She still seems better on her crying/fussiness spells. I don't know if it is just because she is taking a pacifier much more now and with her being swaddled but when she has these spells she will sometimes take the pacifier and calm down. We also went out on tuesday and bought a sound machine because we have been reading about getting your baby to sleep and we have been trying different things to try to get her to sleep better and we are trying to develop routines so maybe she can get on more of a schedule. We are trying to at least sponge bathe her every night because we read that she will associate bath time with bedtime and that will help her develop routines and know that it is bed time. We were giving it to her any time of the day. The sound machine we are putting it on the white noise at night time and this does seem to calm her and she likes it. The main thing is that she has got to get used to putting herself off to sleep. We were holding her till she went off to sleep and then put her down due to all of the problems we have had with her crying at night we felt like we would do anything to get her to sleep and make sure she would stay asleep at night. Also, with her spitting up and possible reflux the Dr. has said to hold her up for at least 20 minutes after feeding to help with that so that also has contributed to her being dependent on us holding her while she goes off to sleep. We now have gotten her bassinet elevated on a angle to help with this. We also in the past have just placed her in her carrier at night to keep her up and help her sleep. She seems to not like to lie flat very much. Anyways, we don't want to run into problems with her being dependent on these things and want her to be able to make herself content and go off to sleep without us. So we have been trying these different things to try to work on those things. The Doctor had said you can not spoil a child in the first month and I have even read you can't in the first 3 months but I believe this may not be true. She already seems dependent on us to hold her sometimes. With her being colicky and having the terrible episodes it doesn't help because then you will do anything to get her calm and try to keep her calm and to sleep.
Sorry for all the rambling. I am posting some pics. As my brother said him and his girlfriend noticed that Grace is getting a red tint to her hair. Have you all noticed? Isn't it cute??!! There is a pic of her in her new night time garb. We have started using the swaddle me and it works well now with her. It has velcro so it will stay swaddled much better than some blankets have for us. Now we actually are avoiding giving her the paci in the bassinet if we can because the other night she kept dropping it out of her mouth and then she kept wimpering/crying when she dropped it because she couldn't get it and I kept getting up all night and giving it back to her. So I decided it would be best if she can sleep without it for this reason. Also, there is a picture of Grace where she is most content---cuddled up to her daddy!!! She rests better like this than any other way!!! (AWWWEEEE)
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