Emma likes her daytime sleep, it's clear. The fact that she likes her sleep so much makes several tasks a bit of a challenge. Feeding the girl becomes impossible, and showing her sweet little eyes to visitors is obviously difficult if she's bound and determined to snooze. In the first few days of life outside the womb the hospital workers casually say, "Now you need to be waking her every 2-3 hours to eat." I love this piece of advice. It's so much easier said than done. The nurses offer you all the tricks they have up their sleeves when it comes to waking a dreaming infant, but inevitably, you have a baby on which the ordinary waking tricks don't work. Here's a sequence of pictures that show the clumsy and totally ineffective process of trying to rouse Miss Emma.
Emma sleeping.
And thus begin the initial attempts at waking...tickling/brushing the side of a baby's cheek proves to have no effect.
Older brother can't resist a challenge. He chimes in with vocal proddings. "Wake up, Emma!" No dice.
Oh, wait!!! She might be coming around. There's a yawn.
uhhh... no. Emma sleeping.
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