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Life at 2 Inyo, 11 weeks
October 01, 2005Melina continues to sleep through the night and Clyde is home. Life is good at 2 Inyo these days. It is Saturday morning and the house is quite, everyone is still sleeping. I thought I would take a moment and write a little update since I have been neglecting my entries the last few weeks. I spoke to a friend this past week who just got home from the hospital after giving birth to a beautiful baby boy. I was very quickly reminded how difficult that first week was. She has a breastfeeding sleeper like Melina which makes feeding time somewhat frustrating. I can still picture Melina’s little 6lb 11oz body stripped down to a diaper and the lactation consultant standing over us tickling her toes and drenching her with a wet rag to wake her up. After an hour and a half feeding, half hour break while Bill changed her and burped her, it was time to do it all over again. Is it bad to say that I am glad those days have passed? All I could offer my friend was support and encouragement that she is doing beautifully, is feeling exactly how she is supposed to (tired, frustrated, happy, etc) and the best advice that I was given---hang in there, breathe, it gets a little easier every day.
Life has become a little easier each day. Easier being the key word—not easy. I must say though that life greatly improved once she began sleeping through the night—about 4 weeks ago (thank you Babywise). Amazing how you are so much more capable of taking on the day when you have had some sleep! Melina and I are also beginning to understand each other which helps immensely. I am able to somewhat distinguish hunger cries from wet diaper cries from boredom cries. She can interact now and is able to play with some of her activity sets. She sure is cute. I can’t wait for Halloween—so far she has three costumes so we will be going to a lot of Halloween parties! She has a cow, a pig and of course, a pumpkin. Perhaps we can dress her up when we take her to the pumpkin patch as well. Stay tuned for some new pictures. . .
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