I think sometimes the GPs and paeds get stuck on their definition of 'normal', and unfortunately that's sometimes a young baby that sleeps through and doesn't cry, and doesn't have changes in sleep patterns. I find a lot of the things my GP says could be worrying if I hadn't already researched the matter (e.g. Belley sometime goes 7-10 days without a poop, my GP reckons she *must* do one every day).
I've gotta laugh at letting rip in the bedroom lol. My DH gets up usually once a night to go to the loo, and because our toilet is a fair way from the bedroom it's sometimes noisy, and coincidentally that's when Belley would wake up. I was certain he was waking her because the timing was always the same, and if he didn't get up then neither would she. A good reason to shift her to her own room I guess, but I'd still rather keep her with us and feed her back to sleep that one time.
And leaving your arm under his head, I got stuck like that once! The slightest movement and she'd wake, but she was so exhausted and needed the sleep, I stayed there like that til she was practically snoring lol.
As for the wonder weeks, if you just google 'wonder weeks' the first hit should be the site I use, I think it's called wonderweeks.com. It goes through when they are and what bubs is learning at that point. I actually find it really interesting to know "hey, this is what she's learning now and this is what she'll be able to do after".
Bookmarks