A lot to catch up on...

I have so much to catch up on! LOL

So Wednesday night Maya and I went down with H to see his daughter. Her mom lives down south in Orange County. Whenever H goes down, he stays in this great hotel in Laguna Beach right on the water.

It's fantastic... they have cookies in the lobby at night (yum!) and they feed you breakfast in the morning. We got two connecting hotel rooms so that we wouldn't be cramped and so that when Maya got up in the night, I wouldn't be overly stressed about waking steppie or DH.

Well, Maya didn't sleep for shit that night. She went down at about 8 pm, but was up at 11 and practically every 1-2 hours for the night. She wasn't fussy, she just couldn't get in a good groove of sleep. Probably just being in a new place.

We get up in the morning, and I realize the girl hasn't gone #2 in a LONG time. Like over 24 hours. And she is a 2-3 times a day kind of girl. I then realized that the last time she had gone it was also after like a day of not going. So then we were thinking that it is probably why she didn't sleep at all the night before. Gassy/constipated or whatever.

At around 11 am H's aunts met us for lunch, so they could see Maya. You remember my posts about H's mom? Well, imagine 3 others like her. Well, they aren't organic/hepa-filter crazy, but they're overly-chatty Philly women who blab in your ear for HOURS about things you really couldn't give two shits about. But when you look past that, they are very sweet and warm. I do like them.

We were just leaving the hotel, when the explosion of all explosions happened. Yup, the explosions "down there." OMG. She was filthy! Her pants, her onesie, her blanket - everything was covered in it! We went to the room, gave her a bath in the sink, and changed her. The aunts thought it was hysterical. Maya must have been relieved.

I was concerned about this, so I called the doc, who said we should give her an ounce of prune juice/water (50/50 mix) twice a day to get her regular again. So we went to the store.

Maya didn't sleep at all yesterday, save for a two hour nap during the day. For a newborn baby, that's crazy-making. They are supposed to sleep 16-18 hours a day! And she didn't sleep at all the night before, too. She also didn't poo again for the day. That being said, she cried most of the way home.... poor thing - just tired and constipated/gassy. I was SO freaking exhausted. We got home, I nursed her, and she fell asleep in my arms. I put her in the swing at 8pm, pumped, and ran to bed.

Guess what time she woke up? 3 am! My girl slept 7 freaking hours!! If that's not sleeping through the night, I don't know what is! She was just so wiped out.

As for today, things are better. She went to the bathroom (normally, thank god for prune juice), and she's been napping like a champ.

Every day is a new adventure :)