Pictures: Playing in her co sleeper (which stays in the living room), playdate, tummy time and father's day with my mom.
God, I love this little precious angel. She is soooooo funny sometimes. When she is not hurting and crying she is cooing and babbling things like "aahhhhbboooo" and "aahhhhggoooo". So of course I say it back to her and she just cracks up and sticks her tongue out before saying it all over again. She's started eating a lot and she has significant rolls - which I think are adorable. She seriously eats about every hour and a half for at least 30 minutes. Also she starts really stocking up at night around 4 PM and stops about 9 PM. And now she is sleeping about 6 hours - AMAZING! Then she'll wake up and go back down for a couple more. Much better than every 3 hours. She'll be 14 weeks next Tuesday. Two weeks later I am supposed to start solid foods...a really hard decision for me. There is so much conflicting information out there. Some say that you should breastfeed exclusively for the first year. Others say it's perfectly fine to start introducing solids at 4 months. I am throughly confused. Plus she has the collic and reflux so it's scary to consider throwing something other than breast milk in the mix. Then again, it may help her keep more down. Then again, some doctors swear introducing solids before 1 year causes stomach lining damage.....AAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! What do I do??? Also, somewhere around 2 1/2 months she decided she would no longer take a bottle...from ANYONE. Yes, we have tried pretty much every bottle out there except one which we've ordered. So, she is getting harder to get full and keep full and she will only eat from me. This makes me think solids are a good idea. So, any/all advice is appreciated on this subject. Oh yeah, and she won't take a paci still - I am basically her paci but that's okay cause one day I'll wish I still was:o>
We missed the fireworks this year but I could care less. Some think we should have taken her but I got some seriously strong gut feelings telling me other wise.
We've had a couple of play dates and I really enjoyed them. Claire has good and bad days so one was great and the other was great but she stayed plugged in and/or cried the whole time. At least I had some adult conversations though, so it was nice.
We are watching the My Baby Can. Read series so she watches the video twice a day. Supposedly she could be able to read by like 9 months or something super crazy! Anyway, she sits in her bouncy seat and watches it every morning. She just loves it, except when we try to change her to the next level - she cries when they play the new songs. OK, so she likes her structure! She sleeps in the middle of our king size bed in something like a baby recliner. I am seriously afraid of putting her anywhere else. I check her several million times per night to see if she is still breathing.
What else? I can't stand to be away from her for more than about an hour and a half. So far most if not all of my instincts have been correct about her, which is an awesome feeling. I love her so much it literally hurts!
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She is so adorable, congratulations. I Love the nursery walls.
What a nice update C! Claire is clearly doing great with Mama. Its funny how our instincts as mothers get sharpened along the way.
About solids - so with you on that one. Lot of conflicting information. However, due to my supply reasons I was anxious to get him started before a year. Our pediatrician asked us to hold off on solids till 6 months, his neck is much stronger now - she didn't want any swallowing problems.
He spit up major when I mixed the cereal with formula and he doesn't spit up at all with the pumped milk.
I'm introducing it super slow. So far he isn't interested and would much rather just hang out at the boob in the evenings and night. :-)
Claire is beautiful. Nice to read the update - I've missed you! Thanks for your kind words. It's nice to know you are still around and that you and Claire are going so well.
Thanks for the update.
Here is my take on solids from a very pro-breastfeeder with a degree in child development (not that that means I know best just that at least I am educated on the subject)
Solids are a greats source of nutrition and can be a great way to add caloric intake to a child, but it is true that a child doesn't need any other nutrition than BM for the first year. That said I think most pedis and people in general would tell you to start soilds before a year. The question is more like when.
I personally do not beileve children under the age of 6 months should be given soilds, that said we still started about a week before he turned 6 months. My mommy gut just said it was time, and then after a few days of him not wanting it and it being a struggle I gave up for two weeks. When we came back it was like feeding a diffrent child. He now loves to eat!
So my advice would be to follow your gut. If it says start at 4 or 6 months then start then, and if it says to wait longer then do that. All of this is assuming she is growing on target, if she is malnurished my answer would be intirely diffrent.
Hi Candy!
Your mommy experiences sound blissful thus far - I hope to have that one day.
It's wonderful news that things are going better and she is sleeping more.
I have no idea what to tell you in the eating department - it sounds like a real dilemma.
As soon as I stopped my Lovenox, my bruises started going away - it just didn't like me.
Is Claire's hair getting lighter or am I imagining that? She's really beautiful.
Enjoy!!
I'm glad everything's going good! I was wondering about you! I'm about to do an update too!
She is BEAUTIFUL! What a doll! Glad she's sleeping more at night, that must give you some sanity!
As far as solids go, we're not going to start until 6 months. I've read that 4 is the earliest, but really average is 6. I've never heard much later than that because it hinders development skills I guess... We're starting at 6 because they have a milk protein allergy and we're being extra cautious about food allergies...
You've already started my baby can! I've ordered it and it's been sitting here for about a month, but wasn't going to start until month 4, I guess I should bust it out and start reading it to get them started!
I'm so glad things are going well! Keep the pics coming!
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