Wow, I sure fell off the blogging horse for a while there! Although I had every intention of blogging every scrap of pregnancy information, I... didn't. Oh well! Here we are, with the sweetest four-week-old baby we could ever imagine! She is perfect. Everyone says that about their babies, but... well, you know.
We've already broken a few of the standards we imagined for our little one. We didn't want her to be exposed to any "screens" for the first part of her life. Oops! She's still pretty small so she can't really process what's going on yet, but she seems to be getting to that point! She's so alert and wonderful. We avert her when we notice her gazing in the direction of the TV or the laptops though... ahh! I had also planned not to "do anything" while breastfeeding, but I ended up watching a lot of Netflix! In the early days I also tried to do things like go on my laptop while breastfeeding, which bit me in the ass since we're still having some latching and positioning problems, but they've been getting corrected in the past few days as I've been consciously working at it. Oops.
But! We're pretty successful parents, I think. I suppose we fall under the "attachment" category. Iris sleeps on my chest every night, and I'm breastfeeding. More on that crazy adventure soon! We also plan to do "elimination communication," or working with the baby to "catch" pees and poops so she doesn't have to sit in them for any period of time. We're also easing into baby-wearing, I just learned how to use our Baby K'Tan. We have a Snugli also but the only time we put her in it, she cried, so we haven't tried it again yet.
I know this post is very sporadic, but I'll just blame it on mommy-brain! Much more to come, having a little baby is so exciting and action-packed!
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