Hey Ya’ll!
I hope all is well! Everything is going good on my end. Just
wanted to provide an update with Ryla’s night time regimen. Let’s just say about
every night is different.
Most nights Ryla is sleep by 9:30pm but once or twice a week
she goes left field and acts like sleep is the worst thing in the world. If she
only knew how wonderful getting a full night’s sleep was! On a typical night
she has her warm bath between 7 and 7:30, bottle by 8, and is sleep by 9-9:30. On
those off nights Ryla fights her sleep something terrible. She screams to the
top of her lungs and I just have to be patient to soothe her to sleep. She
loves white noise. Usually when I play it it calms her down and she goes right
to sleep. I was pulling up white noise on YouTube but I recently bought a teddy
bear that plays the soothing sounds. Right now for her bath and hair I use
Aveeno products. Soon, I’ll be switching to shea moisture for her shampoo
because I love me some shea moisture!
At 7 weeks we introduced Ryla to cereal. We just put about a
half of teaspoon in her formula (she is drinking 4oz now) and it does wonders.
Before, Ryla was waking up faithfully every 2 hours to eat. I was like heck
naw! Since putting cereal in her formula she only wakes up once a night which is
wonderful. She also seems to be in a deeper sleep at night so certain noises don’t
wake her up like they used to.
Right now her nighttime regimen just consist of a warm bath
and a bottle but I will start rubbing her body down with lotion or oil and
reading her a bedtime story. I want to start those two things around 3 or 4
months.
Ryla will be 2 months on October 24th and I still
can’t believe how much she’s grown. She’s getting so chunky and is finally
starting to get fat rolls lol (I love a fat baby). She’s still in size 1 diaper
and can still fit newborn clothes but they are snug so she has graduated to 3
months and some 3-6 month clothes. My baby is growing up *tear*. She is also
cooing a lot more and is no longer a bobble head lol. She can hold her head up
for longer periods of time. She is very clingy. When we put her in her bouncer
she’s content for like 10-15 minutes before she’s crying for somebody to pick
her up. Once you pick her up she’s fine. She wasn’t really held a lot as a
newborn because she was always sleep so I don’t know where this being extra clingy is
coming from so hopefully that stage will come to an end as she gets older.
Also, Ryla has started daycare. It’s an in-home daycare and
it’s her and about two other babies. Ryan and I really wanted an in-home
daycare because it’s less worries about germs and our baby getting sick. Ryan
has known the owners for years so there was really no worries about her
caregivers. On her first day it was a little sad because I was so used to
having Ryla with me during the day but after about the second day and noticing
how much I could get done during the day I was back to normal lol. Ryla will
probably attend this in-home daycare until the age of two where she will be
going to a daycare that has more of a school setting.
Ya’ll pray for me for my maternity leave is coming to an
end. I have truly enjoyed my time being at home with Ryla and also taking out time
for myself. I’m a lover of sleep so I know it’s going to be an adjustment to
get in the routine or working 8 hours a day and also being a mommy but I’m sure
I will adjust fairly quickly. I’ll just be a zombie at work for a while until I
adjust to getting no sleep lol!
Stay tuned for more Ryla updates and anything else I feel
like blogging about :)
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