Ellie Clements

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”