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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Big 4 months!
Ellie will be 4 months on Thursday! I can't believe that she is already that old...or young I guess?!
She is getting so so big-we have her check up appointment on Thursday and I am so anxious to see how much she weighs and how long she has gotten. She can't wear 3 month clothes anymore and but she is still a little too small for 6 month clothes, so she is in between sizes.
Jeff and I are adjusting pretty well to being parents. We have a lot of fun playing with Ellie, seeing her do her 'mini push-ups', roll from side to side and 'talk' or yell as the case may be at us. I just love waking up to see her smiling face in the morning-it makes the waking up for night feedings, losing sleep, wearing no make up, having messy hair etc...all worth it! She is my little love bug :)
Well...I will update probably after her doctor's appointment with all her stats and keep you updated on when she starts crawling which I think will be sooner than we know it!
She is getting so so big-we have her check up appointment on Thursday and I am so anxious to see how much she weighs and how long she has gotten. She can't wear 3 month clothes anymore and but she is still a little too small for 6 month clothes, so she is in between sizes.
Jeff and I are adjusting pretty well to being parents. We have a lot of fun playing with Ellie, seeing her do her 'mini push-ups', roll from side to side and 'talk' or yell as the case may be at us. I just love waking up to see her smiling face in the morning-it makes the waking up for night feedings, losing sleep, wearing no make up, having messy hair etc...all worth it! She is my little love bug :)
Well...I will update probably after her doctor's appointment with all her stats and keep you updated on when she starts crawling which I think will be sooner than we know it!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
2 Months Old!
Ellie is two months old today! I can't believe how fast these 2 months went by...so crazy!
She is starting to sleep better at night going about 5 hours, waking up and then going back to sleep for another 3. I still don't get as much sleep as I'm used to but it is definitely better than the waking up every 2 hours thing she was doing at the beginning!
Will update on her weight and height after her doctor's appointment on Monday :)
She is starting to sleep better at night going about 5 hours, waking up and then going back to sleep for another 3. I still don't get as much sleep as I'm used to but it is definitely better than the waking up every 2 hours thing she was doing at the beginning!
Will update on her weight and height after her doctor's appointment on Monday :)
Friday, March 18, 2011
Quick updates
We started a complete bedtime routine.
We had to take the lil lady to the doctor today because her eye is just getting really gross. She has clogged tear ducts and apparently the yellow gooey discharge that she has been having is abnormal for a baby this age. So now we have to take her to the eye doctor next week to have it checked out-not excited at all.
On a good note she is gaining weight well-which for some reason is something the doctor seems so concerned about-she is 10 lbs 8 ounces! Little chunky monkey:) and everything else looks good so no physical abnormalities which is something he was also looking for since she has other issues like...
THROW UP! and lots of it-she finally threw up on Jeff for once today! But anywho-there are several possibilities as to why she is throwing up
1) she has acid reflux (this one is kinda iffy since she doesn't throw up after every meal nor does she even spit up after every meal)
2)she is too full-she doesn't poop as much on formula
3)she is developing a milk protein allergy
So we'll have to wait and see how this develops-at her next appointment we will reevaluate and quite possibly put her on soy formula.
And that is all for now, got to feed Ellie and try to put her back to bed!
We had to take the lil lady to the doctor today because her eye is just getting really gross. She has clogged tear ducts and apparently the yellow gooey discharge that she has been having is abnormal for a baby this age. So now we have to take her to the eye doctor next week to have it checked out-not excited at all.
On a good note she is gaining weight well-which for some reason is something the doctor seems so concerned about-she is 10 lbs 8 ounces! Little chunky monkey:) and everything else looks good so no physical abnormalities which is something he was also looking for since she has other issues like...
THROW UP! and lots of it-she finally threw up on Jeff for once today! But anywho-there are several possibilities as to why she is throwing up
1) she has acid reflux (this one is kinda iffy since she doesn't throw up after every meal nor does she even spit up after every meal)
2)she is too full-she doesn't poop as much on formula
3)she is developing a milk protein allergy
So we'll have to wait and see how this develops-at her next appointment we will reevaluate and quite possibly put her on soy formula.
And that is all for now, got to feed Ellie and try to put her back to bed!
Monday, March 14, 2011
A glimpse into my day...
Wake up-6:30 or 7:30 depends on how our night went. Ellie generally wakes up every 3 hours so depending on when she goes to sleep we wake up at various hours. Sometimes she is super fussy so bedtime gets pushed therefore wake up time moves as well.
-Change her diaper
-Feed her
-Wash her face-she has baby acne so we try to keep her face as clean as possible (not washed with soap just plain old water)
-Clean out her goopy eye and rub her tear ducts-she has blocked tear ducts so we are trying to open them up. This happens often in newborns however it usually clears up around week 3 (she'll be 6 weeks on Wednesday).
-Wash bottles
-Play time until about 9:30-Ellie is generally happiest in the morning so I try to fit in as much play time as possible which includes tummy time
-Eat again
-Change diaper
-Change clothes
-More play time if she isn't fussy until about 10:30 or 11:00
-Nap time usually takes place around 11:30
-Wake up from nap around 1 ish (again depends when she went down for a nap, if she ate a full bottle etc)
-Eat again
-Change diaper-this is generally when we have a poopy diaper which is SUPER disgusting now that she is a formula babe
-Fussy time starts around 3:45 no matter how good of a day she has had
-From about 4-6 we do a lot of rocking, bouncy chair time, checking diapers, using a pacifier-really anything to make her stop crying
-She eats a couple ounces in between the crying but never a whole bottle until later
-7:00 we are starting to give her a bath around this time everyday
-After bath we rub her down w/lotion this usually calms her down and she seems to like smelling pretty :)
-7:30 or 8 supper time
-8-9 more fussing, so we sing some songs or read a book...she likes singing and walking (or as we call "the happy dance")
-Wash and prepare bottles for night time
-9:30 ish it is lights out-again sometimes it is earlier around 9 and it has been as late as 10:45 some nights
Now here is where Ellie is completely inconsistent. She has slept for 5 or 5 and a half hours before so she doesn't wake up until around 2-those are my most favorite nights. BUT for the majority of the time she wakes up like clockwork every 2 to 3 hours depending on how much of her bottle she eats. It is VERY hard to keep her awake at night to finish the bottle without inducing another episode of fussiness, so sometimes I'd rather sleep for just 2 hours than endure 2 hours of crying!!
And then we wake up and do it all over again!
-Change her diaper
-Feed her
-Wash her face-she has baby acne so we try to keep her face as clean as possible (not washed with soap just plain old water)
-Clean out her goopy eye and rub her tear ducts-she has blocked tear ducts so we are trying to open them up. This happens often in newborns however it usually clears up around week 3 (she'll be 6 weeks on Wednesday).
-Wash bottles
-Play time until about 9:30-Ellie is generally happiest in the morning so I try to fit in as much play time as possible which includes tummy time
-Eat again
-Change diaper
-Change clothes
-More play time if she isn't fussy until about 10:30 or 11:00
-Nap time usually takes place around 11:30
-Wake up from nap around 1 ish (again depends when she went down for a nap, if she ate a full bottle etc)
-Eat again
-Change diaper-this is generally when we have a poopy diaper which is SUPER disgusting now that she is a formula babe
-Fussy time starts around 3:45 no matter how good of a day she has had
-From about 4-6 we do a lot of rocking, bouncy chair time, checking diapers, using a pacifier-really anything to make her stop crying
-She eats a couple ounces in between the crying but never a whole bottle until later
-7:00 we are starting to give her a bath around this time everyday
-After bath we rub her down w/lotion this usually calms her down and she seems to like smelling pretty :)
-7:30 or 8 supper time
-8-9 more fussing, so we sing some songs or read a book...she likes singing and walking (or as we call "the happy dance")
-Wash and prepare bottles for night time
-9:30 ish it is lights out-again sometimes it is earlier around 9 and it has been as late as 10:45 some nights
Now here is where Ellie is completely inconsistent. She has slept for 5 or 5 and a half hours before so she doesn't wake up until around 2-those are my most favorite nights. BUT for the majority of the time she wakes up like clockwork every 2 to 3 hours depending on how much of her bottle she eats. It is VERY hard to keep her awake at night to finish the bottle without inducing another episode of fussiness, so sometimes I'd rather sleep for just 2 hours than endure 2 hours of crying!!
And then we wake up and do it all over again!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Video of Ellie on a Saturday morning :)
So after a pretty terrible night of little to no sleep we finally went back to bed this morning and slept until 10:30-it was wonderful! Then Ellie threw up her whole bottle-it even came out her nose!! GROSS!!! But she doesn't seem to be too affected by it all...just check out the video (or bideo as Brady would say, although he is getting better)
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