i should really title this post the eat, sleep, and poop month because pretty much that describes our first month with our little munch.
let's start off with her stats.
1 month - 8lbs 7oz
day 8 - 6lbs 8oz
birth - 6lbs 10oz
as you can see breast milk does a body good. gabriella gained a whole 2 pounds in less than a month. it was solid proof that breast feeding was going just fine.
gabriella was so puffy the first few weeks. her eyes were so swollen she couldn't open them all the way. and her sweet little eyelashes were not yet discovered. you can also see she was quite jaundice.
here, you can see john holding ella near the sunlight to help lower the bilirubin that's causing her jaundice.
it wasn't long until ella's puffiness started to subside and her features started popping out. like her long beautiful eyelashes!
she slept quite a bit and woke up every 3 hours, most of the time on the dot all on her own to eat. when she was going through her growth spurts her feeds increased in frequency to every 2 hours. that was really tough on mommy. but those every 2 hour feeds only lasted a day...thank goodness. other than that, she was a very good baby. once she was fed, burped, and changed, she slept good in her pack n play by our bed at night.
there were moments of wakefulness.
here we have gabriella at her 1 month doctor's appointment. she got her second hepatitis B shot that day and took it like a champ. look how tiny she is!
and this is our "official" 1 month picture of her. we're doing a 12 month photo project to show how much our little munch grows her first year of life.
just in case you were wondering, i thought i'd share with you what was going on with me during that first month. just so you know, i'm in the middle of writing a post about my postpartum experience.
as far as my weight, once i delivered gabriella, i only lost a disappointing 4 lbs. i still looked 6 months pregnant the first 2 weeks. after those first 2 weeks, my weight started to drop drastically. breast feeding helped and i was sweating like a pig when i would sleep. i guess that was the way my body was getting rid of the excess water. before i knew it i had lost 15 lbs of the 25 i had gained throughout my pregnancy. by the end of the first month, my mid section was still flabby and i noticed that my back had gotten wider. i didn't get any stretch marks but my linea negra was still very prominent. one good thing that happened was my skin finally, after a long 9 months of pimples and scarring, started to clear up and my scars started to lighten. do you know the saying, "when you are having a girl, she steals your beauty"? well, i am convinced that was the case with ms. ella. after all, i may be biased, but she is one darn beautiful baby.
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