Love Letters to Natalie
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Hyper Nat
Natalie has grown to be more and more playful. Yesterday afternoon after bathing and feeding her, she refused to sleep more than 1 hour by herself.
She woke up at 10 am and I fed her before bathing her. After bathing her, she asked for milk again so I fed her again and she dozed off at the breasts. I thought she had enough because she had unlatched herself so I carried her in my arms to make sure she had fallen sound asleep before putting her down on the bed. She woke up again in less than 10 mins time, with her eyes wide open and smiling open.
Seeing that she didn't want to sleep, I decided to play with her. She's so fun to play with now, responding to my touch and the surrounding things. She'll smile when I tickle her cheeks. I love her smiles, they just make my day.
We played for quite a while before she wanted her milk again and then dozed off again and then woke up again and then asked to be carried around to look at things. In the end, the whole cycle went on for the whole day and I even brought her out for a walk to the playground to "exhaust" her high energy level a little so that she would fall asleep. Well.. this little girl wasted no time in sleeping, she is so alert and awake.
In the end, I only manage to make her sleep at around 2:30 am, after the last feed for the night. I had to put her on my chest to sleep else she'll just tossed and fussed around. My nipples will be extremely sore by her constant suckling (no matter how much lasinoh cream I applied) and I'll be dead tired. No use giving her a pacifier, she's now smart enough to tell the difference and will spit the pacifier out immediately and becomes angry.
She slept all the way from 2:30 am until 8 am today, woke up in time to say byebye to her daddy going to work. I fed her and she fell asleep again at ard 9:30 am, I guessed she's really tired by now. Now I'm waiting for her to wake up to bathe her and bring her to the factory. I'm needed at the factory today because my mom is shorthanded.
Sigh... when I want her to be asleep, she is wide awake but when I want her to wake up, she is sound asleep. Sometimes babies just don't behave the way we want them to yeah?
natnat's mom at 2:53 PM
