Lila, my sweet pretty baby, did not want me to sit down with her all week! Actually, today in church was no different! For the last week, unless she's sleeping, she doesn't want me to be sitting down when I'm holding her. Since I've been all by myself all day for the last week, this has simply worn me out!! Thankfully, my friend Mindy told me about The Happiest Baby on the Block while I was pregnant with Lila. This book tells about a baby's "fourth trimester", the first few months when they still want the comforts of the womb. This is where white noise, the swing, and the sling come in. With these three tricks up my sleeve I was able to keep my sanity this week. When Lila is just crying (colicky I suppose you could say) and she's been fed, burped, and diapered but she still is crying, I just turn on the vacuum or my white noise track on my docked iPod and she immediately calms down. It is amazing!! Then she is calm and she can go into the swing and fall asleep and I can have 45 minutes to get something done. When her nap is over and she's tired of playing on her playmat, then into the sling she goes. Yesterday I had her front facing in the sling while I was unloading the dishwasher and she fell asleep in there too. This past week I also found that holding her in my arms and doing a deep squat also calms her crying down and turns that frown into a smile! I also learned that doing this repeatedly makes me a very sore mommy the next day! Hahaha, well, I have been wanting to fit more exercise in anyway!
(The picture of Lila is from today, right after we got home from church.)
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