Spit Up City

You thought I lived in a city in SE Wisconsin but you were wrong. I live in Spit Up City. It's a strange place. The streets are paved with something that resembles cottage cheese and it smells kinda yucky. Everyone here changes clothes at least 3 times a day. There's random burping on the streets and you're safest if you cover yourself with a cloth diaper. I'm hoping to move soon. At least within the next 6 months.

Ugh. Harper's been spitting up SO much lately. No, it didn't coincide with feeding her solids, it started about a week or so ago. She's never been a spitter but now it's nonstop! I am wondering if she's really guzzling her milk a little too fast because sometimes she pulls away sputtering and choking a little bit. Today she spit up right in the middle of a feed and as soon as it was out (and all over my boob!) she went right back at the feed. Ewwwwww. She didn't care, though. I did some reading on Kellymom and everything I read there points to her being just fine but man, I hope she outgrows it quickly.

I also hope she outgrows her new found affinity for waking up at 5am! Ack!!! Even worse is that the time change is this weekend so pretty soon it will be 4am. Double Ack! She's also been waking up a whole lot earlier at night and wanting to nurse lately. It was 3:30 or later and now it's back to 1 or 1:30. I would like to put it off a bit but she gets really worked up and frankly, it's just easier to feed her instead of hoping that she'll settle back down and go back to sleep for a bit. The end result for me is that I just have to go to bed earlier and earlier. When she was getting up at 3 and then sleeping until 7, I could go to bed at 10 and be good. The last few days, though, I've had to go to bed about 9. I would like to stay up just a bit later so I could have some "me" time before bed but, for now, I think this is what I have to do. I just keep reminding myself that this won't last forever and there will come a time when I actually miss getting up with her in the night!

Other than that, she's doing really well. She's happy, napping a lot better (though I wonder if this has something to do with getting up so early?), and is really starting to use her voice. There is a lot of jumping, too, whenever I have her in a standing position. And, she now refuses to roll over when she's on her belly. She could roll no problem belly to back before but I've not seen her do this in a at least 2 weeks now. I wonder if it's because she's thinking about how to get herself moving? She'll lie on her belly and kind of rock back and forth with her arms and legs up in the air. Kind of like a turtle :)

Who knows!? I'm still just winging it!