Another fabulous night! We went to bed (and when I say we, I mean that Makena and I went into the bedroom and Pam slept on the couch...it's still too hard for Pam to sleep well enough to be with us since Makena is so squirmy sometimes) at around 10:30, and at 11pm I turned off the TV and rolled over to sleep. Makena was still awake, but sleepy. She was wrapped up in a swaddle blanket and in her sleep positioner. At 4am I woke up and was just laying in bed and then I remembered I had a baby and freaked out and turned to look at her. She was still totally asleep, (and yes, I had to watch her chest rise and fall a few times to feel better!) so I fell asleep again. Then we both woke up at 6am. I'm in awe.
When we have baby #2 I'm afraid there is no way it can live up to the wonderfulness of this baby!! Can you get so lucky twice in a row?!
I guess we'll have to wait and see...
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Sleep and 1 Month Stats
Makena slept through the night last night!! A full 7 hours!
We went to bed a little after midnight and Pam was going to get up with her for her middle of the night feeding around 3-4 am. A little after 7 am we woke up and Pam asked me why I didn't wake her up for the feeding. And I said "She never woke up!?" We looked at our little girl and she was still fast asleep. She looked a bit blue to me and I had a little panic attack even though we could see/hear she was breathing, but then we poked her and she stirred and was totally fine.
You know how everyone says babies are up all night and you get no sleep? Well we sure got lucky because this baby is a great sleeper! (And yes, we're knocking on wood continually!)
After we woke her up and I fed her, she fell back asleep. Then we went to her Pediatrician appt and she would have slept through the whole thing but I fed her again and her Dr. started examining her so she woke up. Afterwards we drove to SF to get her birth certificate and came back home and she had slept the whole time.
I fed her when we got home and she had some tummy time and lay on her activity mat for a bit and then she fell asleep again. It's crazy to me that she sleeps so well, and it makes me worry when I should just feel glad! She is really such a GOOD baby!!
Her 1 month stats-
Weight 11.4 lbs
Length 23.5 in
On the percentile charts she's doing great, she's a big baby but long and lean, not chubby. We need to figure out what we are doing for vaccinations because at her next appointment in a month we are suppose to give her the first round of shots. Dr. Wally wanted to give her the Hep B one today, since we declined it at birth, but we said we still wanted to hold off.
Sometimes I think researching and wanting to be fully informed is a curse, because there is just SO much conflicting information out there so it's hard to know what to do. I don't really know why, but I just don't feel comfortable following the recommended schedule. It's a gut feeling. As Jackie said, we need to follow our mommy instinct and luckily we get 2!! lol. Right now we are leaning towards spreading out the shots and getting the combo ones seperately, but we'll see what we finally decide.
We also asked her Dr. about what I was assuming was a sacral dimple on her lower back/ upper butt crack. He said it's so mild he wouldn't even consider it one. We noticed on a developmental chart on the wall that around 6 weeks-3 months babies should be starting to follow objects with their eyes...and we said she has been doing that since she was like 2 weeks old so we asked what that was about. She can also lift her head and turn it while holding it up. He said she is just precocious. :) We knew she was a super baby and he agrees!
We went to bed a little after midnight and Pam was going to get up with her for her middle of the night feeding around 3-4 am. A little after 7 am we woke up and Pam asked me why I didn't wake her up for the feeding. And I said "She never woke up!?" We looked at our little girl and she was still fast asleep. She looked a bit blue to me and I had a little panic attack even though we could see/hear she was breathing, but then we poked her and she stirred and was totally fine.
You know how everyone says babies are up all night and you get no sleep? Well we sure got lucky because this baby is a great sleeper! (And yes, we're knocking on wood continually!)
After we woke her up and I fed her, she fell back asleep. Then we went to her Pediatrician appt and she would have slept through the whole thing but I fed her again and her Dr. started examining her so she woke up. Afterwards we drove to SF to get her birth certificate and came back home and she had slept the whole time.
I fed her when we got home and she had some tummy time and lay on her activity mat for a bit and then she fell asleep again. It's crazy to me that she sleeps so well, and it makes me worry when I should just feel glad! She is really such a GOOD baby!!
Her 1 month stats-
Weight 11.4 lbs
Length 23.5 in
On the percentile charts she's doing great, she's a big baby but long and lean, not chubby. We need to figure out what we are doing for vaccinations because at her next appointment in a month we are suppose to give her the first round of shots. Dr. Wally wanted to give her the Hep B one today, since we declined it at birth, but we said we still wanted to hold off.
Sometimes I think researching and wanting to be fully informed is a curse, because there is just SO much conflicting information out there so it's hard to know what to do. I don't really know why, but I just don't feel comfortable following the recommended schedule. It's a gut feeling. As Jackie said, we need to follow our mommy instinct and luckily we get 2!! lol. Right now we are leaning towards spreading out the shots and getting the combo ones seperately, but we'll see what we finally decide.
We also asked her Dr. about what I was assuming was a sacral dimple on her lower back/ upper butt crack. He said it's so mild he wouldn't even consider it one. We noticed on a developmental chart on the wall that around 6 weeks-3 months babies should be starting to follow objects with their eyes...and we said she has been doing that since she was like 2 weeks old so we asked what that was about. She can also lift her head and turn it while holding it up. He said she is just precocious. :) We knew she was a super baby and he agrees!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
1 month!
Makena is now 1 month old. She's outgrown the newborn sleepers from Carter's already. She outgrew newborn sized diapers 2 weeks ago. I can't believe she is getting so big! Granted, she was big to begin with, but I just finished doing the laundry and started a "hand-me-down" pile of clothes that no longer fit. It makes me so sad. It's hard to believe she is growing up, slowly but surely...wasn't I JUST waiting for her to be born?!
And now she's here. And I'm so in love with everything about her. I'm so nervous that I'll blink and she'll be crawling. Or heading off to kindergarten. Or walking down the aisle. I want to remember every little thing and never forget how warm and silky smooth her skin felt the first time I touched her.
And now she's here. And I'm so in love with everything about her. I'm so nervous that I'll blink and she'll be crawling. Or heading off to kindergarten. Or walking down the aisle. I want to remember every little thing and never forget how warm and silky smooth her skin felt the first time I touched her.So I take photos nonstop. One day we'll look back over them and marvel over how little she used to be. But I can't capture the way she feels when she snuggles up against me in the early morning. How she wiggles her way over to me and burries her face in my neck.
Pam woke up and found us like this the other morning. Makena had been sleeping on the blue cloud blanket, but she ended up smushed up next to me. In the photo it looks like she's on top of me, but the angle is funny. We're on the couch, and I was laying on my side facing her. I get so worried she'll suffocate but she just loves to be cuddled close. Even when we're in bed and I have her in the sleep positioner wedge thing she wiggles closer to me. And I love it.
She is hardly ever out of our arms and we wouldn't have it any other way! Pam keeps saying that some day she won't want us to hold her 24/7, so we're getting our fill now. :) Right now they are falling asleep together on the couch. Tonight Pam is going to take the night shift and feed Makena a bottle of milk I pumped this morning so I can get some sleep...but really I'll be waking up and pumping. lol.
I need to go get some snuggles now!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
First entry of the new blog!
Today is Valentines Day, and it's Makena's first holiday!
Last night we went to bed around 10:30. At 3am Makena woke up and Pam gave her a bottle and stayed up with her for a bit and then they fell asleep together on the couch. This is how I found them when I woke up at 7am (covered in leaky milk, btw!)
So adorable! I can't believe I got over 8 hours of sleep last night. I feel great! In general I don't feel sleep deprived because our baby is amazing and usually sleeps for great 4 hour stretches and she doesn't keep us up all night with crying or anyting. Knock on wood...
For Valentines Day I gave Pam a mug with photos of our beautiful baby girl and "Makena loves her Mama!" written on it. She gave me some chocolates and socks, and Makena gave me a big box of nursing pads. lol! Exactly what I needed! Then we went to brunch at The Cheesecake Factory with Kimberly and Susan and a friend of theirs.
Makena was wearing a cute little outfit from her Aunt Diana and the new bib and hat she got as gifts! We walked around the mall for a bit and don't have any plans for the rest of the day. I'm not sure what else to write for now, I just really wanted to get this blog started because I can't believe she's almost a month old and I haven't written anything in 2 weeks! I ordered a copy of the pregnancy blog book, and can't wait to see it. And since I'm done writing in that blog, it was time to get this one up and running!
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