Am I just lucky or is there a problem?

kit_kats_mom wrote: I keep hoping that I'm just really lucky with Lauren. She's such an easy baby. She eats well, sleeps most of the time and is ok with just being put down. However, after the intesive parenting that we had to employ with K, I am starting to get worried. The thing that really is starting to freak me out is that she's so easy to get to sleep and she sleeps so well. Seriously, since she was born, she just passes out and when we lay her down, she stays asleep...for a long time.

Here's an example of a typical day:
We go to sleep at 10, she wakes around 1ish for a short nursing session then she's up at 5:30..she farts, barfs a bit and nurses for a few seconds then she's back out. We get up at 6 and she naps in the bouncy seat while I get ready for the day. 7am she nurses and gets relaxed, I put her in the carseat and she falls asleep on the way to K's daycare. She usually stays asleep until about 9 when I nurse her again. 9-12 she usually nurses and dozes in my arms & we play a bit. 12, back asleep for about 2 hours, usually on a blanket on the floor. Up to nurse at 3 then back asleep. sometimes she's up for a half hour around 4. I move her to the carrier at 4:30 and she falls asleep in the car on the way to pick K up. She nurses at 5:30, sits quietly while we eat. About 6:30 every night is her fussy time and she cries and nurses until she has a big gassy poop and some barf which is usually around 8. Then she falls asleep again. From 8 till 10 she is alert for the most part but she does doze off if she's not being stimulated.

I swear, if it werent' for her loud sister and her gas, she'd never wake up. It's bizarre. K was NEVER this way. The minute you laid her down she'd start screaming. Am I just lucky or is Lauren retarded or autistic or something? Are we just so boring that we put her to sleep? I never worried about this with K...I was too busy playing the "oh poor me" card with anyone who would listen...she was such a freaking nightmare! LOL

If it's too bad, I get worried...If it's too good, I get worried. Being a parent is giving me wrinkles and grey hair.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: My last 2 were such easy babies! I thought there was something wrong with them, they just were way too easy! Spencer was content to just sit and watch people and he slept so good! Claudia was a good sleeper and was happy to just lye on the floor with her mobile. She loved to sit in her highchair and watch us eat. She was such an easy baby and still is so easy! We put her to bed, she doesn't fuss, she goes right to sleep! Enjoy it! All babies are different!

mammag replied: I'm thinking your lucky. Each of my kids were different. Keegan seems to be much calmer. I was just thinking (about 10 minutes ago) that it is amazing how he will actually just fall asleep on his own when I lay him in the crib. Conner wasn't like that at all. I say we just count our blessings and not worry about it.

DansMom replied: I would say just lucky too. Placid babies are great to have second. You appreciate them more. It's a temperament difference. My little sister has a placid girl about 6 months younger than Daniel. She's so easy to babysit and always has been. She'll eat or drink whatever is offered, and cleans her plate. She plays with any toy you introduce, and just has great joy without stress. Daniel seems high needs next to her (although he isn't by any means). He freaks out much more easily though, is a picky eater, and is generally a more anxious kid. They are all different! I remember Daniel sleeping what seemed like most of the time his first few months---it started to shift after that.

coasterqueen replied: I don't know about you but I'm PRAYING Megan is this way. Heck after all the worries with Kylie and being up 24/7 I'm hoping Megan turns out to be just like Lauren.

Course I'm sure I'll still worry just like you. It's mother nature.

ediep replied: my friends baby is like Lauren. She starting sleeping from 9pm to 6 am at 4 weeks!!!!! Jason didn't do that until he was 5 or 6 months old! He still wakes up during then night pretty often!! But my friends baby eats well and is very content to be in a bouncy seat. I hope most second babies are like that!!!

texasp3 replied: My older son didn't do all that sleeping, but he was so content and mellow my Dad was worried that maybe his first grandchild was retarded. Some babies are just mellow and not terribly needy by nature.

danahas4monkeys replied: Shhh dont tempt fate by asking lol! i totally understand you andrew is our #4 and from day one has been such and easy going happy pleasant baby i keep waiting for the other shoe to drop! my girls seemed like they were both very high needs and our other son was a good baby and is a good kid but has alot of problems that he has no control over. enjoy the easy going baby!

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MomToMany replied: I think you just jinxed yourself Cary! Now she will NEVER sleep, LOL!!

J/K!!


But I think you are lucky! She sounds like an easy baby! You deserve an easy one after K!

kimberley replied: i think you are lucky too... for now . she will probably make up for it in her teens lol. most first time moms (no offense to anyone because i was one!) are neurotic about everything and anything and therefore baby feeds off that frenzy and tend to be more tense sometimes. now that you are an old pro at this, you are calmer and so she is calmer. enjoy it while it lasts.

mummy2girls replied: Being that i ahvent expeirienced this but i have heard the second child is usually(not always) different from the first. so if your first was really fussya nd such then your second is more mellow and vioce versa. I hope its not true because then my next will be a monster

in a way i think it was true with me.. because with jordan he was really fussy and gassy and such but that was a big part to his disease. but i feel if he survived all of what he was put through and had to endure he would iof been a very hard baby with gas and colic and such. so i think thats why jen was as mellow as she was. I dodnt know i could just be rambling

Im quite sure your laureen is perfectly healthy and fine. you just lucked out and had a very easy baby.

I do believe kimberely about the fist time moms thing. I was very nervous with jenna. i was worried about every little poop she had and such. but im just lucky jenna did feed off of that

3_call_me_mama replied: Kathleen was the same way! Cameron was such an intense baby and Kathleen is so easy! Sleeps like a princess. I'm hoping she's gonna be a mellow toddler too! (keep your fingers crossed)

loveydad replied: Second kids are so easy!

Actually Hen was a pretty happy baby.

But his brother Matt was just so content, such a sweetie!

But the twins were a NIGHTMARE at first.

Then Tracy came along, she was also a nightmare. LOL

but then, THEN Nicky came along and he was SO perfect. He was quite, never cried, just kinda chilled. I swear I would have forgot he was there sometimes!

These things just happen this way. I thiink babies can sense that someones already ruling the roost and they better be pretty low key. LOL

Maddie&EthansMom replied:
I thought the same thing!! Maddie has always been SO STRONG WILLED and is rarely content. Ethan is JUST the opposite. When he was a tiny lil thing he'd just lay and stare at me for minutes on end. Then I'd go to lay him in his bed and he'd reach for his blanket and fall asleep. I didn't have to pat, play music, rock him or anything. He would just curl up in his bed and go to sleep (actually he STILL does this...don't know why I'm saying 'would') Anyway, I thought something was wrong with him at first too b/c he was so content all the time.

I'd say you are just lucky! God is giving you a break! Lord only knows we really need one after the first one gives us so many fits!

A&A'smommy replied: Alyssa was like that VERY easy going and slept ALL the time I had TONS of time on my hands!! I would have to say you got it easy this time and I hope she stays this way for you guys!!!