Dylan never really liked the swing, but Cameron was showing promising signs of enjoying it. We had a broken one which had us manually giving her a shove every few seconds or so, so we went ahead and used some gift certificates to buy and test out a new one.
This was, by the way, the absolute cheapest model they had at Babies R Us, but that’s not really the primary motivation for picking it! The other top choice — selected mostly for dual-option swinging (side-to-side vs head-to-toe motion) and option to plug it in instead of running it on batteries — cost twice as much and, worst, it was a crazy pink and brown color scheme!
She seemed to like it, but hiccups tainted the first trial run, so the jury is still out….
As you can see, when she’s awake, she’s very alert. Her clogged tear duct is improving, but now she’s developed some baby acne (something Dylan managed to completely and miraculously avoid)! Also, since she’s been sleeping for fairly long stretches at night, she and I have gone back to sleeping upstairs (I’d been nursing her downstairs between midnight and 6 or 7am so Dylan wouldn’t get awakened by us). It’s hard to believe that she is already 5 weeks old!
