Thursday, January 31, 2013
Witchy Woman
Dinner time coincides with "witching hour" in our house. The "witching hour" is when Beia is fussy for no apparent reason, and this naturally seems happen when our nanny leaves each day. Through trial and error we've come up with some tactics to help deal with this difficult time. The best solution thus far has been for one of us to wear Beia in the Moby. This allows us to prepare dinner and eat (unless we are eating something hot, which poses another challenge). Whoever ISN'T wearing Beia does the cooking and the other one of us helps prep. If the Moby doesn't work, then we do tag-team dinner where one of us eats while the other soothes Beia, and then switch. Following dinner we try and watch a short tv show while Beia sleeps in the Moby or on Steve. This makes us big fans of half hour shows like Big Bang and Modern Family, and abandon the longer shows with more complex story lines.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Ten Weeks
Today Beia is ten weeks old. I'm also officially back to work this week—albeit only for three days. In addition, this is our nanny's first full week with us. Cindy is great. Her sister, Casha, was our baby nurse for a week and had recommended Cindy to us. The timing was ideal for both Cindy and us and we feel fortunate to have found her. Even better, Beia seems to really like her and greets Cindy with lots of smiles each day—even right when waking up. Beia is now sleeping between 4.25 hours and 3 hours each night. Last night we weren't lucky enough to get a four hour stretch. However, we have been able to let Beia fuss a bit when she wakes up after only two hours, and she's able to get herself back to sleep for awhile (thankfully). We keep hoping for longer stretches more consistently, especially as she gets closer to her third month.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Sleeping Beauty
We can hardly believe it, but Beia is getting close to outgrowing her bassinet and her three-in-one cradle. These are the two places that she sleeps—the former in our bedroom at night and the latter in the main room during the day. With this in mind, we've started to transition Beia into sleeping in her crib. It hasn't been as straight forward as we thought it would be.
Steve first attempted this on Sunday as she always falls asleep so nicely ON HIM! This time, when she fell asleep, Steve gently transferred Beia to her crib...only to be brought back into her room minutes later by her wailing, wide awake. Our nanny, Cindy, tried again yesterday and had the same results. We're not sure why the crib seemed to bother her, or if Beia has some sixth sense about where she is at all times. Does she not like the mattress? The sheets? The location? The size (small baby, big bed)? Her preference, clearly, is to sleep ON people...not in a crib!
Today was my turn, and I'd like to report initial success. I tried several things. I lowered the shades. I turned on the white noise machine. I stayed in the room. And I read to her. Of course, it could have been any one of these things–or the combination of them together–and it probably helps that she didn't sleep much yesterday! Regardless, I'm happy to claim victory, if only for today...
Friday, January 18, 2013
Supermodel : Two Months
Today we had our two month appointment with our pediatrician, Dr. Jamila, at TriBeCa Pediatrics. Although TriBeCa isn't the closest pediatrician to us, we really like their community focus and laid back approach. They also have a good reputation and, on a nice day, not a bad walk away from us. And they have Saturday appointments.
Anyway, along with our laundry list of questions for the doctor, we were really looking forward to Beia's weight check. This is the most eagerly anticipated part of the visit for us, since being "near preterm" Beia has always been on the small side. Prior to each visit we speculate how much she'll weigh and then high five each other if she reaches the imaginary target goal we've set for her. At our last visit two weeks ago, we took an unofficial weigh—in of 8.5lbs and were beyond thrilled. We had hoped for 8lbs, so this was better than we imagined. For this visit we were shooting for 9lbs. Beia really impressed us though with her 9lb 4ozs—HIGH FIVE! Although she's still only in the 6th percentile, her length puts her in the 67th percentile. Therefore, she already has a promising career as either a basketball player or supermodel...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
The Beia Bean
As of Tuesday, November 13, 2012, we have a new addition to our family—Beia Appel Rubin. She arrived a month early and we're only now, eight weeks later, beginning to start to figure things out. Sort of. One thing we've determined, is that this could be a good time to refresh, reinvigorate, and kick start our blog anew. So with that in mind, this is our first post for the new post-partum edition of InnExperience (and luckily the name is still as appropriate as ever).
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