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@ChelseaRose: Mine is nursing anywhere from 8-13 times a day. She is pretty inconsistent. On average, I'd say around 10 times - but over the past few days she seems to be spacing them out more and sleeping a little longer at night.

@ChelseaRose: my LO just turned 7 weeks yesterday and is about 8 lbs. she feeds between 6-8 times a day. It looks like her average session is 23 minutes long. She sleeps about six hours a night and goes about 7 hours in that time without nursing.

@highwire: I put Lily in her own room (next to ours) because I would wake up and stare at her all night and DH stays up late watching tv and shd can't sleep well. I also didnt want her ro become reliant on sleeping in the rock and play. I do have the angel care monitor which measures her breathing, if not for that I would not do it.

@highwire: We had W start sleeping in his crib around two weeks because of that. I needed to be sleeping when he did, but I couldn't sleep through his loud noises. I never thought I would transition him so early, but it has worked for us. He even naps in his crib too.

@highwire: we've had LO in the crib since she was like 5 days old. I don't think there's anything that says you're supposed to sleep in the same room as baby. Some people just prefer it for their own piece of mind. Sometimes she'll end up next to me in the rock and play for part of the night but we both sleep better when she's in the crib. I figure we won't have to deal with a transition later.

@highwire: we also have our LO in the crib since the beginning as well. mostly because im kind of scarred from my brother cosleeping with my mom till he was in middle school (NO JOKE) and never wanted to cosleep (even in the same room) with my LO. but its good that LO is a good sleeper so she took to the crib well.

@LemonLong: i also slept on the nursery floor but just the first night! i knew if i kept doing it i'd never get any sleep cuz i'd wake up at every little sound she made. so i had to stop for my own sanity.

@ChelseaRose: LO eats abt 7 times a day. i think as long as your LO is gaining weight and seems satisfied 6 is fine!

@MamaMoose: my LO fusses when she's pooping or gassy. usually its only a couple min long, but sometimes it lasts like 10 min! i started giving her gas drops esp at night time when shes the fussiest and that's been helping. i kind of think it has to do with what i'm eating so i've been trying to watch what i eat more.

what do you guys do during your LO's awake times? i feel like LO is still young to focus on toys so right now i've just been doing tummy time and just holding her since i don't know what else to do! she seems content but i just don't know if i'm stimulating her enough.

@LemonLong: Oh wow. What a little peanut! She makes my little one seem like a giant baby.

@kodybear: Mine doesn't care anything about toys. I put her in one of those vibrating seat things the other day and she was sort of interested in looking at the stuffed flowers that dangled from the bar above. I think it was the dark/light contrast that got her attention. She batted at it a few times and was done....after five minutes she was crying to get out. I try to "talk" to her and walk around the house some, but she ultimately falls asleep.

I always worry that maybe she isn't awake enough. Her life is still pretty much a cycle of changing diaper, nursing (which she only does for about 10 minutes at a time), and then falling back asleep. She really is never awake for more than an hour - and at least part of this usually involves dozing off a bit in my arms.

How long do your LO's stay awake at a time during the day? She is usually up 30-60 minutes and then asleep for 1.5 - 2 hours. I'm hoping this is normal???

Her cord is STILL on (I swear that thing is never coming off), so we haven't done a lot of tummy time on the floor. She does spend a lot of time on her tummy while on my chest or stomach and seems to like it. But again...she usually ends up asleep.

@JessLC: that is SO exciting! How old is your LO? Mine is about 9 lbs and sleeping 5 hours straight at night ... Sometimes!

@kml636: she is 7 weeks old! I can't believe how "old" she is...5 hours is great too...anything longer than 3-4 is reason to celebrate.

This Baby Ktan carrier is such a lifesaver. LO was being so fussy and I popped her in here and she fell asleep immediately.

She is a mega sleeper (2.5 weeks old). I have to wake her for feedings during the day and she takes a 5-6 hour stretch at night. But she's still getting half of her food from formula and that takes longer to digest so that is probably why she is so sleepy. Plus, they just need a lot of sleep at this point.

DH and I both have struggled a bit with how much touching and holding and caressing is involved with a baby. Neither of us are very touchy feely people so it is a huge change. But I just read an article that talked about how touching is vitally important for development so I'm feeling better about it. DH is still coming around lol. But he is willing to basically do all housework, cooking, and errands in exchange for me holding baby so it works.

I asked this question about playing with your newborn on a different thread - somebody sent me this website - it's got great ideas for how to play with a one-month old

http://www.babycenter.com/0_lets-play-weekly-activities-for-your-babys-first-year_1501475.bc#articlesection4

How are all you ladies getting on with DH? We were snapping a bit at each other last week so we had a chat about what we could do to help each other more and it really helped. He was frustrated things weren't tidier, so I explained how you can't tidy up after yourself when you're doing everything one handed but, if he held A for a bit, I would happily take my turn tidying. He didn't realise how little time I get to do anything for myself but I said I really needed him to come home from work and ask if there was anything I needed or to take A so I can shower, get a drink etc, instead of instantly checking his email etc. Anyway it was super helpful.

@highwire: sorry you're sick. Hope you get some rest now your mom is on her way.

So disappointed, we used some of my frozen breast milk this weekend and looks like I have an excess lipase issue. My husband smelled it and was gagging. My LO still drank it though, so I guess that's good. My lactation consultant said she'd never heard of having excess lipase so she wasn't much help.

In more exciting news, my LO was up to 8 lbs 5 oz at weighing today. She's 7 weeks old. According to my growth chart app that puts her in the 8th percentile! It's a big jump from where she was at! We also moved to size 1 diapers yesterday, it seemed like just overnight her NB ones stopped fitting!

@Mrs. Tricycle yikes! that sounds wretched, hope he gets sleepier soon!

@highwire feel better!

@travelgirl1 we've definitely had a few tiffs - we are both so over tired and unfortunately he has a ton of stress at work and our move has added on top of that. but we are both pretty good at recognizing "silly" fights and apologizing.

@slr we try to keep his max awake time to 1 hour - but he definitely fights that during the day!

@kodybear we read books, tummy time, and look out the window.. lots of chatter! He loves to pull on things too so we busted out the activity gym yesterday and he likes gripping the dangling toys.

after several great nights in the hotel & new house, he has decided he doesn't want to sleep today. like at all, since 7 am stressing me out!!

for anyone else who said they were thinking about getting bigger flanges.. they are so much more comfortable for me! definitely worth the $15

Baby girl will NOT nap today! Every 20 mins she's up screaming. I'm starting to think she has reflux because she is spitting up constantly all of a sudden.

@highwire: how do you get your LO comfortable in the baby ktan? I'm having trouble keeping Lily "visible and kissable". Went on a short walk with her in there today and my back is killing me.

Saw my doctor today for possible PPD (he has been out of town). he said I don't seem to be having anything that is out of the ordinary, but that the Zoloft should help me cope. He also prescribed me a special medicine that should increase my milk supply since I still don't make enough to get her off the formula. It isn't FDA approved, but its common in Canada.