Starting on 6 Weeks with Abby

Abby is striving. Her mousey hair is starting to fill up, with a mini widow's peak forming at her hairline. Made me wonder where she got that from as Hubs and I do not have this ourselves. Then there's more changes... the not-so-subtle changes in proportion especially to the face. Her face is squarish now with 2 red almost-swollen looking cheeks hanging at each sides of her mouth. And both sides tumbuh rashes so icky! Head also become very berat but that never stopped her from swinging it around like a club. Brandishing it clumsily, Abby will drunkenly loll her head around, usually hitting our faces, chins or collar bones. If the impact is hard enough, she will wail loudly in pain. Burping and attempts to cuddle her is such an ordeal!

We bought her a sarong hammock. I know the arguments on how not to introduce this to a baby, as she will easily get addicted to the rocking and the parents will have a hard time weaning her off it. But there's nothing we could do to pacify her and make her go to sleep. She will twist and kick in our arms when we try to rock her, and often the crying will escalate to high-pitched nerve-wrecking screams. And this could go on for hours. It never ceases to amaze me how she can muster up so much stamina from such a small set of lungs to continuously cry like that. 

During the wee hours of the night, when she cries like that... it can really drive a perfectly sane person nuts. I'm puzzled on why she fusses so magnificently during late evenings, usually from 11pm to 3am. Did some research and some people said it's the accumulation of stress and overstimulation from daytime which leads to this. Baby will usually be inconsolable and will need to cry themselves to sleep or something at 5-6 weeks. Then there'll be separation anxiety later when she's older, teething pains, etc etc. Seems to me that it will go on forever. I sure hope it will improve after 3 months but Hubs keep telling me to prepare ourselves to endure this for 1-2 years. 

Oh boy, the stress :(.

On a more positive note, she's starting to take a strong interest in the mobile we have hanging over her cot. It is just a free gift from Anmum but now it's Abby's best new friend! I'm not sure how normal is it, but she coos at the darn thing when we turn it on. Seriously, she prefers it over us. (which is not a bad thing sometimes!)

Moon and stars dancing to Fur Elise!

Abby when she's in one of her better moods