Things They Don't Tell You About Babies- Head shaping

My friend Tessa is obsessed with the "head shaping" subject and thank God because if you don't pay attention your kid will wear a helmet! When you have a baby it is important to put them to sleep in different positions to help shape their heads. Babies naturally want to gravitate to sleeping on one side or the other, head to the right or left etc. This is why you must help them by changing it up. I alternate Coco from sleeping on her left and right side and back all through her naps. This helps prevent torticolis (Torticollis, or wry neck, is a condition in which the head is tilted toward one side, and the chin is elevated and turned toward the opposite side.)

Do you know about this? Speak up Mothers!

Motherhood- Not For The Weak!

Mary Poppins took off on me. That's right. Nanny just didn't show up and left, also causing big drama. Now I am on the hunt again. Coco has been screaming her head off, so we are heading to the doc today to see if she has acid reflux like her brother had. She was up all night, screaming all day! Top it off with me having to interview new nannies. I am exhausted, emotional and feel like a mess.

This motherhood thing is not for the week is it? You carry precious cargo for nine months and then bam! You are supposed to feed, care and clothe it and yourself while getting no sleep. Makes no sense to me!

I have no time for phone calls, or emails (last count 735), or anything besides survival. My house is full of things that need to be done, all waiting on me!

I have literally asked myself what I was thinking having another baby. Landon was doing great, life had settled a lot. Now there is a tiny dictator in the house controlling us all! Coco is like the Mery Streep character in Devil Wears Prada. Remember how Anne Hathaway thought she was smart and sassy until Meryl threw her coat and purse on her desk every day and told her to eat it? Oh yes, that's me. Smart, capable (one fabulous mom right?!) then Coco comes to town and I fall apart. Yep. I am admitting it ladies. I don't have it all together or even close!

I am hoping things settle down soon but I am too emotionally exhausted to be hopeful! I keep thinking of my days as a single gal in NYC and LA. What did I do with all that extra time!!!!??

Stay tuned next week when I reveal Coco's real name, the winner of my stationary give away, the answers to all your awesome questions, and try to survive Coco my new boss.

The Mrs.

Sleep Solutions For Newborns Aka It's What I have to do to sleep!

I love reading all your comments about what you did to get your baby to sleep! Desperate times call for desperate measures I say. So here's my latest one. I nurse Coco on one side, burp her, and then nurse her on the other side. She falls asleep, I carry her in the same position to the bed and put her to sleep! I know, illegal. Where's the burping? She's not swaddled!? That will teach her she needs to feed to sleep!! I don't care. She's a week old and it's 4:32 am. So there it is.

The Mrs!

PS I will be catching up with all your blogs this weekend!!!

Sleep Solutions for Newborns- Second Time Parents Acting Like First Timers!!! ELEVATE ME!

Oh boy. Coco's first night at home was ROUGH! She slept all day in her fancy day gown (Petit Ami) but the night was a different story! I was feeding her every hour from 10pm until 2am and all she did was scream in between. We tried swaddling, shhhushhing, holding her on the side, burping, changing the diaper...nothing worked. Then we realized. She needed to be elevated. The minute we did that? She slept like a log. Hello, this is what happened with Landon!

We were so tired we forgot!

How about you guys? Newborn sleep dramas on your end? What has been your best baby sleeping solution?

My best tips are:

1)Keep baby in your room (in a bassinet) the first few months so you can feed them and soothe them without being far away.
2)Keep a swing (I like the Fisher Price Aquarium swing), in your room for the nights when baby is screaming, Coco sometimes sleeps in it!
3)Make sure you get some good burps out of baby or a screamfest will ensue!
4) Mylicon or Gripe water- helps relive gas!
5)Swaddling, you need to become an expert swaddler so that baby will sleep well!
** Towel from Pottery Barn Kids with Coco's name personalized on it!