I still can’t help it, I smile every time I hear the sound of baby Abigale crying. It makes me feel good in a weird sort of way. No, I don’t just like to hear her cry - but it let’s me know she’s awake and active. The only problem is, she seems to be more awake and active during the wee hours of the morning. The past couple nights in a row she seems to have become my 5 AM wake call.

Jamie will get up and feed her until she falls back asleep - seemingly content with milk. But a few minutes later, she’ll pout again and before you know it she’s into an all out scream. But she doesn’t take much more milk. I’m convinced she just likes it when Jamie gets up to hold her, who can blame her I like it too. But at what point will a baby start sleeping through the night?

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Well it finally happend! Baby Abigale was born on August 1st at 8:05 in the morning! She was a 6 pound 4 0z healthy baby girl. She was a c-section baby and i was thinking of calling her angel because she looked so beauitful and peaceful. Untill last night, when she through her own party. i was thinking of a slightly different  nickname!

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She woke up 2 to 3 times almost every hour! CRAZY! She is so good during the day sleep, eats, poops, sleeps….. she mustbe  nocturnal? I need to find the code to reverse this! I try to wake her a few hours before i go to sleep but she is so deep in z land its impossible. Poor Brad hardly got any sleep either, he looked like a monster this morning!  Hopefully in time she will figure out mamma is much nicer when you give her sleep!

Baby Hailey is now 18 months, and is taking all the new changes of having a baby sister pretty well. She tries to say abby but instead says abba. She wakes up in the moring asking for baby and runs in our room to her bassinett. She loves to give her kisses but then tries to sit on her! I cant wait to see in years from now the strong bond that they will form together! Motherhood is such a beautiful thing even if you dont get to sleep like a baby anymore!

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My poor baby Hailey sure has been through a lot latley! It seems like every week its something new. We think a mosquito got a hold of her. She had bites all over her one morning when we got her out of bed. She started scratching away, so we bought her a baby ani-itch cream. It didnt seem to keep her from scratching so i put bandaids over the bites. I soaked her in an oatmeal baths which is soupose to be good for insect bites. They were looking good and were healing up well. I picked her up from school and noticed her hello kitty bandaid was replaced with a plain one, and i could see scratches all around her bite. I removed the bandaid while i was giving her her tubby and tried to soak her in the oatmel. Later that night brad noticed her arm was swollen and had a ring of redness around the bite. The area was also warm to touch and felt very hard. We called her doctor who immediatley called her in an antibiotic and a topical cream. Brad took her to see the doctor the following morning and he said she may have a staff infection and doubled her antibiotic dose. With in a few days it seem to clear it up. What a scare! My Little Hailey is one tough cookie!

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