This last month has been super fun! I've loved watching this little girl grow and develop/show her personality more! I've decided to make categories to talk about each aspect of her life these days.
Stats:
We go to the doctor next Monday so we will find out everything officially then. She's around 11 pounds and estimated 23 inches long.
UPDATE: at the doctor she was...
11 lbs 7 oz. (10%)
22 3/4 in. long (10%)
15 3/4 in head (25%)
Reflux:
Oh my how it has changed since last month. We were switched from Zantac to Prevacid and with all the other changes it has made suchhhh a difference! She is spitting up wayyy less than before. She's gaining weight now- yay and she's a happy girl feeling better! And she loves to take her medicine now!
Eating:
She is still eating really well. We're trying to stretch her 1.5 hour feedings out a little more to 2-2.5 hours. She still wakes up 1x per night around 5 to eat once we stopped waking her up again. Can't complain there.
Napping/Sleeping:
We just started sleep training her because of all the inconsistencies of her eating and the reflux and now we feel like we are starting new. We started putting her down in her crib in her room for naps and started writing down how long it took her to fall asleep and how long she stayed asleep. It has gone so incredibly well I'm in amazement! The most she has cried is about 25 minutes and that is the very first day we started and we were going in there to comfort her every 10 minutes. Since then she cries/fusses for maybe 5 minutes and then we can see her on the monitor fast asleep. It's wonderful! She's doing sooooo well! She takes 3 naps (around 10:00, 2:00, 6:00-ish) then we give her the Prevacid around 8:30 and we do her last feeding around 9:00 and put her to bed right after that. She sleeps great at night and like I said usually wakes up around 5 a.m. to eat and then sleeps until 8:30. We're still swaddling her because we tried her naps not swaddled and we watched her on the monitor startle herself awake so many times it couldn't have been restful sleep. I don't know when we will stop- she's a jumpy sleeper like her mama.
Clothing:
She is in 3 month clothes still and some are still big. She's just a little girl- I mean her parents were both shorties (Daddy until 11th grade) and I'm only 5'1". Being little's not bad! We've just got some super cute 6 month clothes I'm ready for her to wear! :) And she's also still in size 1 diapers.
Things she's loving:
-Dancing with Mommy and Daddy
-When Daddy holds her up and calls her Super Lexi!
-Her play mat, toys and swing
-Chewing on her hands/everything
-Grabbing Daddy's arm hair- hahaha
-Being on her changing table
-Kicking her feet
-Reading(listening to) stories
Things she's NOT loving (haha):
-Her car seat- she cries/screams when she's alone in the back seat... any ideas to make this better?
-Being burped (sometimes)
-Tummy time... she will last maybe 5 minutes and then she wants to be flipped over.
-Rolling over- she hasn't rolled over again since the first time (maybe it was a fluke?) but she gets to her side and is just content playing laying on her side.
Fun extras:
She is smiling and giggling so much now! She's so much fun to be around and you definitely see her personality coming out more and more! She loves being around people. If we aren't in the room and she's fussing and we put her in the room with us off to the side she's happy just seeing us. Her hands are still in her mouth all the time and she's drooling and blowing bubbles with her mouth. She loves to chew on things... we're wondering if she might be teething? She's not more fussy but we've just noticed a few little things that make it possible.
Firsts this month:
Sitting in the bumbo!
Instead of a collage of the month I took a photo shoot for her 4 month pictures and some of these are straight up adorable. Hopefully I can do another post showing some pictures throughout the last month.
Look at my belly!
I love the expression on her face in this next one...
Serious pose.
No comments:
Post a Comment