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  • Lydia Summaries Moving to Becoming Eden

    My husband and I started a new blog together, and starting this week, I’m going to be posting the Lydia summaries over there instead. If you’re interested in following her progress, check out Becoming Eden. (Follow the link and you’ll see a new picture of her and some of the other babies from our homebirth…

  • Seventeen Weeks of Lydia

    Lydia is seventeen weeks old today! It was another pretty big week for us, and I had an aha moment that changed a lot of things at once, so I’ll start there with that. I figured out that, at least recently, I’d been over-soothing Lydia. As in, not just responding to her cries right away…

  • Sixteen Weeks of Lydia

    Lydia is now sixteen weeks old. As I am writing this she is waving around her one toy that makes noise when you move it, and squirming around on her playmate quite a bit.  This week has been somewhat crazy, since the first five days of it included being at a seminar, so Will, Lydia,…

  • Fifteen Weeks of Lydia

    Lydia is now fifteen weeks old! (This summary is posted late because my blog seemed to be down.) Sleep I know last week I said that I was going to try to encourage her to fall asleep on her own. I haven’t done any of that, and I’ve somewhat retreated from that intention. I talked…

  • Fourteen Weeks of Lydia

    Lydia is now fourteen weeks old, and it’s time for another summary. Sleep She’s doing about the same as last week. She got up early one day, and I was thinking that would be a pattern, but then she’s back to doing around 10-9:30 or so (with feeding in there). The biggest change is that…