The smile that can win you all the way!

My son is not yet 2 months old. He is 6 days away from that. But he already started smiling. A smile that takes all your stress away. With that smile, the cooing is very very intoxicating. From the day he started smiling, I have been always looking at him to see the smile back again.

On the other hand, my daughter is reducing to a baby. Now there is constant crying, fussing from her. She has started to drink liquid from sippy-cup or baby bottles. That God, she is not going back to those 4 ounce bottles. That would be a definite disaster.

But my son likes to play with my daughter, even though my daughter makes it a point to irritate him whenever possible. If he is sleeping, then she would talk loud or scream loud so that the baby would wake up. If he is just laying silently, then she would go and kiss him or do something to him until he starts fussing. Yet, he still loves to play with her and watched her constantly. That's how siblings make things work!

Sleepless nights.. but better than previous

The sleepless night continues with the baby being 1 month old. It's because the baby feeds less and feeds every two hours. Though the baby is on formula, yet he needs to be fed every 2 hours.

However, compare to my daughter, we are having a much more easier time. With my daughter, feeding was ok, but she would never go to sleep when we put her down in the bed or crib. So the whole night I had to carry her on my shoulder or in my arms and she would fall asleep like that. And night after night, doing the same thing made us like zombie and we got cranky too. Somehow we were controlling our time. It was so bad that, when we thought of having a second baby, we were hesitant because of the night experience.

But this time its' much better. He feeds frequently, but he sleeps well. He sleeps in the bed, bouncer, swing, crib, shoulder, arms; everywhere. It does not matter to him. So this time, we can lay down and close our eyes for some time when he falls asleep. However, because of the regular interruption, we don't feel like we are getting enough sleep.

So we came up with one idea. We split up the night into two shifts. One would take care of the baby until 3AM and then from 3AM the second person would take care of the baby until morning. And the next day, the shift would rotate. Now we are getting enough sleep and we don't feel that tired. Hopefully, this would work out fine on long run.

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