She’s 2 months old!!!!!!! Current mood: happy
OMG! She’s already 2 months old!!!! How time is flying by! Just seems like yesterday we took her home from the hospital! She is growing so much, and gaining so much baby weight it’s too cute. She no longer fits her 0-3 month clothes very well; in fact I haven't even put anything on her lately with that size. She now wears 3-6 months! I am not sure how much she weighs but I am sure we will find out tomorrow when she goes in for her 2 month check up and gets her shots =( I am not looking forward to that. Poor little thing. But until then.. let’s see what new things she has been doing this month!
Well let’s see a month in review. Daddy and Mama are finally getting the hang of this parenting thing. We are sooooo very far from being called experts but we are no longer newbies! We graduated to semi-noobs lol. Adrian finally started going back to work in San Diego, and though he works from home more than he should (according to his job he shouldn't be doing that at all) I have been soloing her more than I ever had before. Things were real shaky at the beginning, I would break down crying ALOT when I couldn’t seem to manage her crying at night. It soon got to a breaking point and fast. My parents came to the rescue! They did visit when they could, but the main rescuing was letting me know it was ok to let her cry if there was nothing else she needed done (ie. feeding, changing, burping, etc) That was the hardest thing I EVER had/have to do is letting herself tire herself out by crying. But to my total amazement it really works. It worked so well that by the third night I let her cry, she stopped doing it!!! Granted there are those odd nights were it does take her a little longer to fall asleep (last night being one of them) but when she actually does fall asleep she goes down for the count! She usually goes down about 8 and doesn’t get up again till 3 to eat! sometimes we had to wake her up because she was sleeping too long past her eating time limit (no more than 8 hours!). So that is definitely a new thing for this month.. her going down to bed in her bassinette at night and sleeping the night. She no longer needs us to walk her constantly or have her sleep with us (though Adrian may disagree with this but I think Daddy just likes to have his little girl sleep on his chest)
As for the day time. Well that is still another story. she is still a handful and what works at night doesn’t work during the day. However, she just recently started taking naps alone in her bassinette during the day. They are usually pretty short though, only lasting an hour at best, but hey its progress.
Another new thing she did this month was, as she becomes more aware of her surroundings and environment, she started holding her rattles and playing more. She loves to shake them around and the noise gets her all excited. Also, I can now lay her on her little play mat and spin this little Mobil above her head. She LOVES to look at it and even talks to it sometimes. The only bad thing is, my arm gets tired from spinning it after awhile and she gets mad when it stops! haha She is learning to make more noises and she talks ALL the time now. Her little baby jibber jabber is sooooo cute! She smiles a lot more now and when you touch her mouth she always smiles (if she’s in a good mood that is haha). She is way more interactive than ever before and I am enjoying it to the max!
We started taking walks for the first time this month as well. Though we only done it a couple of times (due to the weather being to hot lately) she seems to enjoy it , as long as they are short walks. I learned my lesson from the last walk, when it lasts to long and it’s warm outside, she is not a happy camper!
She also took her first trip to San Diego this month! This was the first time she traveled outside of Riverside County and her first real big car ride. She wasn't too thrilled about that, but she got to meet a lot of the Cardoso family including her Great Grandma Estrada!
Her Uncle Jimmy, Auntie Lauren and cousins Tracy and Sarah visited her at the house this month and she was such a good baby. No meltdowns or anything.
She has outgrown wanting to be swaddled and I miss that a lot. She looked so cute every time we bundled her up like a burrito in her green Kaiser blankey. She still sleeps with it, but now she has to have it lightly put on her. If it’s too tucked in, she kicks it off. She is definitely a wiggle worm! She is also slowly out growing her bassinette, if you see pictures of her; she is always all smashed in it. Though it’s still too warm to move her into her own room upstairs (with the crib) we may get her a playpen so she can sleep in that in the meantime.
I am fully recovered from my surgery. I got the green light from my doc. earlier this month to do everything I have done before, ie. exercising, walking, lifting etc. I no longer have pain, but once in a blue mood I get little stabby pains in the surgery area, but it’s rare. I can walk a lot more now but now I am having trouble with my feet. I have flat feet so if I walk a lot without support my feet hurt, and I walk TONS with little Mia during the day (barefoot due to not wearing shoes in the house) and when I am trying to get stuff done. I may go into the doc to see what they say about that.
Breastfeeding.... well I am still nursing but unfortunately with little Mia the eating machine, I can’t keep up with her, and supplementing her has become routine. In fact I seem to supplement her more than nursing now since she now refuses to nurse at times (especially when she’s real hungry). I pump as much as I can so for those times she refuses to nurse so I can still feed her breast milk in her bottle. She is becoming too used to the bottle so I will need to force her to nurse a little bit more aggressive so I don't lose my milk. I can already see my supply dwindling and unfortunately the only way to get it up is for HER to nurse, the pumping does nothing to help that. So we will see how it goes. I am hopefully planning to nurse her to 1 year but we will see... it depends, especially if she teethes early (she is already showing signs!)
So in summary:
Feeding: 4-6 oz
New things: becoming more alert of her surroundings, traveling to SD for the first time, taking walks in her stroller for the first time, sleeping 6 hours straight, sleeping at night, using toys and rattles, no longer wanting to be swaddled, taking naps in her bassinette during the day, smiles when you smile at her and smiles a lot more, jibber jabbers and talks a lot, rubbing her eyes when she’s tired, and grabbing things (once she grabbed her own binky that was above her head and held it, shaking it like a rattle), turns her head while laying down to see things, takes her baths without crying!, "Happy Mia Time" lasts a lot longer now, and she’s drooling soo much... is teething in the near future?!?!
Weight: 11 lbs 12.8 oz (as of 09-12-08)
Goals met from last month?: Well we did meet the goal of weaning her off the nurser and now she’s uses bottles whenever we supplement her. As for getting her to like her bouncer and swing...well that hasn’t happened yet. She still cries a lot when you put her in them =( She likes to be entertained and not placed in one spot alone for too long. Not sure if this will change, but who knows we still got time
Goals for next month: Getting her used to the stroller more by walking her... hopefully make it around the park without her crying. Taking her out to a store. Getting her to like tummy time (she refuses to do it now and cries whenever you put her on her tummy), get her to laugh, get her to take regular naps in the bassinette during the day so we can start working on a daytime routine.
OMG! She’s already 2 months old!!!! How time is flying by! Just seems like yesterday we took her home from the hospital! She is growing so much, and gaining so much baby weight it’s too cute. She no longer fits her 0-3 month clothes very well; in fact I haven't even put anything on her lately with that size. She now wears 3-6 months! I am not sure how much she weighs but I am sure we will find out tomorrow when she goes in for her 2 month check up and gets her shots =( I am not looking forward to that. Poor little thing. But until then.. let’s see what new things she has been doing this month!
Well let’s see a month in review. Daddy and Mama are finally getting the hang of this parenting thing. We are sooooo very far from being called experts but we are no longer newbies! We graduated to semi-noobs lol. Adrian finally started going back to work in San Diego, and though he works from home more than he should (according to his job he shouldn't be doing that at all) I have been soloing her more than I ever had before. Things were real shaky at the beginning, I would break down crying ALOT when I couldn’t seem to manage her crying at night. It soon got to a breaking point and fast. My parents came to the rescue! They did visit when they could, but the main rescuing was letting me know it was ok to let her cry if there was nothing else she needed done (ie. feeding, changing, burping, etc) That was the hardest thing I EVER had/have to do is letting herself tire herself out by crying. But to my total amazement it really works. It worked so well that by the third night I let her cry, she stopped doing it!!! Granted there are those odd nights were it does take her a little longer to fall asleep (last night being one of them) but when she actually does fall asleep she goes down for the count! She usually goes down about 8 and doesn’t get up again till 3 to eat! sometimes we had to wake her up because she was sleeping too long past her eating time limit (no more than 8 hours!). So that is definitely a new thing for this month.. her going down to bed in her bassinette at night and sleeping the night. She no longer needs us to walk her constantly or have her sleep with us (though Adrian may disagree with this but I think Daddy just likes to have his little girl sleep on his chest)
As for the day time. Well that is still another story. she is still a handful and what works at night doesn’t work during the day. However, she just recently started taking naps alone in her bassinette during the day. They are usually pretty short though, only lasting an hour at best, but hey its progress.
Another new thing she did this month was, as she becomes more aware of her surroundings and environment, she started holding her rattles and playing more. She loves to shake them around and the noise gets her all excited. Also, I can now lay her on her little play mat and spin this little Mobil above her head. She LOVES to look at it and even talks to it sometimes. The only bad thing is, my arm gets tired from spinning it after awhile and she gets mad when it stops! haha She is learning to make more noises and she talks ALL the time now. Her little baby jibber jabber is sooooo cute! She smiles a lot more now and when you touch her mouth she always smiles (if she’s in a good mood that is haha). She is way more interactive than ever before and I am enjoying it to the max!
We started taking walks for the first time this month as well. Though we only done it a couple of times (due to the weather being to hot lately) she seems to enjoy it , as long as they are short walks. I learned my lesson from the last walk, when it lasts to long and it’s warm outside, she is not a happy camper!
She also took her first trip to San Diego this month! This was the first time she traveled outside of Riverside County and her first real big car ride. She wasn't too thrilled about that, but she got to meet a lot of the Cardoso family including her Great Grandma Estrada!
Her Uncle Jimmy, Auntie Lauren and cousins Tracy and Sarah visited her at the house this month and she was such a good baby. No meltdowns or anything.
She has outgrown wanting to be swaddled and I miss that a lot. She looked so cute every time we bundled her up like a burrito in her green Kaiser blankey. She still sleeps with it, but now she has to have it lightly put on her. If it’s too tucked in, she kicks it off. She is definitely a wiggle worm! She is also slowly out growing her bassinette, if you see pictures of her; she is always all smashed in it. Though it’s still too warm to move her into her own room upstairs (with the crib) we may get her a playpen so she can sleep in that in the meantime.
I am fully recovered from my surgery. I got the green light from my doc. earlier this month to do everything I have done before, ie. exercising, walking, lifting etc. I no longer have pain, but once in a blue mood I get little stabby pains in the surgery area, but it’s rare. I can walk a lot more now but now I am having trouble with my feet. I have flat feet so if I walk a lot without support my feet hurt, and I walk TONS with little Mia during the day (barefoot due to not wearing shoes in the house) and when I am trying to get stuff done. I may go into the doc to see what they say about that.
Breastfeeding.... well I am still nursing but unfortunately with little Mia the eating machine, I can’t keep up with her, and supplementing her has become routine. In fact I seem to supplement her more than nursing now since she now refuses to nurse at times (especially when she’s real hungry). I pump as much as I can so for those times she refuses to nurse so I can still feed her breast milk in her bottle. She is becoming too used to the bottle so I will need to force her to nurse a little bit more aggressive so I don't lose my milk. I can already see my supply dwindling and unfortunately the only way to get it up is for HER to nurse, the pumping does nothing to help that. So we will see how it goes. I am hopefully planning to nurse her to 1 year but we will see... it depends, especially if she teethes early (she is already showing signs!)
So in summary:
Feeding: 4-6 oz
New things: becoming more alert of her surroundings, traveling to SD for the first time, taking walks in her stroller for the first time, sleeping 6 hours straight, sleeping at night, using toys and rattles, no longer wanting to be swaddled, taking naps in her bassinette during the day, smiles when you smile at her and smiles a lot more, jibber jabbers and talks a lot, rubbing her eyes when she’s tired, and grabbing things (once she grabbed her own binky that was above her head and held it, shaking it like a rattle), turns her head while laying down to see things, takes her baths without crying!, "Happy Mia Time" lasts a lot longer now, and she’s drooling soo much... is teething in the near future?!?!
Weight: 11 lbs 12.8 oz (as of 09-12-08)
Goals met from last month?: Well we did meet the goal of weaning her off the nurser and now she’s uses bottles whenever we supplement her. As for getting her to like her bouncer and swing...well that hasn’t happened yet. She still cries a lot when you put her in them =( She likes to be entertained and not placed in one spot alone for too long. Not sure if this will change, but who knows we still got time
Goals for next month: Getting her used to the stroller more by walking her... hopefully make it around the park without her crying. Taking her out to a store. Getting her to like tummy time (she refuses to do it now and cries whenever you put her on her tummy), get her to laugh, get her to take regular naps in the bassinette during the day so we can start working on a daytime routine.
