I haven’t written at all since I started back to work L I have been so tired! I will try to remember all that I can and include it here…
Personality
Oh my goodness- her personality is SO cute! I am just more and more in love with her every day! She laughs and smiles at us now. REAL laughs- with sound! It is so cute! The first time was around 11 weeks, October 16th. Joe was laying on his back and holding Addison on his knees up in the air. He would take her hands and swing htem in front of her face and say weeee and she would just laugh and laugh. Love it! She is also full of energy, smiles, and laughs while we change her diaper. She loves being naked, haha.
Oh my goodness- her personality is SO cute! I am just more and more in love with her every day! She laughs and smiles at us now. REAL laughs- with sound! It is so cute! The first time was around 11 weeks, October 16th. Joe was laying on his back and holding Addison on his knees up in the air. He would take her hands and swing htem in front of her face and say weeee and she would just laugh and laugh. Love it! She is also full of energy, smiles, and laughs while we change her diaper. She loves being naked, haha.
She loves to be held facing out so that she can watch what it going on. She enjoys going and doing more than being at home. She is very content when we are out and about. Very willing to let others hold her, and smiles at them pretty easily.
Nursing.
Nursing is going well. I got worried for a while that I wasn’t going to be able to pump enough to keep up with her for a while. I think my frozen supply had dropped down to only 7 bags at one time. I started really stressing out, but now we are doing well. It’s hard to get it done like I need to at work, but I am making it work. For several weeks in this time, she would sleep at my breast regardless of what I did to try to rouse her. This week, she all of the sudden started staying awake to eat aain.
Nursing.
Nursing is going well. I got worried for a while that I wasn’t going to be able to pump enough to keep up with her for a while. I think my frozen supply had dropped down to only 7 bags at one time. I started really stressing out, but now we are doing well. It’s hard to get it done like I need to at work, but I am making it work. For several weeks in this time, she would sleep at my breast regardless of what I did to try to rouse her. This week, she all of the sudden started staying awake to eat aain.
Waketime Length
It is so hard to be consistent with this considering I keep her on the weekends, Carla keeps her three days, and Joe keeps her two days. It’s between an hour and an hour and a half for the first two to three cycles of the day, then at night, she is awake and hanging with us most of the time until we start the bed time routine- so about 3-4 hours awake.
Nighttime Length
Well… she went for some time sleeping through the night, then during week 12 (Wonder Week and close to three months which is a growth spurt) she was waking around 12:30 and again around 3:30-5:30) Friday night, I had the football game, so When I fed her at 7:40 and he put her down around 8:30, she woke up around 9:30… he shh’ed her to sleep, and she stayed asleep. Then, she woke up twice more in the night and he was able to do the same. She woke up at 5, I fed her and put her back down, and we woke up at 8. So- that definitely counts as sleeping through the night. Then last night, she went down at 8:30 and slept until 6:30 this morning. So, we are back on track with sleeping through the night.
Growth
She sure does feel heavier! We don’t have any official stats to report, though. Wearing 3-6 month clothes comfortably with a little room to grow.
Swaddling
It’s back. After having lunch with Julie a couple of weeks ago, I told her that thought it was too late to go back to the swaddle, but I did sorta think we needed it. She encouraged me to try it again, so I stopped by Toys R Us and got one of those Velcro Swaddlers… amazing! (but I will say that we like the organic cotton one better than the other one we bought to go to Carla’s).
Wonder Week
Week 12…. SUCKED. There is no better way to say it. She was a PILL! Week 12 is noticing gradual changes, like light to dim and high to low, etc. Between that and the pending growth spurt- we had a hard time week 12 and some of the days on either side of it.
Our Schedule
Is a little crazy- again because she is with three different people during the day… but here is a sample on a good day, and what Joe and I are working towards…
6:30 Wake, Eat, Get Ready
7:00 Leave for sitter
9:30/10 Eat
12:30/1 Eat
3:30/4 Eat
7 Eat
8:00 bath and bed
Outings/Events
The weekend of 12/13 we went to Nanna and Pappa’s house to get a swing. She made the trip to two away games this month and did great. She has now been to three cheerleading competitions. Her cheerleading buddy is Kristi Smallwood. She’s helped me so much so Joe can have a break on Saturdays. Halloween is today… but we didn’t dress her up. Does that make me a bad Mommy? She isn’t going to remember it- I am on duty tonight, and last night we were exhausted from the cheerleading competition… I am sure next year it will be fun!
Outings/Events
The weekend of 12/13 we went to Nanna and Pappa’s house to get a swing. She made the trip to two away games this month and did great. She has now been to three cheerleading competitions. Her cheerleading buddy is Kristi Smallwood. She’s helped me so much so Joe can have a break on Saturdays. Halloween is today… but we didn’t dress her up. Does that make me a bad Mommy? She isn’t going to remember it- I am on duty tonight, and last night we were exhausted from the cheerleading competition… I am sure next year it will be fun!
Helpful Books or Websites
I got a book last weekend called Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week. I like having it better than the websites that we have been visiting, it has some neat resources in it and gives us a game to play and exercises to do each week J
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