First Night in Crib = SUCCESS!

Well, I decided to make the dreaded transition of Gabrielle from her bassinet to her crib last night. This came about because she was consistently wiggling herself a quarter turn and got wedged the short way horizontally in her bassinet each time I put her down. The top of her little head would be squished up against the side and her feet would be bunched up and hanging over the other side. It didn't look very comfortable (or safe) to me so I figured it was time to move her to her big baby bed in her nursery. So, at 3 weeks 1 day old we put her down in her crib and she did fine! She slept for close to three hours, woke up and ate (offered an ounce of formula afterwards and she didn't even want it), went back down rather easily, and then slept for another 4 1/2 hours! Our little champ! I was very proud of her - and happy that she is in her own bed and not sleeping in our bathroom anymore :) Now, of course she will have good and bad nights, but at least the crib experiment wasn't a complete disaster.

Our baby monitor worked great and we used her swaddler that my mom got us. I had tried using it once before and she screamed and seemed to be engulfed by it so we retired it indefinitely. She was fussy last evening as usual and was flailing her arms and legs...smart me thought I'd get the swaddler out and put her in it - it couldn't hurt, after all. I wrapped her up in it and she was happy as a little clam! She slept in her swaddler too, so I think that will be a keeper for a while. I guess Grandma does know best sometimes ;)

We also conquered something else yesterday that I had been dreading - professional baby pictures. As you know, our little angel has a temper but I really wanted to at least try to get a few newborn pictures of her done. I took her to this kids portrait place in the mall - nothing too fancy. You only pay for the prints that you want, so if it was a complete disaster it wouldn't cost us anything. I made an appointment and when we arrived the place looked like an absolute zoo. There were about 50 kids and a collection of parents all getting holiday photos done. So much for the "appointment" I thought. Even though I had to park the stroller in the corner and feed her standing up, we actually got in pretty close to our scheduled time. There was a photographer and a helper during our little photo shoot. I wanted to be that over-baring, know-it-all mother who explained to the photographer that my baby was only 3 weeks old and to get any good shots of her that she was going to have to be very quick with the camera, etc etc....I restrained myself and it turns out that the lady knew what she was doing :) We did a few different poses/positions and we ended up with some nice pictures. Gabi gave us some sleeping and some with her eyes open even. She stared to melt down once but calmed down very quickly - I was so proud! Right in the middle of the photo shoot she took a giant poo - I think it bothered the photographer more than Gabi though! I will be sure to put up some the pictures soon.

Here are few photos from 2 1/2 to 3 weeks old...