Kayla turned 7 weeks old on Saturday. The time is seriously flying. We also moved most of our stuff to Aunt Meg's house on Saturday. We purchased a pod for a large portion of our furniture so that when/if we decide to move later on it will be much easier. I am so thankful we have so many wonderful friends and family to help us out so that I could help when I could and take care of Kayla. We are successfully moved in, in large part. Just a little bit of organizing to do. It's amazing to see how much crap you have stored in so little space when you move.
On Sunday, Meg, Kayla and I met Miranda for lunch. It was (as always) nice to get out of the house. It was also very nice to see Miranda. It's fun for me to talk to her because she already has two really adorable little girls and a little guy on the way. All in all it was a busy weekend, but we are happy to be here with Aunt Meg and Samson. Hopefully Justin's commute to and from work won't be too bad...so far so good.
Some Kayla info for this week:
Still not much of a set schedule...however she does seem to eat at more regular intervals and I have been trying to do an eat, play, sleep schedule during the day. Usually the "sleep" portion isn't too long. She eats around 7, 10, 1, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 and then once in the middle of the night. She is still sleeping anywhere from 5-7 hours, and I can't seem to figure out what makes it more like 7 instead of 5 :). She is still so smiley. My favorite part of lunch with Miranda yesterday was when Miranda said, "She's so cute. She smiles with her whole face!" Because it is so true. It makes my heart melt because she just looks SO happy!
We will see how walking Samson with a stroller goes. Aunt Meg did it a couple of times yesterday, I had to teach her how to use the stroller...but that's understandable :). I think she figured out the tricks so we will see. Happy Monday!
We got our photos from Rachel back and they are so cute. I'll be posting them all (260) on my SmugMug page soon.
From "I do" to OMG and everything after...
Showing posts with label weeks. Show all posts
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
6 weeks!
Kayla is 6 weeks old today!
We had our favorite photographer come over and take some photos of us and her today. Hopefully we got some good ones because she was pretty fussy for a large portion of the time Rachel was here. I think we got some good ones of her sleeping with a couple of props but we will see!
So, I've been thinking about what to blog about now that I can't gripe about pregnancy anymore. I was thinking maybe discussing her milestones and things like that might be good but I can't really think of much. Right now, all she does is sleep, eat and poop (and boy does she poop).
Her newest, and really first, milestone is we are getting some real smiles (or what the "experts call" social smiles.) It is so awesome to see and makes all the crying fits worthwhile. She now LOVES bath time. She really hates getting out of the bath but we are working on that too, last night we drained the tub before we took her out and wrapped her in the hooded towel, she didn't seem to be screaming bloody murder like normal. She has recently started blowing bubbles and "talking" more often.
A couple continued frustrations for me and Justin:
1. It seems she is spitting up even more than normal. It doesn't seem to cause her much distress, and I know I probably think it's a lot more than it is, but I'm unsure how she is getting any nutrition at all because it seems she is spitting up everything she is eating.
2. There is still not even a semblance of a schedule. I know I'd like to have some sort of predictability eventually but I'm becoming worried that is never going to happen. Any advice from other moms on how they got their little ones on some sort of schedule would be greatly appreciated. I still just try to feed her and put her down for a nap when I think she is hungry or sleepy respectively and try to play with her when she is alert. We don't really have a set bed time and she sleeps anywhere from 4.5 to 7 hours a night depending on the night. But the bedtime routine (no matter what time) is usually exactly the same. I don't get it and I really hope it started to become more predictable soon.
Stay tuned for new professional photos :) (I am going to right click protect them if I put them on my SmugMug site as a forewarning.)
We had our favorite photographer come over and take some photos of us and her today. Hopefully we got some good ones because she was pretty fussy for a large portion of the time Rachel was here. I think we got some good ones of her sleeping with a couple of props but we will see!
So, I've been thinking about what to blog about now that I can't gripe about pregnancy anymore. I was thinking maybe discussing her milestones and things like that might be good but I can't really think of much. Right now, all she does is sleep, eat and poop (and boy does she poop).
Her newest, and really first, milestone is we are getting some real smiles (or what the "experts call" social smiles.) It is so awesome to see and makes all the crying fits worthwhile. She now LOVES bath time. She really hates getting out of the bath but we are working on that too, last night we drained the tub before we took her out and wrapped her in the hooded towel, she didn't seem to be screaming bloody murder like normal. She has recently started blowing bubbles and "talking" more often.
A couple continued frustrations for me and Justin:
1. It seems she is spitting up even more than normal. It doesn't seem to cause her much distress, and I know I probably think it's a lot more than it is, but I'm unsure how she is getting any nutrition at all because it seems she is spitting up everything she is eating.
2. There is still not even a semblance of a schedule. I know I'd like to have some sort of predictability eventually but I'm becoming worried that is never going to happen. Any advice from other moms on how they got their little ones on some sort of schedule would be greatly appreciated. I still just try to feed her and put her down for a nap when I think she is hungry or sleepy respectively and try to play with her when she is alert. We don't really have a set bed time and she sleeps anywhere from 4.5 to 7 hours a night depending on the night. But the bedtime routine (no matter what time) is usually exactly the same. I don't get it and I really hope it started to become more predictable soon.
Stay tuned for new professional photos :) (I am going to right click protect them if I put them on my SmugMug site as a forewarning.)
Monday, February 7, 2011
2 Weeks Old!
Kayla turned 2 weeks old this weekend. We celebrated with a Packers superbowl win!!! Aunt Meg came down to visit and babysit on Saturday to give Justin and I a little bit of a break. It was nice to have lunch with my husband (and I'm sure he feels much better about almost having his wife back!)
I am starting to feel much better about this mothering thing. On Saturday night, she was up every 2-3 hours to eat, which is abnormal for her as she's been sleeping 4-5 hours a couple of times each night. And yesterday, she seemed to be hungrier than usual. I am hoping she was just going through a growth spurt. We took a family walk yesterday to say hi to the ladies in prenatal yoga and tried to cluster feed her a few times before bed so she would sleep longer. She seemed to be extremely fussy last night during this attempt to cluster feed and she ate about 4 times in 4 hours, BUT she slept for 6+ hours last night, so maybe we'll stick with this.
Today, I am trying to get her on more of a scheduled routine, but we also have her two-week check up with the nurse practitioner/lactation consultant. I need to ask her some things about feeding right now since we have been having a difficult time with one of my nipples (maybe TMI, but I'll try to remember to tell you about the vomiting blood 2 times at 2 and 3 days old.) I also am much more concerned about her continued congestion which I feel is making her very uncomfortable and making it pretty difficult for her to feed and she is having a hard time breathing through her nose.
All-in-all, things are going better and I am very much enjoying her bubbly personality and funny faces. I can't believe she is already two weeks old! Hoping to get some more questions answered today! I am also going to try to make a weekly photo page to take the place of belly shots (although I should continue those but breastfeeding has done wonders for my physical appearance!) Stay tuned!
I am starting to feel much better about this mothering thing. On Saturday night, she was up every 2-3 hours to eat, which is abnormal for her as she's been sleeping 4-5 hours a couple of times each night. And yesterday, she seemed to be hungrier than usual. I am hoping she was just going through a growth spurt. We took a family walk yesterday to say hi to the ladies in prenatal yoga and tried to cluster feed her a few times before bed so she would sleep longer. She seemed to be extremely fussy last night during this attempt to cluster feed and she ate about 4 times in 4 hours, BUT she slept for 6+ hours last night, so maybe we'll stick with this.
Today, I am trying to get her on more of a scheduled routine, but we also have her two-week check up with the nurse practitioner/lactation consultant. I need to ask her some things about feeding right now since we have been having a difficult time with one of my nipples (maybe TMI, but I'll try to remember to tell you about the vomiting blood 2 times at 2 and 3 days old.) I also am much more concerned about her continued congestion which I feel is making her very uncomfortable and making it pretty difficult for her to feed and she is having a hard time breathing through her nose.
All-in-all, things are going better and I am very much enjoying her bubbly personality and funny faces. I can't believe she is already two weeks old! Hoping to get some more questions answered today! I am also going to try to make a weekly photo page to take the place of belly shots (although I should continue those but breastfeeding has done wonders for my physical appearance!) Stay tuned!
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