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“So there I was sleeping as usual. I think I was about 2 hours into my sleep and all of a sudden, I am awaken to bright lights and clicking sounds. Dad, seriously! Must you always photograph me at 2am?! You have all day to shoot me, yet it is always at the crack of dawn. I’ll let you slide this one last time but if it continues, I’ll make sure to wake you up at 5am to the sounds of me sharting! You have been warned!”
Thanks to Methuse’s long time friend Sandy, I was able to learn a lot about keeping a baby from crying by following the five S’s. Sandy is an avid follower of Oprah and whatever Oprah recommends, well Sandy gets it. Last week, when in Santa Clarita, she lent me a cd and dvd by a Dr. Harvey Karp titled “The Happiest Baby on the Block”. Dr Karp was able to come up with the five S’s to help a baby in what he calls the “fourth trimester”, which is the baby’s first 3 months outside the womb. This is the transition state from mom to the real world. Off the top of my head, the 5 S’s are in no particular order, Swaddle, Shush, Suck, Swing, and Side. You do not have to apply all of the S’s at one time. The S’s basically try to mimic the elements that a baby has come to know inside the womb. It is an incredible piece of information for any new parent and even some advanced ones.
The swaddle is one of the main S’s that you should do properly. That is keep their arms to the side and wrap them so that their arms can’t get out but Calvin has this thing where he won’t sleep until he is resting his hand on his chin/cheek. It is so freaking cute and everything I go to grab the camera, he moves. However with persistence, I was able to get him just as he was falling sleep.
Last night, Calvin woke up at 2am and 4am to feed and it really messed us up. We are already trying to recover from the lack of sleep we have been having the last few days. Then we had to wake up early for a doctor’s appointment which we were late to because it was our first time rushing out of the house and trying to get Calvin’s stuff together.
At Kaiser, they drew his blood to test his Jondis levels and then we spoke with the Pediatrician to get an idea of how he was developing. Healthy as can be and the best new yet was he no longer need to wear the Billi blanket, which is an indiglo light that went on his back to lower the yellow levels. He was originally suppose to wear it for a week but after one day with it, Calvin defeated the yellow-ness. Although, I say being yellow is in the heart… lol
When we got back, we fed him the usual 15ml but he was drinking it so fast, we upped it to 20ml. Then it was nap time. As they say, “When baby sleeps, you sleep”. Although it is hard for me to sleep during the day cause I have a million things to do, I was so beat, I just knocked out. Thanks to my wife, now I have this photo to make me laugh whenever I am in a bad mood! Like father, like son!
