Eli has really been changing so fast over the past few weeks. He went from being fairly smiley to smiling all the time. He's even started a little baby laugh of sorts. He is such a great baby! When he is mad, he is definitely very mad and lets you know he is upset, but most of the time he is totally happy. We did just turn a corner though. He had been quite fussy and we just couldn't figure out what the problem was. We knew that he was thrown off by our hospital stay and couldn't really get back into a good eating/sleeping rhythm, so we forced him onto a very specific schedule and it has been great ever since. We still have lots of work to do on nap training to get him to sleep the full time without our intervention and to go down more easily, but each day seems to bring about a little victory.
Today I just put him down for his afternoon nap completely awake with no rocking, he cried for 5 minutes and then fell right to sleep. That was our little victory for today. I hope that sticking with a good schedule will continue to pay off. It has been so nice, if nothing else, to know when he should sleep rather than just letting him run the show. Anyway, all of that to say that he is even more happy these days. I think the poor kid just needed more consistent sleep especially given that we still have to wake him up twice during the night to feed him for MCAD reasons. Poor little guy won't get a full night a sleep for a LONG time...
I leave you with an awesome video and a picture of our little mama feeding Elijah
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