Seven weeks and wine helps everything

So we had our first growth spurt. I thought it might be happening because she started sleeping a lot more than usual and going to sleep a lot easier. I thought we were out of the woods until my sister in law mentioned that they usually cluster feed with growth spurts. Saturday wasn’t too bad but she didn’t sleep for very long stretches Saturday night and by Sunday she was feeding every hour and intermittently sleeping. Chris can’t really help much when she is cluster feeding but about 4 p.m. he came up to her room and brought a glass of wine. He just said “she may not think you are but you are a really great mom.” That was probably the best thing he could have said and done at that moment. And then about 6:30 she fell asleep. We normally have bath at about 7:15/30 so I was waiting until she woke up to do the bath. But she just kept sleeping until almost 10, towards the middle of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup. I fed her and she fell back asleep and stayed asleep for 6 hours. I on the other hand had to pump a few times. Cluster feedings are brutal to go through and then brutal once they slow down, the milk just keeps coming. Our bodies are pretty impressive at the things they can do.

The tough part of Sunday, other than being attached by the boob to the little one, we were trying to get the house ready to put it back on the market. We had actually listed the house for a while last October but took it off in January so we could get ready for baby. That was our stop point, if we didn’t have an offer, we would get the baby’s room ready and then try again after she was here. Well she is here and the Husband was back on his search, fueled by houses selling quickly in our neighborhood. We actually found “the dream house” in Stafford so we have an accepted offer contingent on the sale of ours. So Sunday I started about 8 different things while trying to take care of the baby. I am not sure any of them actually got done. Chris was doing work outside and ended up having to do most of the work inside too. In the end we got everything done and the house went on the market Monday afternoon. Let me tell you how much fun it is trying to clean a house to show it and then get a baby and two dogs out of the house by yourself. Its not. Fortunately, my sister in law lives about 5 minutes away so we have spent a bit of time at her house this week. Long story to get to the point of, we aren’t doing very good at getting a schedule going. The chaos of being gone, car rides, etc does nothing to help us get situated. The good news is we still have a pretty set schedule from 10 pm - 10 am.

We made it to Wonder Woman and it was an awesome experience. There was 0 stress and I loved the movie. Except I keep tearing up in the scenes where she is around her Mom and the other Amazon women. Again, saving all of that for counseling because thats probably a novel on the emotions wrapped into that one.

We also made it out to vote. Fortunately there was not anyone in line. As a citizen that disappoints me but as a new mom, I was very glad.

I think it was last week or the week before she started having tears when she cries. Now she does the breath gasp and sniffle after she stops crying. All of it just kills me. And then she rests her head on my chest and calms down and its probably my single favorite thing.

She is starting to practicing sitting up (fully supported by me) mostly because she just likes looking around. She is getting more and more curious about the world around her.

So its been kind of a crazy week and I took the liberty to stay home as much as I could.