Okay, I have approximately half an hour to forty-five minutes in which to post something. Babysierra has finally quit screaming and gone down for a nap before his final feeding for the night. I heard a little whimper just a second ago, but it still sounds as if he has his pacifier . . .

I do love motherhood, but I'm pretty tired – and my brain is fried. I'd love to just blow off the rest of the world, all commitments, everything for a few months until I can get this mommy thing down, but I find that I'm more susceptible to cabin fever now than I ever was before. It's weird. I think it's because being busy keeps me awake. :)

I do have the easiest baby in the world. He does fight sleep when he's put to bed against his will, but when he's finally asleep, he's down for the count. I'm still trying to get him on a schedule, per the instructions in On Becoming Babywise (which gets kind of a bad rap, but you really have to take the principles with a dose of common sense and instinct, not just follow it blindly as the answer to all your problems). I was having some success getting him to eat, stay awake for a while, then sleep for a while – repeat as often as necessary – and I was getting four to five hours of sleep at night. However, he's had some days where he just sleeps. He wakes up for a feeding, then goes back to sleep. Then he's waking up every three hours at night to be fed, but only eating on one side for fifteen minutes or so.

I have to admit to being a horrible middle-of-the-night feeder. I fall asleep and he falls asleep, and I don't know if he's been eating long enough to get the fatty hind-milk that will keep him fuller longer and not give him gas (the fore-milk is sugary, so it tends to give babies gas if that's all they get – and this kid is gassy enough on his own!). Really, the only reason he cries is hunger, gas, and when he's in need of a diaper change. He's a great baby!

It's easier on me if I feed him several times a day, try to keep him awake once in a while, then give him one middle-of-the-night feeding after sleeping for several hours in a row. I'm more alert during the day, and I'm able to structure my morning a bit so I can get a shower in and actually do morning things.

Honestly, I should be grabbing some Z's now, but I don't want to feel all muzzy from not enough sleep by the time I have to feed him again (in about thirty minutes) before putting him down for the night.

Okay, so perhaps thirty minutes was an overestimate . . .

He's beginning to fuss. I heard diaper action a little while ago, so I should go attend to that. No reason to let him go back to sleep if I'm just going to feed him in a little bit.

Perhaps I'll have pictures later . . . Bye for now!