Friday, May 6, 2011

1 Month Old

This outfit along with those kissy cheeks are the reason I've recently started calling Felicity chunky monkey. She's definitely starting to fill out and even has the fat rolls on her thighs to prove it. I love it! And I love kissing those cheeks at least 50 times a day every day. Our motto has been and always will be "chubby babies are cute babies."

Felicity's first month has flown by, and she's doing great. Overall, she's a very content baby and has made having two children easier than I imagined (or maybe my expectations were just more realistic this time around). Her sleeping 23 hours a day only lasted about the first week, but it's fun to have her awake a little more so we can interact with her too. For the last couple of weeks she seems to be in a pattern of having 2-3 days where she sleeps really well during the day and night. Then she'll have a day where she's awake almost all day long only taking mini 5-15 minute naps here and there. This is fine except that she wants to be held more which makes it more of a challenge to get things done. The good thing about those days is that she sleeps really well that night - usually giving me one 4-6 hour stretch before waking to eat.

It's also amazing to see how much she's grown and changed already. She still has a lot of hair, but most of the hair in the front is falling out. She's also starting to look less like Bridget did as a newborn (I've thought that and others have said the same). She does spit up a lot more than Bridget did at this age which isn't my favorite. She also gets the hiccups quite frequently. For the first couple of weeks it was multiple times a day every day, but it's started to lessen to maybe once or twice a day now. She's also started to like bathtime now which is an improvement from her crying all through her sponge baths the first 2 weeks.

I can't wait to see what the next month brings - hopefully her sleeping through the night is one of them.

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