I fully
intend to blog a monthly update on Miss Aubrey for our own memories to keep
track of milestones, what she likes/dislikes at different ages/etc. BUT…. The first month I was in a blissful and
sleep deprived haze of cuddles, night feedings, and visitors soooo it just
didn’t happen. But it was an awesome
first month J
So she’s not
actually two months quite yet – but we’ve got family coming in for Thanksgiving
then we’re headed out of town next weekend (which I am slightly nervous about…
packing for a baby, eek!) so I figured I’d go ahead and get this one written.
Weight/height/details:
I don’t know exactly because she hasn’t gone to her 2 month appointment just
yet but she’s definitely over 21 inches now and I’m estimating 9 lbs 12 oz
based on weighing her with me on the scale and then weighing myself and
figuring the difference. She’s in her
0-3 month clothes and I may or may not have cried when she no longer fit in my
favorite newborn pajamas.
Milestones: She can grab and hold onto things –
your finger, the items hanging from her play yard, your hair… she’s got a
grip! She’s also kicking like crazy, can
lift her head pretty high during tummy time, and is babbling up a storm which
is SO fun… she’s the best right after she eats in the morning and early
afternoon, just super active and talkative.
OH, and she can smile! Which is
pretty much the most amazing thing ever.
She doesn’t do it all the time yet, it’s sporadic, but we get a least a
couple each day when we’re playing with her.
Sleep:
She is in her crib at night and started giving us a 5-6 hour
stretch. Hallelujah! Very thankful for that as well J
It’s amazing what a full 4.5 consecutive stretch of sleep can do after 7
weeks of 3ish hours at a time. I might
even be able to do basic math again, who knows?
That’s the other reason I couldn’t write a blog for the first month,
there would’ve been crazy grammatical errors and I probably couldn’t formulate
enough sentences because I had baby brain (which is a nice name for stupidity
due to lack of sleep!) So we have a
bedtime routine that I try to begin around 6:30 or 7 that consists of bath, get
on pjs, swaddle her, then feed while I sing to her. She will sometimes fall asleep while nursing,
but has started to stay awake in which case I try to rock her to sleep. We have a noise machine in her room as
well. Once she’s out, I try to put her
in her crib without waking her up, say a prayer if I didn’t already while
rocking her and sneak out of the room.
So the whole process can take anywhere from 45 minutes to and hour or a
little longer just depending on how much she’s slept that day. Then right before I go to sleep, she gets
whats called a “dream feed” which is giving her a bottle I pumped earlier that
day to “top her off” if you will right before we sleep. This was she’s as full as she can be when we
lay down for her longest stretch of sleep.
It’s called a dream feed because you don’t wake her up if at all
possible, just hold her and feed then put her right back down, which is why it’s
easier to do using a bottle. Depending
on how long she sleeps for, I sometimes will bring her in the bed with us in
the early morning (4-5 am) just because she’s too adorable to put back in her
crib at times and she won’t be our baby forever… and because Patrick loves her
with us and I think he’d have her in the bed all night if he had his way J
He can sleep through anything though!
She makes a lot of noise for a little person and I don’t sleep well if
she’s there with us all night!
Okay, that
was a long section, but it took some trial and error and combining of different
sleep methods I’d read about to figure out this routine and it seems to be
working so I wanted to share and also make sure I remember it!
Loves/Hates:
LOVES bath time – although you have to be careful because she HATES
being cold and will try and scoot down into the water as far as she can…
adorable. Also LOVES talking, talking,
talking – shocker J
LOVES being sung to (her favorite songs currently are Somewhere Over the
Rainbow and Silent Night (I guess they’re her favorites, they make her stop
crying the easiest, ha), being held and cuddled, watching me dance/make faces,
and her car seat and going for drives.
She HATES tummy time – you’d think I was torturing her – and sometimes
hates something about the time frame of 5-7PM – the only time of day she’s
fussy if at all… who knows? The verdict
on Sadie is unknown – she’s definitely intrigued by her and starts at her, but
not sure that she loves her in her face.
Sadie loves her though! Every
time we’re playing on the floor, Sadie comes right next her, she gets up with
me during the night to check on her or feed her… it’s pretty awesome.
Okay, that’s
all folks. Hope everyone has a fabulous
holiday weekend, travel safely, and stay warm!
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Thessalonians 5: 16-18
Rejoice always, 17 pray
continually, 18 give
thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
