To this...
Then this...
And then back to this...
All within a matter of mere minutes.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Laura's moods this evening...
She'd go from this...
To this...
Then this...
And then back to this...
All within a matter of mere minutes.
To this...
Then this...
And then back to this...
All within a matter of mere minutes.
4 month check up
Laura had her 4 month well visit today.
We saw Meg. She's a NP. We were supposed to see Kit, but she wasn't in today :( We didn't so much care for Meg. I got the feeling she was talking to me like a know-nothing-first-time-mom... ugh!
Oh, and I've noticed a pattern each time I take Laura in...
Nurse: Are you breastfeeding?
Me: yes, exclusively.
Nurse: So how many ounces does she eat?
Am I the only one who thinks that's a silly question??? ha ha ha! Oh well!
Anyways... Laura is super healthy :) She's... ready for this? ....
14 pounds 6.4 ounces! That's around the 75th percentile.
25.5 inches! That's around 90th percentile...although, I'd venture to guess that's maybe a little on the long side of accurate? They always end up marking with the pen through her hair and it doesn't always look like they get the pen mark in the right spot...oh well. Close enough.
Her head circumference is 16cm and that's about the 50th percentile. Good thing it wasn't that big when it came out! ha ha ha!
She got all her 4 month shots today...same as the 2 month stuff so there was 1 oral (rota virus) and 4 shots :( Last time they had 2 nurses come in and they each did a leg and they did them at the same time so it was all over really quickly. This time there was only one nurse and it seemed like it took forever. Laura was in a great mood during the actual exam, but then it was running way past nap time and she was probably hungry... and by the time they got in there with the vaccines, she was already a crying mess. It felt like the whole vaccine part took forever and then it took a long time for me to calm her down too.
This was this evening... her chunk-o thigh showing off her battle wounds...
I ended up not even getting to feed her before we left - she was too upset to settle down for that. I got her in the car and we drove around the block and she finally passed out. We then went to the mall for a couple things and she slept the whole way through there. (maybe 30 minutes).
Then we went to papa johns and picked up a pizza and soda to take to Richie's work for us and his boss. Laura was definitely hungry at that point and I ended up taking her out to the car to feed her and she screamed most of the time. I didn't want to stay in the office because they were having a meeting. She ended up eating for a bit, then snoozing after sobbing for a bit...then when we went back inside she was just as happy and content as her normal self :) She was babbling away and being ever so cute!
After there, her and I went to my doctor's appointment. We waited for about 30 minutes to be seen and she slept the whole time. My doctor is awesome... she waived me copay fee today because of how long I had to wait AND because I brought in my cute baby :) I love my doctor :) She's awesome!
Laura was still asleep when we left there so we stopped quick at Tops for some groceries and then needed a quick fill up on gas and then we came home. She ate from the bottle and then from me. We have discovered that when she's that upset and crying hysterically, that she can't wait long enough for me to have a letdown - she needs the immediate satisfaction (bottle) and then I can switch her over to me once she's realized what it is I'm trying to do (feed her).
She took a nap after that and the had some happy time in her diaper on the floor. Then another crying fit and now has eaten again and is in bed.
I did give her some tylenol at around 5pm... not sure if it helped her or not... not sure if all the crying was just from a messed up napping schedule today (from not being home) or if something from getting her vaccines was making her uncomfortable. She's resting peacefully now though :)
This was tonight...she was playing with her precious moments animals that we keep on her changing table. She loves putting them in her mouth.
We saw Meg. She's a NP. We were supposed to see Kit, but she wasn't in today :( We didn't so much care for Meg. I got the feeling she was talking to me like a know-nothing-first-time-mom... ugh!
Oh, and I've noticed a pattern each time I take Laura in...
Nurse: Are you breastfeeding?
Me: yes, exclusively.
Nurse: So how many ounces does she eat?
Am I the only one who thinks that's a silly question??? ha ha ha! Oh well!
Anyways... Laura is super healthy :) She's... ready for this? ....
14 pounds 6.4 ounces! That's around the 75th percentile.
25.5 inches! That's around 90th percentile...although, I'd venture to guess that's maybe a little on the long side of accurate? They always end up marking with the pen through her hair and it doesn't always look like they get the pen mark in the right spot...oh well. Close enough.
Her head circumference is 16cm and that's about the 50th percentile. Good thing it wasn't that big when it came out! ha ha ha!
She got all her 4 month shots today...same as the 2 month stuff so there was 1 oral (rota virus) and 4 shots :( Last time they had 2 nurses come in and they each did a leg and they did them at the same time so it was all over really quickly. This time there was only one nurse and it seemed like it took forever. Laura was in a great mood during the actual exam, but then it was running way past nap time and she was probably hungry... and by the time they got in there with the vaccines, she was already a crying mess. It felt like the whole vaccine part took forever and then it took a long time for me to calm her down too.
This was this evening... her chunk-o thigh showing off her battle wounds...
I ended up not even getting to feed her before we left - she was too upset to settle down for that. I got her in the car and we drove around the block and she finally passed out. We then went to the mall for a couple things and she slept the whole way through there. (maybe 30 minutes).
Then we went to papa johns and picked up a pizza and soda to take to Richie's work for us and his boss. Laura was definitely hungry at that point and I ended up taking her out to the car to feed her and she screamed most of the time. I didn't want to stay in the office because they were having a meeting. She ended up eating for a bit, then snoozing after sobbing for a bit...then when we went back inside she was just as happy and content as her normal self :) She was babbling away and being ever so cute!
After there, her and I went to my doctor's appointment. We waited for about 30 minutes to be seen and she slept the whole time. My doctor is awesome... she waived me copay fee today because of how long I had to wait AND because I brought in my cute baby :) I love my doctor :) She's awesome!
Laura was still asleep when we left there so we stopped quick at Tops for some groceries and then needed a quick fill up on gas and then we came home. She ate from the bottle and then from me. We have discovered that when she's that upset and crying hysterically, that she can't wait long enough for me to have a letdown - she needs the immediate satisfaction (bottle) and then I can switch her over to me once she's realized what it is I'm trying to do (feed her).
She took a nap after that and the had some happy time in her diaper on the floor. Then another crying fit and now has eaten again and is in bed.
I did give her some tylenol at around 5pm... not sure if it helped her or not... not sure if all the crying was just from a messed up napping schedule today (from not being home) or if something from getting her vaccines was making her uncomfortable. She's resting peacefully now though :)
This was tonight...she was playing with her precious moments animals that we keep on her changing table. She loves putting them in her mouth.
Monday, January 28, 2008
7 weeks old...
Just posting a picture that my friend Debbie took when we visited her back in November... Laura was just 7 weeks old then. Ah, look at that spikey hair! I love it! I miss it :( Her hair is too long now and it lays pretty flat in the front. Still sticks up in the back though! (oh, and she's bald in the back now too!)
Saturday, January 26, 2008
An attempt at updating...
Wow! I guess between returning to work and having 2 holidays right soon after...and then being on call... I've just been busy!
Tomorrow, Laura will be 4 months old. WOW! Where has the time gone? I held a 2 week old at Christmas time (Cooper) and I honestly couldn't remember what it was like when Laura was that little.
She is changing with each passing day. It is amazing to see how her learning progresses. She went through a stage just around Christmas where she realized she has hands. She would make a tight little fist and just hold it up and stare at it. She did it to her right hand for about a week, and then a few days to her left hand... and then she must have realized that they're connected to her and that she can control them because now they are in her mouth constantly! She always has her fingers in her mouth - and my fingers - and her clothing - whatever she can get close enough...in the mouth it goes. She loves chewing on her little burp cloths.
Here is one of the times we caught her finding her hand...
In the past few weeks, she's also realized she has feet... and same thing...she realized they're attached to her and she can control them (somewhat!) ... and guess what... they're in her mouth too! It's so cute! Same thing as with her hands too...she started grabbing at the left one and then about a week later realized there was another foot on the right side. This evening we sat and watched as she tried to put both big toes in her mouth. Silly girl! Oh, and talking about putting two things in her mouth - today she had her pacifier in one cheek and her thumb in the other... she doesn't quite suck her thumb - more just chews on it and puts it down her throat. Sometimes she shoves her hands so far in her mouth that she chokes on them. Wonder when she'll realize that she controls how far they go and she'll stop putting them in so far ???
You know where that foot ended up, right?
Daycare is going well. Laura always gives Lynne a big smile when we get there in the morning. Then when I pick her up, I get the big smiles :) Little Lana is all over Laura - she's 2. She constantly is standing by Laura just saying "baby baby baby" over and over again. I always hear Lynne saying "don't touch the baby" as I leave in the mornings. All the kids adore "baby laura". They don't just call her Laura - it's always "baby laura". Or, as Simon says it (he's 2.5)... "baby dora"... he can't do his "L" sounds too well yet. Lynne says that Laura is the best baby she's had in awhile - great temperment, great eater, and great sleeper...even through all the noise.
Laura started daycare on December 17 taking four 2 ounce bottles each day. Then after Christmas we upped them to 2.5 ounce bottles ... and I think when she goes back next week they'll be four 3 ounce bottles. I think she's in her 4 month growth spurt. You know the post about her sleeping through the night? Yeah, that was a one time occurrence so far. After that one time, she continued her pattern of just getting up once at night to eat (anywhere from 2-4:30am) ... until last weekend. Since last weekend she's been up anywhere from 2-4 times each night! 2 times I can handle. 4 times was just crazy! She didn't even do that when she was a newborn!
Laura has moved her bedtime up a bit. Before I returned to work, she liked a 10pm bed time. Then she slowly moved it to 9:30... and then 9... and then all of a sudden this past week she's been skipping her evening nap (around 6:30 or so) and being ready for bed between 8-8:30! That's kind of nice. It gives me and Richie some time to see each other, and gives us a bit of time to get ready for the next day. I have been doing a "dream feed" for Laura now that she's going to bed "early". I get her up at 9:45 or so and feed her in her sleep... top her off before the night. I wasn't doing that in the beginning of the week, and then she was ready for her first overnight feeding JUST after I had fallen asleep. At least this way, when I get into bed I can get a good stretch of sleep before she's ready to eat.
Laura wakes up SO happy in the mornings...
(This was actually Christmas morning)
She typically wakes up and talks with herself before we go get her out of her crib. She is quite the mover in there... she's typically in a totally differnet spot than where I placed her. The other night, I put her in with her head facing south and her feet facing north... and she woke up with her feet facing sough and her head facing north. Total 180!
Laura is a giggler and a talker! She LOVES hearing herself screech and make new noises. Today Richie was trying to watch a movie and Laura was "talking" the whole way through it... and not too quitely either. At least now I'm not the only one who talks through Richie's movies :) That's one of his pet peeves... but he didn't get mad at Laura - just paused his movie and listened to her chatter away.
We're not quite sure how big Laura is right now - but at 12 weeks she was 12 pounds even. That was the day I took her in to see Kit when Laura was in the middle of her second nursing strike (my first week back to work)... luckily we haven't had another one of those happen (yet!). Our biggest nursing problem lately is that Laura is too interested in what's going on around her and she doesn't want to face in to eat. She'd rather look up at mommy and smile or thrash her head back and forth (happily) and "talk" to her meal. It's rather amusing to watch, but not great for trying to get out of the house before work on time.
Oh yeah, Laura's size - I was going to say that she has officially out grown her small fuzzibunz. We have them washed and packed up for kiddo #2. We bought her medium sized stash and it consists of fuzzibunz, bumgenius, and tkcuddlers. A little variety this time around. She should be in mediums for a long time - some kids even potty train right from mediums! When Laura grew out of the smalls, she was on the tightest waist setting, but the loosest leg setting - this girl has some seriously chunky thighs. She even has rolls on her wrists now! :)
4 month check up is Wednesday and then I'll be able to report back with a new weight and height :) Rich and I are guessing a solid 14 pounds!
Here is Laura getting dunked like a tea bag into her bath (by daddy)...
She still loves bath time! We even graduated her to her big blow up ducky tub...she sits fairly well now and with a little support I think she enjoys the bigger tub.
Happy in her bath...
Tomorrow, Laura will be 4 months old. WOW! Where has the time gone? I held a 2 week old at Christmas time (Cooper) and I honestly couldn't remember what it was like when Laura was that little.
She is changing with each passing day. It is amazing to see how her learning progresses. She went through a stage just around Christmas where she realized she has hands. She would make a tight little fist and just hold it up and stare at it. She did it to her right hand for about a week, and then a few days to her left hand... and then she must have realized that they're connected to her and that she can control them because now they are in her mouth constantly! She always has her fingers in her mouth - and my fingers - and her clothing - whatever she can get close enough...in the mouth it goes. She loves chewing on her little burp cloths.
Here is one of the times we caught her finding her hand...
In the past few weeks, she's also realized she has feet... and same thing...she realized they're attached to her and she can control them (somewhat!) ... and guess what... they're in her mouth too! It's so cute! Same thing as with her hands too...she started grabbing at the left one and then about a week later realized there was another foot on the right side. This evening we sat and watched as she tried to put both big toes in her mouth. Silly girl! Oh, and talking about putting two things in her mouth - today she had her pacifier in one cheek and her thumb in the other... she doesn't quite suck her thumb - more just chews on it and puts it down her throat. Sometimes she shoves her hands so far in her mouth that she chokes on them. Wonder when she'll realize that she controls how far they go and she'll stop putting them in so far ???
You know where that foot ended up, right?
Daycare is going well. Laura always gives Lynne a big smile when we get there in the morning. Then when I pick her up, I get the big smiles :) Little Lana is all over Laura - she's 2. She constantly is standing by Laura just saying "baby baby baby" over and over again. I always hear Lynne saying "don't touch the baby" as I leave in the mornings. All the kids adore "baby laura". They don't just call her Laura - it's always "baby laura". Or, as Simon says it (he's 2.5)... "baby dora"... he can't do his "L" sounds too well yet. Lynne says that Laura is the best baby she's had in awhile - great temperment, great eater, and great sleeper...even through all the noise.
Laura started daycare on December 17 taking four 2 ounce bottles each day. Then after Christmas we upped them to 2.5 ounce bottles ... and I think when she goes back next week they'll be four 3 ounce bottles. I think she's in her 4 month growth spurt. You know the post about her sleeping through the night? Yeah, that was a one time occurrence so far. After that one time, she continued her pattern of just getting up once at night to eat (anywhere from 2-4:30am) ... until last weekend. Since last weekend she's been up anywhere from 2-4 times each night! 2 times I can handle. 4 times was just crazy! She didn't even do that when she was a newborn!
Laura has moved her bedtime up a bit. Before I returned to work, she liked a 10pm bed time. Then she slowly moved it to 9:30... and then 9... and then all of a sudden this past week she's been skipping her evening nap (around 6:30 or so) and being ready for bed between 8-8:30! That's kind of nice. It gives me and Richie some time to see each other, and gives us a bit of time to get ready for the next day. I have been doing a "dream feed" for Laura now that she's going to bed "early". I get her up at 9:45 or so and feed her in her sleep... top her off before the night. I wasn't doing that in the beginning of the week, and then she was ready for her first overnight feeding JUST after I had fallen asleep. At least this way, when I get into bed I can get a good stretch of sleep before she's ready to eat.
Laura wakes up SO happy in the mornings...
(This was actually Christmas morning)She typically wakes up and talks with herself before we go get her out of her crib. She is quite the mover in there... she's typically in a totally differnet spot than where I placed her. The other night, I put her in with her head facing south and her feet facing north... and she woke up with her feet facing sough and her head facing north. Total 180!
Laura is a giggler and a talker! She LOVES hearing herself screech and make new noises. Today Richie was trying to watch a movie and Laura was "talking" the whole way through it... and not too quitely either. At least now I'm not the only one who talks through Richie's movies :) That's one of his pet peeves... but he didn't get mad at Laura - just paused his movie and listened to her chatter away.
We're not quite sure how big Laura is right now - but at 12 weeks she was 12 pounds even. That was the day I took her in to see Kit when Laura was in the middle of her second nursing strike (my first week back to work)... luckily we haven't had another one of those happen (yet!). Our biggest nursing problem lately is that Laura is too interested in what's going on around her and she doesn't want to face in to eat. She'd rather look up at mommy and smile or thrash her head back and forth (happily) and "talk" to her meal. It's rather amusing to watch, but not great for trying to get out of the house before work on time.
Oh yeah, Laura's size - I was going to say that she has officially out grown her small fuzzibunz. We have them washed and packed up for kiddo #2. We bought her medium sized stash and it consists of fuzzibunz, bumgenius, and tkcuddlers. A little variety this time around. She should be in mediums for a long time - some kids even potty train right from mediums! When Laura grew out of the smalls, she was on the tightest waist setting, but the loosest leg setting - this girl has some seriously chunky thighs. She even has rolls on her wrists now! :)
4 month check up is Wednesday and then I'll be able to report back with a new weight and height :) Rich and I are guessing a solid 14 pounds!
Here is Laura getting dunked like a tea bag into her bath (by daddy)...
She still loves bath time! We even graduated her to her big blow up ducky tub...she sits fairly well now and with a little support I think she enjoys the bigger tub.
Happy in her bath...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Sleeping through the night!
Whoohoo!!!
LAURA SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! And I don't mean the medical definition of 5 hours... I mean a full night! Fed her at 9pm, asleep by 9:30. I was in bed at 9:37... and she woke up at 6:40am!!! Of course, ~I~ didn't sleep through the night because I had to get up to pee and 2 times to check to see that she was still breathing...
LAURA SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! And I don't mean the medical definition of 5 hours... I mean a full night! Fed her at 9pm, asleep by 9:30. I was in bed at 9:37... and she woke up at 6:40am!!! Of course, ~I~ didn't sleep through the night because I had to get up to pee and 2 times to check to see that she was still breathing...
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