STTN again!

I'm happy to report that we're no longer struggling with the sleep regression issues we had been faced with for several weeks.  Right at four months, Paige started rolling over from back to tummy and still has yet to figure out how to turn herself back over.  It really wasn't that big of a deal in the middle of the day when she was on her little play mat.  However, when it moved to 3:00 a.m. when she was in her crib, it wasn't quite as cute.  On top of that she was battling her first daycare cold that lingered for several weeks and that led to many wake-ups when she was congested.  Lucky for me, Jake seems to be the lighter sleeper so he was the one running downstairs multiple times a night to turn her back over but I still woke up when he got out of bed so we both had disrupted sleep.  

Since Saturday, she has been sleeping through the night again (STTN in internet mommy shorthand speak).  I'm really happy to get the solid hours of shut eye and am keeping my fingers crossed that it will continue.  Of course I'm waiting for those teeth to start cutting through and then I'm sure we'll be up regularly again.  I guess we'll just enjoy the peace while we have it!

The battle of the solids

So as some of you know, we've been struggling to get Paige started on solids.  Nearly a month ago we tried her on rice cereal.  The faces she makes are hysterical and I can't really tell if it's the texture and the idea of this "food thing" that causes the grimaces or simply the fact that she just hates the taste of everything I give her.  We've tried both rice cereal and oatmeal and we get spitting, awful faces and gagging from both.  We also tried sweet potatoes for the last few weeks and she basically has the same reaction.  Tonight we moved onto peas...no improvement.  So I know that she'll probably take to fruits but I've been avoiding the sweet foods in fear of her never turning back to veggies.  I know there really isn't pressure to get her to do this yet but I'd feel better if I could find something she likes.  I've decided the next food on the list is avocado...I've heard many babies like it and if that doesn't work I'll probably cave and try a fruit.  I'm also thinking about making some foods as well if I can carve out some time on the weekends.  If anyone has any advice on any of this feel free to chime in!

Hi everyone.  Well it's been a long time since I've been in the blogosphere...since August 13th to be exact.  And now more than five months later I've decided that I'd like to start up a new blog.  For those of you who followed my last saga, the focus was obviously all about my pregnancy.  Now that the dust has settled from the newborn stage and I'm starting to feel sane again, I thought I'd try this out and post about life with Paige, or Paigearoo as her daddy so fondly calls her.  

Waiting five months was probably a wise choice considering the challenges we had in Paige's first months (all I would have done is complain and you all would have thought I was the worst mother ever!).  While I wouldn't necessarily put her into the colicky category, she was quite a handful and very fussy for her first ten weeks on this planet.  I struggled quite a bit with staying sane with this new member of our family.  In addition to challenges with her, I also had many difficulties with breast feeding which added to the stress.  Fortunately I was able to conquer that obstacle and we found success and only just recently weaned 100%.  Much to my dismay, switching to formula brought on the fussiness again but now, after four different formulas, we finally seem to be on the right track again.  That's not to say that we don't have our bad days but overall we're finally moving in the right direction.  

So I'm not sure how much I'll have to report on a regular basis but when you're interested in hearing about Paige's progress, this is the place to go.  We'll still try to update the site with pictures on a monthly basis but hopefully I'll check in here more frequently.  Thanks for reading!