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ellenmillion ([personal profile] ellenmillion) wrote2012-05-11 02:16 pm
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Back to Best Baby.

I got THREE naps yesterday, one of them particularly good, and last night we got Very Good sleep - one block of 3 and a half hours! No diaper leaks, one false alarm, only one round of nursing and it was back to sleep every time, right away.

I was reading one of my baby books yesterday, and there was a section on 'Difficult Babies.' The first type of 'difficult baby' was: the Active Baby. It was like a checklist of Elsa, starting with wiggling in the womb, through sleeping less than other babies and being bright and alert most of the time. The biggest danger of an active baby is that they hurt themselves accidentally. I never, ever would have classified Guppy as a 'difficult baby,' not even yesterday morning, nor would I want her any other way.



Active baby is active!

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[identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com 2012-05-11 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
After reading a few baby books I... stopped reading them. And parenting magazines. Because of exactly what you note: they will frame something that seems within normal human variance as "difficult" or "problem." I really didn't want them giving me those impressions, you know? :P

[identity profile] flutterbychild.livejournal.com 2012-05-11 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What's so bad about an active baby? Seems like one would keep a new parent on their toes!
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[personal profile] jenny_evergreen 2012-05-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Cute baby soothes enraged Jenny! Yay! (MY baby has been a lil monster today. Also cranky with Tom.) *gazes at Elsa till I calm down again*

Bad baby book, no biscuit!

[identity profile] xjenavivex.livejournal.com 2012-05-12 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
get down with the genie
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[personal profile] rix_scaedu 2012-05-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
She's resorting to sign language as no-one else is yet as fluent in baby as she is.

[identity profile] mizkit.livejournal.com 2012-05-12 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
She's got the Travolta moves, I see. :)

[identity profile] pixiewildflower.livejournal.com 2012-05-12 11:40 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, sweet little one!

[identity profile] jenny heidewald (from livejournal.com) 2012-05-12 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Active Baby is Adorable. :) Glad you got some more rest!

[identity profile] polarbee.livejournal.com 2012-05-12 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I found a wonderful book called "Raising Your Spirited Child" that has some great information and doesn't treat active kids like a problem that needs fixing.

[identity profile] duck113.livejournal.com 2012-05-13 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
What a cutie!
My sister's 1rst baby slept through the night from the time she was brought home. But 2nd baby did not sleep more than 2 hours at a time until she was close to 3-
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