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here are her stats.
2 months + 1 week - 11lbs 6oz
1 month - 8lbs 7oz
day 8 - 6lbs 8oz
birth - 6lbs 10oz
sleep
we have seriously established a bedtime routine with gabriella. i talk about it here in this post. i'm happy to say that gabriella is a good sleeper at night. her longest stretch of sleep is always after her bath (4 hrs, once even 5). after that she usually wakes up every 3 hours. throughout the day, she sleeps for about 2.5 to 3 hours at a time. she sleeps in her pack n play by our bed and she naps just about anywhere...on our chest, her rock n play, her pack n play, or on our bed. she has also decided she does not like to be swaddled anymore. her arms are now free when she sleeps.
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| i'm ready for bed now! |
food aka nursing
gabriella eats a lot! at around 7 weeks we introduced the bottle to her once a day, at night. at that time, she took 3-3.5 oz easily. she now downs 4 oz in a blink of an eye, sometimes twice in a 2 hour period. because of her ferocious appetite, i freeze 4 oz bags now when i pump. i consistently pump more or less 12 oz of milk a day on top of breast feeding her so i am more liberal on bottle feeding...which means more alone time for mommy!!! unfortunately i tend to pump the most milk in the middle of the night. so i pump when john feeds her at around 10 pm, then i pump after i breast feed her which ends up to be 3 am-ish. after that i pump once or twice more in the morning after feeding her. then, i don't pump again until 10 pm unless we give her a bottle in the afternoon.
temperament
gabriella continues to be a very good baby. her most alert time of the day is in the morning. we take advantage of this and do tummy time, play with her on her gym mat with her "animal friends", and play music for her. the only time she gets fussy is in the evening when it's close to her bedtime routine. other than that, she's a pretty mellow baby. just thinking of how fussy gabriella gets close to bedtime makes me realize that john and i will have to be home early from now on to start her bedtime routine or at least be in a place where we can start it, like my in-laws house. yikes...home by 8pm...the sacrifices we make as parents ;-) if this isn't proof to illustrate who the new boss is at our house, then i don't know what is.
the blank stares and non focused gazes are no more! we have cooing and occasional smiles, although she has always smiled and giggled when she sleeps. she tracks and turns her head when we move and talk to her. she has pretty good head control, but we're still working on strengthening her legs. she found her hands earlier this month and likes to suck on them...if we let her. we can tell she wants to communicate with us. i can't wait to see what she does next month.
mama update
overall i feel pretty good. i'm still tired which makes me lazy, which means my workouts are nonexistent except for maybe 2 times this month. i could be better with my diet, but when you're home all day in pajamas who really wants to eat healthy. pass me the cookies and chips, lol. despite the occasional indulgences, i've broke the 10lb hurdle! i have 7lbs left to go to get back to my pre-baby weight. i do need to tone and i would like to lose an extra 5lbs.
we are headed to san diego and los angeles tomorrow. once i get back, i told myself that i need to start working out...or at least start doing planks and push ups. when did you start working out post baby?
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