Baby Girl's First Night

Well, all of that nesting really paid off! We got a call to do respite care for an almost 6 month old baby girl. We're supposed to only have her for two weeks. 

She was asleep when she arrived but awoke shortly thereafter, around 7:30pm. She screamed her head off for 2 hours and 15 minutes because she had just gotten shots that day and every time she moved her legs it hurt. The more she cried the more she kicked her legs! I felt so badly for her! We did give her some Acetaminophen to help.

Baby Girl also had a lot of tummy aches from gas, possibly due to her foster mom adding rice cereal to every bottle she took. When I fed her in the middle of the night I didn't add the cereal. 

One funny thing she did was stare at my phone screen (I was texting and the room was dark) and it calmed her down! I thought maybe she had been used to falling asleep staring at a tv screen or something. I was glad she finally calmed down.

Here's how the first night went:

9:05pm 3 oz formula (I tried to get her to drink more to no avail.)

9:45-11:26 sleep

11:40 2 oz formula

11:45-2:05 sleep

2:22 2 oz formula

2:40-2:55 sleep

3:00 2 oz formula

3:05-5:41am sleep

Baby Girl loves Chico, our dog! She "talks" to him and grabs for him. Chico is quite fond and protective of Baby Girl, too. 

I took her to the grocery store this morning and she loved it! She smiled at me the whole time. It has been a very happy morning and she is now working on a two-hour afternoon nap!! I should be napping, too, but I got caught up on the housework. Amazing what messiness a 6 month old can cause ;) but I wouldn't trade a minute of it!