Baby Girl turned 3 weeks old today! I’ve been thinking how she just doesn’t look like a newborn anymore, and realized today why…

I didn’t get a length on her today (though last Monday – 8 days ago – she had grown 3/4″ in 13 days and was 21″ long), but she’s eating and gaining well. From her 7 lbs., 12.8 oz. at birth, she weighed in at 9.5 lbs. on our scales at home today, which measure in 1/2 lb. increments.

The newborn AIO cloth diaper I have hardly wraps around her now, and the newborn prefolds are getting pretty small. At least we’re still in 0-3 month clothes, I’d really be sad if I had to pack up baby clothes already.

We’re seeing the first signs of reflux, but I’m hoping that some digestive enzymes will help with that – spitting up, wet burps, fussiness constantly – it’s so sad… I’ve been on goat’s milk, but did have cheese pizza the other night, along w/ spaghetti sauce Sunday and 4 tacos for dinner last night. Let’s just say she wasn’t happy today!

Nursing is going pretty well. I started block feeding her at 3 days and that really helped w/ overproduction (which leads to reflux). She also woke up a stuffy nose today, poor thing.

I’ll try to get back on later this week w/ a few pics we had taken last week for her 2 week portraits, even if they were two days late.

Little Mommy

What a week it’s been! We started last Tuesday morning in a rush to get out the door since contractions were every couple of minutes, only to arrive at the hospital and have labor stall. Long story short, the birth didn’t go quite like I had hoped, and as a result of a lot of different things, we (I) ended up in the ER early Saturday morning with my blood pressure doubled and my pulse cut in half.

Knowing your pulse drops while sleeping, I was really afraid to go to sleep in fear that I might not wake up – as it was as low as 41.

My normal BP is 100/60, and it had been 80s/ 50s the previous few weeks – so I was even more concerned when my BP was 160s/ 100s. Let’s just throw in some palpitations for good times and you had one bawling Momma late Friday night!

It was a big confusing mess, and no one knew what was happening, they just all kept saying I wouldn’t die from it. Thankfully my BP has lowered itself about 10 points each day and was nearly normal today. My pulse seems content staying in the 50s, which I guess means I’m in good shape and don’t have to exercise??? LOL!

There are many aspects of the past week that still upset me, but I’m so thankful to have such a beautiful little girl to brighten it all up. She’s been hugged, snuggled, and kissed so much that I do believe she knows Mommy well. I’m good with that, because she seemed to favor Daddy a lot more than Mommy in the hospital. 

She loves for me to sing and hum to her, and while sleeping on my shoulder, she’ll wiggle her little nose up into my neck – just to know I’m right there – and then settle back down into her sleep. I’m in love!

It’s late, so I’ll leave you with some 1 week pictures. There might be more added later, so check back…

Little Mommy

For my baby book records – she weighed in at 8 lbs. on our scales tonight, and I’ve lost about 17 lbs. this first week.