Well the long awaited night finally came and went! It went really good actually, I made a couple mistakes that I will learn from, but for the most part we did good!
So Joanie left for work at about 10:30, and she fed Natalie at about 10:15 so she was good and full. We got her to sleep and Joanie was off to work!
I woke up a couple of time during the night because I heard some moving around...but I knew it was not time for her to eat yet so I was able to fall back asleep. Then I woke up again at 2:15am. Natalie was still asleep but was moving around a little bit. Now she has been going about 5 to 6 hours the first time at night before eating. It had been 4 hours and I decieded to feed her now before she started crying. (but after last night, I think I'm just going to let her sleep for as long as she wants to, and then feed her) So I warmed the milk up and pulled her out. She ate great for about 5 min, which was only about 1.5 oz. (she can usually eat about 4oz at a time) then she did not seem to want anymore? I tried some more to get her to eat it, but she did not want it. So I got a good burp out of her and layed her back in her bassinet. She fell back asleep after about 5 min and everything was great!
So then she woke me up again at 4:45, I could hear her kicking around, and sure enough I peeked into the bassinet and her eyes where wide open and she looked right at me:)
So since I had 3oz of milk left from the first bottle I decided to use the rest of that milk, well I had put the milk in a little cooler that i have by the bed so it would stay good. So the milk was nice and cold. (I am used to warming up room temperature milk which requires less water then cold milk in the warmer) So anyways I put the water and bottle in the warmer and turned it on. Natalie is very hungry by this time and she is letting me know.
The milk finished warming and I tested it....it was still very cold! So I added more water and warmed it again, but this time I accidently added twice as much as I should have! So now when the milk was done, it was way to HOT! Oh man I couldn't believe it! So I shook the bottle and opened to top to get it to cool down.....finally at 5:10 the milk was all ready for her! I felt so bad! But she latched right on to that thing finished the rest of the bottle!
I burped her again and layed her back down, she once again fell back asleep, as did I.
Then she woke me up at 6:15, she didn't seem hungry yet but seemed liked she just wanted some attention! So I pulled her out and layed on the bed next to me, she did good for a little while then it seemed like she wanted to sit up (like she was trying to herself) so I sat her up, and then sat her on my lap with my knees up so she could be up right and looking at me. She really liked that! I talked to her about her night, and asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, ect. Mom was due home at 7:20 which would be when she needed to eat again so all I had to do was keep her occupied until then.
Joanie got home right at 7:20 and fed her, and all is good!
So that was the first night....not as bad as I thought! And we will do it all again tonight!
