I can’t believe it!

Wow...okay so first of all April slept the whole night and I don't mean just 5 hours.... I mean she slept from 11:30 last night to 7:30 this morning. She slept the whole night through. She went to sleep on just 4 oz... so this morning she ate her normal 2 oz and then an hour later she did her 4 oz... and just now she finished drinking a whole 8 oz... I changed the nipple to a meduim nipple and it was like whoa, she went through her first 4 and then I had to make more and I ended up making 8 oz total... I can't believe it. You could see her belly expand by the time she was done. She sure let out some good burps. Man.... This feeding should knock her out for awhile... Enough time for me me to get some stuff donw and eat...which I haven't done yet today.

April sure is growing!!

Posted Date: : Jul 18, 2008 9:38 PM

So, April is 6 weeks and is growing! She's been in size one diapers for a few weeks now and I started using huggies (they were gifts) after using pampers and the huggies are smaller than the pampers ones... so she might be going through the huggies ones faster than the pampers. So she's growing for sure. She is starting to eat 6 ounces more and more. She is starting to really hold her head up. She's making more noises and responding to noises and other things. She is starting to really watch her mobile and follow us with her eyes. She slept through the night last night for the first time in about a week. That was nice. She still loves her bath time. She's sure a strong kicker. She's far from a fussy baby. She only cries when she wakes up and needs to be fed. Which is only every 3-4 hours and thats if she was sleeping. She cries when she has a solid bm and a wet diaper and that's it. She's very calm. She's trying to push herself up off her tummy now. My favorite thing is that when I put her down for naps or bedtime, I don't have to fight with her to get her to go to sleep. She eats and then goes to sleep on her own... they say the sooner you can get them to do that then the better off they are once they get bigger when it comes to sleeping. She always smiles when she starts to fall asleep. She's an angel for sure.

Water Time!

Today I decided to take April in the bath tub. It quite fun. I have to say she liked it. I think that the warm water helped her tummy a bit too. It was kinda fun watching her kick her little legs around in the water. I think it was so much easier to bathe her too. She didn't scream or cry once like she does with the infant tub. Plus I was able to do the skin to skin contact that was recommended to me by many people. Over all it was a fun time.

Last night she slept in her crib the whole night. It was awesome. I can hear her cry just enough to where it doesn't wake Jason up. It's very peaceful and all that goes on is the music from her mobile. The mobile will almost put me to sleep if I sit there long enough listening to it. I love it. She hasn't recognized it visually yet, but the music seems to soothe her so she knows its there to some degree....

Yesterday we had her on the bed for some tummy time. We rolled up a blankie and put it under her tummy and she was able to keep her head up off the bed much better and much longer. She's getting stronger. I can put her on my lap and she'll kick against my tummy and push herself almost off my legs... scared the crap out of me the first time she did it...She's getting better at rolling herself over on her side. She's grown half an inch in a little for a week. Not sure the weight, still have to do that. She's starting to eat more. She did almost 6oz at one feeding yesterday. I'm trying to get her back into being swaddled. For some reason she hates it. She has to have her hands to her face all the time. And she loves kicking.... But thats good...strengthening those legs up. She's cooing alot more now. Usually after she sneezes... but during tummy time also... Things are going good. I'm gonna start my work outs today. I can't wait till I can go shopping and get some new pants! Oh good things...