So, right after I posted last night- of course she changed things up on me last night and today :)
Down last night at 7:00 and she cried for about 20 or so minutes
Stirred at 3:30, 4:something, and 5:05, but settled. So- NO EARLY MORNING SNACK!
6:00 bf + 4 ounces from the bottle bc I pumped at 5:15 when I saw she was going back to sleep- I was engorged, 1 hr 40 mins wake time
7:40 down silently
8:45- she woke, and Joe got her up- not realizing that she had only neen down an hour. So, we put her in the bed with me while I was napping.
10:00 woke hapy & bf, 2 hour wake time
12:00 down with about 2 minutes of wimpering.,
1:15 woke, fussy- after fifteen mins of trying to soothe- Joe changed her diaper to distract. She had a small amount of poop stuck. We figured that the bananas finally kicked in and she was constipated. Gave her some tummy tonic & I tried to go ahead and breast feed (around 1:45 by now), but she was not interested, continued fussing. We chalked it up to her tummy hurting. I rocked her and she finally went to sleep a bit longer.
2:30, i woke her to bf. Was still fussy, but happier than before. played at home for a little while, then went to Walmart. Fell asleep around 5:00 and woke at 5:45 when we got to Las Palmas.
6:00 started to fuss some, so I tried to give her some avacodo from the table, but I couldnt get it fine enough, it wasnt mixed with milk and it was cold... three strikes in A's book.
6:15 bf at home, then checked diaper- full and thicker than normal
Tried more avacado warmed and with milk... still not interested.
So, I tried sweet potatoes instead... still not interested in eating.
I was really frustrated- she wouldnt eat AND she was laying over in her Bebe Pod and would NOT sit up! had to keep reminding myself that her tummy was upset earlier.
In bed by 7:10, cried until about 7:45 :(
Monday, December 27, 2010
Sunday, December 26, 2010
22 Weeks
In hindsight, I believe that Miss Addison's new skills- squealling and spit bubbles can possibly be chalked up to teething. That's right- On Thursday night, Sammie had her finger in Addison's mouth and said she felt a tooth. We thought she was exaggerating on how well Addison chomps down, but sure enough, I felt in her mouth the next day- and there was a TOOTH! It's small and just breaking hte surface, but our baby girl has got herfirst tooth! It is the bottom right front tooth. So, All I want for Chrstmas is my two front teeth... she got one!
Not only did she see that song come to fruition... she got to see a WHITE Christmas! I have never had one in my lifetime! According to the Weather Channel, the last measurable snow on Christmas Day was 1882... that's 128 years of no white Chrstmases!!! I know she wont remember it, but we got a couple of cute little pictures.
Once we returned from Nanna and Pappa's house, we worked back towards a schedule, and it seems to be working. On Wednesday night, she cried for an hour, on Thursday, only twenty minutes, then on Friday- we got home late because of Christmas Eve Dinner, she was over-tired, but still only cried and wimpered for about 30 mintues off and on. Last night, on Christmas Day, she cried for a little while, but not too bad. Tonight, she cried off and on for thirty minutes again.
Feeding Updates: Tried Banana for the first time on Christmas Morning. She was not quite sure what to think about it (its the first one that I have not warmed up at all, and there was no warm milk mixrd in). Today, I pushed it through a mesh strainer to get an extra fine texture, and she seemed to like that better. On Christmas Eve, I tried to bring back avacado for dinner. But, I think that it was not quite ripe enough. It was ver difficult to mash and Joe tasted it and said it didn't taste quite right, so she didn't eat very much that night. So, while the other two Avacados ripen, we will finish off the sweet potatoes that I baked earlier this week.
Schedule:
4:00-5:00 sometime- wakes to have a snack for some extra caolories. Worried about this one a little. Since it is varying times, I am thinking it is still hunger. I've read that when it goes to a constant time of wake, it is habitual.
6:00/6:30 breast feeds
1-1.5 hour of wake time
7:30/8 down for a nap with very little crying if any
9:30/10:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (bananas this week)
1 hour 40 minutes of wake time
11:40 or so- down for a nap with 5 or so minutes of crying
1:45 or so- wakes
2:00 breast feeds
cat nap at some point, or a full nap- just depending on how her previous sleep has been
6:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (avacado or sweet potatoes)
6:30 bath
6:45 lotion, sing, bed by 7
Just a side note- she had some serious redness and scaley-ness on her trunk for a long time. We had put sesame oil on it daily to no avail. Joe asked Dr. Cordle about it at her four month appointment, and she wasn't terribly worried about it. She made some suggestions, but they were all things we were pretty much doing right- natural soap, not bathing every day, she did suggest using hte sesame oil without the lavendar in it though. So we tried that for a few days. Then, shortly after the appointment, we were at my mom's house. She gave us some Pau D'Arco lotion. It was a miricle lotion!!!!! Her body feels so smooth and looks great! I am so impressed. I believe in the things my mom promotes, but this was an INSTANT improvement! Great News :)
Not only did she see that song come to fruition... she got to see a WHITE Christmas! I have never had one in my lifetime! According to the Weather Channel, the last measurable snow on Christmas Day was 1882... that's 128 years of no white Chrstmases!!! I know she wont remember it, but we got a couple of cute little pictures.
Once we returned from Nanna and Pappa's house, we worked back towards a schedule, and it seems to be working. On Wednesday night, she cried for an hour, on Thursday, only twenty minutes, then on Friday- we got home late because of Christmas Eve Dinner, she was over-tired, but still only cried and wimpered for about 30 mintues off and on. Last night, on Christmas Day, she cried for a little while, but not too bad. Tonight, she cried off and on for thirty minutes again.
Feeding Updates: Tried Banana for the first time on Christmas Morning. She was not quite sure what to think about it (its the first one that I have not warmed up at all, and there was no warm milk mixrd in). Today, I pushed it through a mesh strainer to get an extra fine texture, and she seemed to like that better. On Christmas Eve, I tried to bring back avacado for dinner. But, I think that it was not quite ripe enough. It was ver difficult to mash and Joe tasted it and said it didn't taste quite right, so she didn't eat very much that night. So, while the other two Avacados ripen, we will finish off the sweet potatoes that I baked earlier this week.
Schedule:
4:00-5:00 sometime- wakes to have a snack for some extra caolories. Worried about this one a little. Since it is varying times, I am thinking it is still hunger. I've read that when it goes to a constant time of wake, it is habitual.
6:00/6:30 breast feeds
1-1.5 hour of wake time
7:30/8 down for a nap with very little crying if any
9:30/10:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (bananas this week)
1 hour 40 minutes of wake time
11:40 or so- down for a nap with 5 or so minutes of crying
1:45 or so- wakes
2:00 breast feeds
cat nap at some point, or a full nap- just depending on how her previous sleep has been
6:00 breast feeds, then eats solids (avacado or sweet potatoes)
6:30 bath
6:45 lotion, sing, bed by 7
Just a side note- she had some serious redness and scaley-ness on her trunk for a long time. We had put sesame oil on it daily to no avail. Joe asked Dr. Cordle about it at her four month appointment, and she wasn't terribly worried about it. She made some suggestions, but they were all things we were pretty much doing right- natural soap, not bathing every day, she did suggest using hte sesame oil without the lavendar in it though. So we tried that for a few days. Then, shortly after the appointment, we were at my mom's house. She gave us some Pau D'Arco lotion. It was a miricle lotion!!!!! Her body feels so smooth and looks great! I am so impressed. I believe in the things my mom promotes, but this was an INSTANT improvement! Great News :)
Monday, December 20, 2010
21 weeks... Baby's First Christmas
It's been a while since I posted, so I will just put in some of the biggies that I have not been able to update about...
17 weeks- dropped the dream feed!
11-21-10 Sunday- Addison rolled back to belly
18 weeks- moved herself to a four hour schedule
19 weeks- started solid foods! Friday 12/10 tried homemade brown rice cereal and LOVED it!
20 weeks- Learned how to SQUEAL/SCREAM! Started blowing extreme spit bubbles!
Baby's First Thanksgiving- at the Masters' house. Big crew!!! 12-18 Tried Avacado for the first time! Loved it, too!
21 weeks- spent several days out of town. Met the Sheperd side of the family. Because of travel... she was ill as a hornet!!! But, everyone said how beautiful she was :) Added Rice Cereal to morning routine. Avacado in the evenings with a side of a little rice creal. (RC from the box while we are on vaca)
Here is our current schedule when at home. We are still working on naps and wake times. Its just really hard to regulate with the different people that keep her through the week. Also, she is having some problems with waking early. From what I can tell, she is waking early because of a decrease in calories as she has moved to a four hour schedule. Here is our most recent schedule...
5:00 wakes screaming. Trying a mini feed and straight back down to bed.
6:30 breastfeed- maybe rice cereal here?
10:30 breastfeed or 5 ounces- maybe rice cereal here?
2:30 breastfeed or 6 ounces
6:00 breastfeed, solids
7:00 in bed.
She is at a point now where she does pretty good with bed time. Sometimes, not a peep, but other times she does CIO for a while... 30 mins or so. We also have got her doing CIO if she wakes in the night. She wakes up and cries for either exactly 10 minutes or exactly 20 mins. But, since we let her cio at those times, she most recently has been sleeping all the way through the night. Well, that is until the early a.m. wake times. But, from what I have read that is common with babies around 4 months old because of adjusting to a longer schedule and a decrease in breastmilk calorie intake.
Her temperment is so funny right now! My newest names for her are turtle and Addi Jo! Turtle is because she has started arching her back and leaning as far back as she can to see what's around her and to show us that she's mad! It amazes me how she can turn that neck. Sometimes she moves her way up to the corner of her crib and falls asleep with her neck all crooked up in the corner! Somehow, she levels back out. Addi Jo because she is starting to show that she not only LOOKS just like her Daddy, but she acts like him too :) Joe said she was laying under her jungle gym and pulled down the monkey (that is supposed to get pulled down). Then, she decided she wanted to hold the toucan. Well... he is attached. He said that she pulled so hard that she almost pulled the whole thing down on top of her! then squealed when she couldnt get it! That's his girl alright!!
A couple of little stories...
After we returned from Thanksgiving, we decided that we had to drop the swaddle bcause she was rolling over in it and we thought that was dangerous since she would not be able to hold her head up if this happened and her arms were wrapped up. Anyway- because of being sick, rolling over, and dropping the swaddle... we had been spoiling her at sleep times. We would hand-rock her and shhhhh her. She was beginning to depend on it. So, we decided it was absolutely necessary for us to start doing cry-it-out again... One night Joe and I were at our wits ends! He decided to go in and try to help her fall asleep once more. He put his elbows in her crib and put his head in his hands. She reached up and put both of her hands on his hands. He looked up at her and she gently moved one hand to her Daddy's cheek! So stinkin cute!!! That's our angel!
Last week, Joe and I walked by her room when she was taking one of her awesome naps. She was in a light sleep cycle and she was reaching up towards the crib bumper. She was grabbing for the top of it! She finally got it and was sleeping holding on to it and even pulling it down towards her face. While I breastfeed her, she reaches up for my face and grabs at my bra straps or the shirt I have on. SO I think that's where this is coming from.
That reminds me... While we were in Metter and Jacksonville for Thankgiving... Addison was waking and getting her arms out of her swaddle. She would take her hand and reach for the screening on her pack n play. She was scratching it like a cat! We were cracking up at it!!!
We have also discovered that Addison likes to sleep with her face right on the bumper pad. We would put her down in the middle of her crib and she would owrk her way over to the bumper pad. Joe had an epiphany one day and figured out that it must be like the same sensation she feels she is held in our arms and her face is on our shirt! Smart man, my hubby!
Lastly, she reaches up for my face all the time now. While I am feeding her, she will reach up and touch my lips or my chin. It is the sweetest thing I have ever seen! She was having trouble sleeping in the pack n play this trip down to Metter. So, I put her in the bed beside us and she reached over touched my face and fell right to sleep! ANGEL. How in the world am I ever going to want to put her back in her own bed, haha!
17 weeks- dropped the dream feed!
11-21-10 Sunday- Addison rolled back to belly
18 weeks- moved herself to a four hour schedule
19 weeks- started solid foods! Friday 12/10 tried homemade brown rice cereal and LOVED it!
20 weeks- Learned how to SQUEAL/SCREAM! Started blowing extreme spit bubbles!
Baby's First Thanksgiving- at the Masters' house. Big crew!!! 12-18 Tried Avacado for the first time! Loved it, too!
21 weeks- spent several days out of town. Met the Sheperd side of the family. Because of travel... she was ill as a hornet!!! But, everyone said how beautiful she was :) Added Rice Cereal to morning routine. Avacado in the evenings with a side of a little rice creal. (RC from the box while we are on vaca)
Here is our current schedule when at home. We are still working on naps and wake times. Its just really hard to regulate with the different people that keep her through the week. Also, she is having some problems with waking early. From what I can tell, she is waking early because of a decrease in calories as she has moved to a four hour schedule. Here is our most recent schedule...
5:00 wakes screaming. Trying a mini feed and straight back down to bed.
6:30 breastfeed- maybe rice cereal here?
10:30 breastfeed or 5 ounces- maybe rice cereal here?
2:30 breastfeed or 6 ounces
6:00 breastfeed, solids
7:00 in bed.
She is at a point now where she does pretty good with bed time. Sometimes, not a peep, but other times she does CIO for a while... 30 mins or so. We also have got her doing CIO if she wakes in the night. She wakes up and cries for either exactly 10 minutes or exactly 20 mins. But, since we let her cio at those times, she most recently has been sleeping all the way through the night. Well, that is until the early a.m. wake times. But, from what I have read that is common with babies around 4 months old because of adjusting to a longer schedule and a decrease in breastmilk calorie intake.
Her temperment is so funny right now! My newest names for her are turtle and Addi Jo! Turtle is because she has started arching her back and leaning as far back as she can to see what's around her and to show us that she's mad! It amazes me how she can turn that neck. Sometimes she moves her way up to the corner of her crib and falls asleep with her neck all crooked up in the corner! Somehow, she levels back out. Addi Jo because she is starting to show that she not only LOOKS just like her Daddy, but she acts like him too :) Joe said she was laying under her jungle gym and pulled down the monkey (that is supposed to get pulled down). Then, she decided she wanted to hold the toucan. Well... he is attached. He said that she pulled so hard that she almost pulled the whole thing down on top of her! then squealed when she couldnt get it! That's his girl alright!!
A couple of little stories...
After we returned from Thanksgiving, we decided that we had to drop the swaddle bcause she was rolling over in it and we thought that was dangerous since she would not be able to hold her head up if this happened and her arms were wrapped up. Anyway- because of being sick, rolling over, and dropping the swaddle... we had been spoiling her at sleep times. We would hand-rock her and shhhhh her. She was beginning to depend on it. So, we decided it was absolutely necessary for us to start doing cry-it-out again... One night Joe and I were at our wits ends! He decided to go in and try to help her fall asleep once more. He put his elbows in her crib and put his head in his hands. She reached up and put both of her hands on his hands. He looked up at her and she gently moved one hand to her Daddy's cheek! So stinkin cute!!! That's our angel!
Last week, Joe and I walked by her room when she was taking one of her awesome naps. She was in a light sleep cycle and she was reaching up towards the crib bumper. She was grabbing for the top of it! She finally got it and was sleeping holding on to it and even pulling it down towards her face. While I breastfeed her, she reaches up for my face and grabs at my bra straps or the shirt I have on. SO I think that's where this is coming from.
That reminds me... While we were in Metter and Jacksonville for Thankgiving... Addison was waking and getting her arms out of her swaddle. She would take her hand and reach for the screening on her pack n play. She was scratching it like a cat! We were cracking up at it!!!
We have also discovered that Addison likes to sleep with her face right on the bumper pad. We would put her down in the middle of her crib and she would owrk her way over to the bumper pad. Joe had an epiphany one day and figured out that it must be like the same sensation she feels she is held in our arms and her face is on our shirt! Smart man, my hubby!
Lastly, she reaches up for my face all the time now. While I am feeding her, she will reach up and touch my lips or my chin. It is the sweetest thing I have ever seen! She was having trouble sleeping in the pack n play this trip down to Metter. So, I put her in the bed beside us and she reached over touched my face and fell right to sleep! ANGEL. How in the world am I ever going to want to put her back in her own bed, haha!
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