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Diary Of A New Mum - Week 5

White noise

I was watching Jess sleep just now and I had a sudden flash-back to the birth. Right now she is on her play-mat by my feet, fast asleep with her dummy in her mouth, looking angelic – and I can picture so clearly the moment she slithered out of my body after hours and hours of pushing. I don’t remember hearing her cry but I’m pretty sure she did. The next minute she was wrapped in a towel for warmth and then placed in my arms, skin to skin. I can see her face now – tiny and red and wet and sticky with these huge dark eyes just gazing up at me. And there was I, sore, tired and shell-shocked, staring right back at her. 

It’s good to remember those special moments. It helps you get through the tougher moments. This week Jess’s colic has stepped up a gear and we’re really struggling to cope. At the moment we’re trying Infacol, which is something you give before their milk that’s supposed to release trapped wind. No effect as yet.

What we have discovered is the magic of white noise! Paul’s mom swears by it for helping her sleep, so we sent off for this ‘Stop-Crying’ pack we saw on the Internet, which consists of a tape-player and three tapes of recorded white-noise sounds. Jess’s favorite seems to be the lawn-mower at the moment (the tape-player is wedged against her ear just now).

It seems to work when she’s crying for no apparent reason. (There is a reason, of course, it’s just that we don’t know what it is. I don’t believe babies cry for nothing.) When she’s not hungry and her nappy is clean, and she’s not bored and she’s well cuddled, and you just can’t think of another thing to try – white noise seems to work.

Partly thanks to Paul’s mom (who has fostered loads of babies and was horrified that we still had to feed Jess eight times a day), we are now down to six feeds a day and Jess can go for six hours between feeds at night. Oh, joy! This means we’re getting a much longer chunk of sleep and we are feeling better for it. My sense of humor has returned. Which is just as well – Paul is going back to work next week and I’ll have to manage entirely on my own for the first time…

I weighed myself today. No, I’m not telling. And no, I’m not happy. I figured out I have 51 pounds to lose to get to my ideal weight. If I lost a pound a week that would take a year! Okay, maybe my ideal weight is a little unrealistic, but I can hope, can’t I? I made the fatal error of trying on some of my pre-pregnancy clothes. Don’t do it! Even if you are running out of clothes that fit you, don’t make the mistake of thinking that some of your old, baggy stuff might fit again. It won’t. Just go out and buy some more. You deserve it.

Lovely stuff this week: Jessica-Ann gave us her first proper smile this week, and also lifted and turned her head from one side to the other.

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