The week is now over, but it has been quite the challenge! If you thought our tv watching habits were bad, they're definitely worse. Ethan came down with a really bad cold, and David was recovering from knee surgery. And with the cold winter weather and a newborn who sleeps round the clock, nobody was goin' nowhere!We did a pretty good job of keeping Ethan away from Kate, but our efforts proved to be in vain. She officially has her first cold at two months of age. Just a few nights ago I noticed her breathing funny, heard the congestion in her nose, and she wasn't nursing very well. As such, we let her sleep in her carseat to help with the drainage. The doctor gave me some symptoms to watch for (which would indicate something more serious than a cold), and thought sleeping in the carseat would be the way to go.
I'm afraid it has become her new bed! She actually sleeps REALLY well in it, and her sleeping patterns have remained more or less the same. She naps consistently, and is still sleeping for 5 to 6 hour stretches at night.
She is so amazing...she's the happiest sick baby I've ever met!
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I see we're not the only parents who've resorted to the carseat-out-of-the-car approach to sleep! :) Actually, we've had to place Nora (and Molly when she was a babe) in the swing to ensure that we all could get several hours of sleep! You do what you gotta do! :)
she looks so sweet - and so smiley! and I love the hair!
I provided daycare for baby who only would sleep in her car seat whether she was at my house or her parents. They would put the car seat in her crib at night. She slept that way for months. It worked!
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