Category: Day-to-day & Personality

This past week, Ellie has not been sleeping too well, getting up at about 4 and generally being fussy through the night.

We decided to try putting her to sleep without her swaddle, during the day at first, and then at night.

It was working out pretty well and we decided that last night was the time to try and let her sleep in her own room. She must like it, because she slept better than any of the previous nights and slept a full 8 hours. So we’re making it permanent. No more sleeping in our room.

Hopefully those four nights of interrupted sleep were an anomaly and she goes back to sleeping really well, except now in her own crib/cot.

Ellie is now 5 and a bit weeks old and I figured we’d share a bit about how her personality has developed since birth.

The first few weeks were, to put it bluntly, hard. Ellie was not a terribly difficult baby, but she also was not an “easy” baby. She could be quite fussy much of her waking hours and wouldn’t hesitate to cry if there was anything slightly not right, and at times, we both found it to be a little overwhelming.

On the positive side, she would go 2-2.5 hours between feedings most of the time, and at night, she would just wake up once and that was usually because we were waking her, so that she wasn’t going too long without a feeding, so we get about as much rest as we could hope for (though that doesn’t stop me from drifting off at 9.30!). Continue reading “Ellie’s personality at 5 weeks”