rosie 9-27-05
I have been getting better at asking for Joe to help me take care of Rosie and calm her down when she is fussy - I tried to give him tips to calm her down, but I feel like I’m being condescending. I know he feels left out a lot of the time, and I think it would really help if he knew how to calm her. Still feel like I’m going at it alone most of the time - though now I don’t give him a break just because he has to get up and go to work, I have been making him get out of bed to walk or bounce Rosie during her fussy time at night - the only thing is that she doesnt calm down for him like she does for me so either I have to take over or offer suggestions that make me sound like I know more than him - but I guess I do!
Oh well, its still changing every day - Rosie was starting to go to sleep around 9:30 and would sleep pretty solidly - waking to eat a couple times- until 7ish! But for the last couple days she has been taking long naps in the day - 3 hours or so - and I try to wake her and she is just limp and stays asleep no matter what I do! Which means she is not going to sleep until around midnight and she is up by 5-6am!
She is still so sweet and cute when she nurses herself to sleep - I love when she pulls off when she is done and then uses my breast for a pillow - she usually puts her arm up and over the top of my breast too…too cute…I always say she is in a milk coma after she eats - I have heard other mamas call that look “drunk on milk”- my favorite are the milky smiles when she is 1/2 asleep, where she drools out a little milk from the corner of her mouth…
