Mina likes to suck- A LOT. Yesterday I realized that she has been using me to help her fall asleep. Now, this is positively natural and a byproduct of being a wee bebe and exhausting herself by eating. However, she is smart enough now to start associating the two. So I am trying to help her go to sleep other ways- rocking, patting her back, talking sweetly to her. It appears to be catching on, but with a newborn, you NEVER KNOW.
Anyways, she woke from a nap earlier and was chewing on her hands and smacking her lips- a sure sign she is hungry. But she was also half asleep and in the kerfuffle that followed she managed to get her left thumb into her mouth.
You would have thought that I had given that kid a shot of Nubain. Her eyes rolled back into her head and she sucked viciously as if to say "THIS is quite possibly the BEST thing I have ever had in my ENTIRE life!!!" Then, as babies often do, she jerked her hand out of her mouth in a wild flail. And there, before my eyes, her world shattered. She exploded into a red-faced squalling fire-ball.
Luckily, she is a pretty mellow kid and as soon as I picked her up to nurse, she calmed down, latched on, and went to town.
She is napping now and I am off to find food. Apparently she is not the only one who wants/needs to eat every 2 hours. (they don't tell you about that in pregnancy books!!! however, thats another story)
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