Miss Elinor

Eli is now 11 weeks old.  When awake, she shows off her dimples by smiling a lot, likes to have gurgling and coo-ing conversations and is starting to hold up her head pretty well.

Her evening fussiness has decreased, but she still wakes up very frequently and must be rocked/walked/shushed back to sleep.  She sleeps a lot, but she's probably being carried (mostly by me) for at least a third of the time she is asleep.

I go back to work in 2 weeks.  All the preparation we have been doing in getting her used to the bottle had started out well, but appears to be backfiring since about 3 weeks ago.  She had been happily chugging away at pumped milk in bottles two or three times a week since she was 4 weeks old.  Then, all of a sudden she started to get upset at the bottles.  She has been crying more and more and drinking less and less milk from her bottles.  We tried a different bottle and it seemed to improve things the first time she tried it, but we are back to crying and refusing the new bottle.  We'll try a faster flow nipple to see if she likes that better.

Miss Elinor is ready for her walk in the hills of Devonshire

Eli is not impressed by those bottles