Tonight it was business as usual, except I made sure to give her a big drink of milk before taking her to brush her teeth and put her in the tub. "It's time for the nakies!!!!" She runs her little butt to the bathroom and pounds hard on the door because it's the BEST part of her day! After getting her cleaned and dressed in jammies, she usually gets a bottle from mom or dad while we rock her to sleep. Tonight, she got her sippy cup of water instead and a binky. I put her in her crib with both to keep her company, and she whimpered at first because she knew something was missing from the process. I handed her the sippy cup and again, she seriously heaved a heavy sigh of acceptance as she took it from me and laid down. What a sweetheart. She was fast asleep within minutes without another peep, and now I'm wide awake and totally torn up about the situation.
While I still have plenty of things that make her my BABY (i.e. binkies, diapers, uncontrolled slobber, wretched table manners, etc.) this is the first thing to go, and it's taking a lot of will power to go and wake her up to feed her a bottle.
And now, I will have to heave my own heavy sigh of acceptance, have a drink of water and fall asleep. But really, I'm going to cry a lot before that.
Marci
1 week old
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