Sleepyhead!

This is another photo of Nadia from Sunday. I haven't seen her eyeballs too much since she had her shots yesterday. She slept well last night - almost 6 hours the first stretch and then after nursing for about 30 minutes she slept for 3 1/2 hours and might have slept longer, but I woke her up to nurse her before going to work. I nursed her a little more in my office before the babysitter arrived. I had gotten reports from additional faculty members of how much she had screamed on Monday. Thankfully no one seemed upset. So I shared additional tricks with Ashley - use the sling, give her a little milk, etc. Well the tricks weren't needed today as she slept very easily in the pack n play for most of the 3 hours I was teaching. She didn't cry at all. She did drink most of the 2 bottles I provided (one with my milk and one with formula). I brought extra as I knew I wasn't going to be able to nurse right after class like I did on Monday because I had appts with students right after class. I wasn't able to nurse her until we came home. She's pretty much a zombie. She looks like she's on sedatives or something like that! She didn't even cry when I squirted the saline up her nose - that's how out if it she is! I'm going to try to keep her awake some in the early evening as I don't want her to be up all night. I gave the same advice to Paul yesterday and wish I hadn't.

He woke her up at 6:30pm and was trying to keep her awake until I got home at 8pm. Well unfortunately the only options last night were sleeping or screaming so she screamed for 90 minutes. Paul opened the garage door prior to my arrival home and was waiting at the door so he could hand her to me asap. He's never opened the garage door for me before, LOL. I nursed her but she fell asleep before I could do both sides. I should have pumped the other side as then that kept me awake later in the night I was lying there thinking WHEN is she going to wake up (and all the other nights I wanted her to sleep but that one side hadn't been nursed in about 11 hours!). So finally I got up at 2:15am and started pumping (I should have gotten up sooner instead of lying there awake for so long in pain) and a few minutes into pumping she woke up and I nursed her. So that's two nights in a row of only ONE feeding in the night. That is wonderful! I hope this is a trend. One feeding a night would be terrific especially if she goes down easily after I feed her. When she has her 4 month shots I won't try to keep her awake as she's now slept very well for almost 24 hours so I won't worry that her sleeping in the afternoon/early evening after shots means she won't sleep at night. One of the nursing profs said she noticed this pattern that colicky babies (I wouldn't say Nadia has colic but she definitely leans more in that direction) tended to sleep and be easy going for a day or so after their shots whereas easy babies are often fussy for a day or so after stheir hots. Interesting. So Daddy survived his first night alone. It cracked me up when he told me that he ate dinner while she napped but he wasn't able to get any other work done (he was referring to the fact that he hadn't emptied the dishwasher). I responded that I completely understood that - often times I don't get much else done except care for her! :-) I think next Tuesday will go more smoothly for him since there won't be any shots involved. I hope so anyhow!

Since errands are trickier with Nadia, I asked him if he'd stop at CVS on his way home from school to get her Zyrtec and Amoxicillan, and I stopped on the way home to get pizza for our dinner and go to the bank (we finally got our "economic stimulas" check on Monday). Thankfully since she's in chilled out mode she was fine going through the drive thru at the bank, and the pizza shop is kind enough to carry the pizza out to my car.

One thing I have to say is I am super duper glad that I turned down overload this semester. I would have been teaching another class tonight if I had accepted it. It's a course I've taught every semester since Fall 2004 so in that sense it would have been easy, and my dept was really in need of faculty members to teach overload (ironically we've wanted it in the past and not been allowed to have it), but I had to decline. I can't imagine teaching tonight. I am pooped from teaching last night and again early this morning (I went to bed an hour after Nadia and got up 45 minutes before she did so I am tired). I hope to take a nap after she finishes nursing. The best news is that although I have to get up early for the plumber (who is arriving between 7:30-8:00am) other than that I have no appointments tomorrow. Thursday is my stay at home day which will turn into a packing day until we move.

Friday both of my babysitters have a meeting they have to attend on campus from 8:30-9:15, and I teach from 8:00-8:50, 9:00-9:50, and 10:00-10:50 so Nadia will be in class with me in the sling for part of my 8:00 and 9:00 classes that day. Hope that works out to have her in the sling during that time frame. I'm sure my students will enjoy getting to see her in person (so far just photos).