009
If you have ANY thoughts or suggestions for how I can help my daughter sleep, please comment or email me. I'm desperate.Here's what she does...this is just one day for an example:8am: nursed8:40: swaddled, sang to her, lights off, fan on, put in bassinet8:40-10: occasionally cried for no more than 5 minutes at a time and then stopped, each time I checked on her she was laying in her bed looking around...never slept10am: Started screaming hysterically...I decided to just get her up since it had been over an hour. She was rooting around so I nursed her.10:40am: swaddled, sang to her, lights off, fan on, put in bassinet...she started crying immediately11:15am: had been crying off and on, eventually...
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Update on Life
December 11, 2009
I can't post pictures because the camera cord is no where to be found at the moment. Sorry.In case you're out there wondering how things are going around here, I would like to post this morning update:Addie was awake today from 7:30am until 11:15am. Some of that time she spent crying. Twice in that span, she ate. This is pretty typical for a day around here except that she generally screams much more than she did this morning. She doesn't sleep much regardless of my efforts. Letting her cry, trying the swing, holding her, singing, whatever for however long really doesn't matter. She is just hyperstimulated overtired and can't seem to get to sleep. It is frustrating because I have 2 other...
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Life with a Newborn
December 1, 2009
Our photographer friend, Brandon, took some awesome shots of Addie when she was 3 days old (the photo above is just one example). He did an incredible job and we are so grateful! You can check out the photos at: http://bjritterphoto.squarespace.com/clients/fenskas/(It might take a little while to load.)So our little girlie isn't quite 2 weeks old yet and still it seems that time is flying by. Maybe it's the fog of interrupted sleep or the lack of routine or the increased pace all day and night. I don't know. Time takes on a weird dimension when you're caring for a newborn.Some highlights:The other night I was taking care of Addie Beth and heard Tali exclaim from her bedroom, "God ansuhd...
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