Dan and I made the decision to move Sienna into her own room at about 5 weeks. The nursery is right next to our room so not too far away and I think we will all sleep a bit better this way. Sienna is a noisy little thing in her sleep bless her, so being in her own room will allow her to make as much sleep noises as she wants without her waking mum and dad! We are hoping that with her in her own room she may sleep for longer at night as she will only wake us when she is really hungry rather than just stirring and waking us up then!
So far so good, she is sleeping like a little dream! She is also out of her swaddle and in a proper 'grown up' sleeping bag, which is very cute! The sleeping bags are awesome and so much easier to use, she can't kick her covers off either, which is fab!
We can't complain as she is a good little sleeper, she has her bath about 7pm ish, we have started waking her at around 10pm for a feed and then she tends to sleep through until about 4am ish! Our aim with the 10pm feed is for her to hopefully try to go until 7am. It will take time but hopefully will try and get her into the full night sleep routine soon!
Dan has had his second week of paternity leave which was lovely as he only gets to spend time with Sienna over the weekend. He gets home too late in the week so just sees her for her bath and last feed. I think it was a bit of an eye opener for him looking after Sienna for such a long time. I think he secretly always wondered why I never have time to do anything (have his dinner ready on the table when he got home) and when I say I was just busy looking after the little one he thought I was just sat cuddling her all day! hehe! She is such a good little thing but I don' t think anything can prepare you for having a baby.... all your free time of sitting watching TV or surfing the internet goes out the window as the little one pretty much needs 24/7 entertaining!!
She has started to enjoy playing on her little playmat which is fab. She only lasts about 10mins before getting bored and crying but it's nice to see that she has begun to play with things. We put a mobile above her changing table and she loves looking at it whilst we are changing her (she still screams her head off when we change her though.....).
I have started to notice over the last week that she is not a fan of entertaining herself..... she wants to be picked up and held pretty much at all times! It's lovely as cuddles are always good but when I am home alone and have things to do carrying her around all day is a nightmare! I am going to do a bit of reading up on how to wean her out of this 'needy' way. It might to too early at 6 weeks but I will see what I can find...
I went to stay up at my parents for a few days which was so lovely! It was the first time Dad has seen Sienna since she was born. I saw Nick, Abi and the boys which was cool too. Josh and Felix adore their little cousin and Felix was very cute with her, trying to be so gentle! I think Josh will be a fantastic older cousin looking out for her too!
I start my baby massage in a few weeks, which I can't wait for. At the moment she is not a fan of after bath time and tends to just cry when she is having her moisturiser done so I am hoping she starts to enjoy it once we do the little lessons.
Overall, the first 6 weeks has past and she has been great. We feel like she has been with us for a much longer time than that but we have finally got our head round her routine and having the little princess in our lives!
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