I’m at home full time now with the little one. I actually started last thursday. I’ll be home until the 7th of May. Then I’ll go back to work for a week (for some training), and then have another week off to spend time with her. So far, the hardest adjustment has been the decrease in sleep. However, Noelle and I discovered that it works much better to put her down in her crib in her room than in the bassinet in our room. Turns out Gilzow babies are notoriously loud sleepers. Mom told me that she couldnt sleep with any of us three boys in the room with her because we made so much noise. Sure enough, when we tried leaving Annika in her room, after about 3 minutes of fussiness (though no crying), she went to sleep. There were a couple of more times throughout the night where she would make enough noise to wake me up (via the baby monitor), but by the time I had swung my legs out of bed and started to get up, she was back to sleep.
Last night, she slept from 11:30p until 6:30a this morning! =)
After her morning feeding, sheslept until 10:20 at which time I had to wake her up to eat. She managed to pee all over me, again. While i was pulling off the dirty diaper, the clean one got caught on the dirty’s velcro tab and moved. It was right at that point that she decided to pee. Luckily i was able to deflect it to the changing pad and away from her clothes. She thinks it is HILARIOUS. I dont know if she is just reacting to my reaction or the faces I make or what. But she definitely gets a kick out of it.
We had about an hour of play time together before she started getting cranky. As soon as I changed her, and put her in the bjorn, she went to sleep. She’s asleep right now in the bjorn while i type =)
After this I think I will try and vacuum with her in the bjorn. Who knows? Maybe she’ll sleep right through it and I’ll be able to get some work done around the house!