I love being a Mom

Sorry it has taken me forever to post again... I truly am savouring my precious baby moments because she is growing so fast before my eyes.  I am so happy when we go out into public that people comment how teeny she is, it makes me feel that the precious time isn't slipping away so fast.

I can't believe little miss is almost seven weeks old!  She finally has started to fit into newborn clothes and she always surpasses all expectations for her.  She is a happy content little baby as long as she is in the room with you.  Jessa is already a social butterfly and refuses to sleep at church because she is so curious as to what is going on around her.  It makes it difficult to be in class because she needs to be in constant movement but it is wonderful having Jessa in our home and family.

When my mom came to visit a week ago when we all were so sick, she tried for three hours to get my little pumpkin to sleep.  She just is so alert and so happy to know what is going on around her.  The trick to get her to sleep was to only swaddle one arm and leave the other one out.  It works really well when my kitten wants to be swaddled some times we bounce her to sleep sitting up on our knee which seems to be her favorite.  I love putting her on my shoulder and watching her as she puts her head down and slowly stretches out her hands.  She looks like a kitten when they knead at their mother for milk.

Sometimes I have to admit it is hard being a mom and yesterday Jessa and I struggled.  Daddy went to work and she slept an hour and a half in fifteen minute increments the entire nine hours he was gone.  We both had a cry of frustration I am sure, and I am grateful that in these days we have the internet.  After much searching I found a mom's advice that seemed so simple.  Too many times we rush to put our babies down so we can do the necessities of life but sometimes they just need the extra ten or fifteen minutes to get them into that deep sleep.  As a new mom she said her baby would cry and she would try something else so much that her baby got over stimulated... and yesterday out of sheer desperation I found myself doing just that.  Bouncing baby, rocking baby, laying baby down, putting baby in bouncy chair, swaddling her and then wrapping her no wonder she was so grumpy with me.  So now I am trying to enjoy Jessa more on her terms and it has helped.  At night we turn the lights off and change into pyjamas where we rock to sleep and she sleeps in bed with momma... during the day she now gets her 45 minutes of awake time after feeds where we read scriptures, or books, or dance to songs we got from the library.  I want Jessa to feel a secure attachment with us and know that she can always come to us and I know she feels it because she rarely cries and when she does it is because something is wrong or she needs something.  Sometimes it is because her tummy hurts from gas, that she wants to be picked up, or that she is hungry.  But other than that all we hear are her giggles in her sleep and it is one of my favorite sounds in the entire world.

I love Jessa she really is a great little baby and I love being her mom!