Craziness - my baby girl is already three months old! It seems this past month has brought lots of new things.
Henlie finally made the transition out of preemie diapers into newborns about a week after turning 2 months. We'd tried moving her into them because she was having so many blowouts, but they didn't really fit around the legs, so she still had blowouts. We bought two more packages of preemies, and at the end of those, we tried newborns again, and this time, they worked :)
She can still wear most of her newborn clothes, but she's also been able to wear a couple of 0-3 month clothes, including about the only dress she owns in that size. This is good since we finally went to the full block of church on January 27th. Mostly, it was only going to be Whitney and Connie at primary, so I said I could at least go to help get primary started. Matt took her to Sunday school, which he missed most of because she didn't want to sit.... then he brought her to me for the last hour of church. She did really well. However, can I just say that I dislike 9am church even more with a baby? ugh.
Last time for newborn clothes
I'm pretty proud of this picture :)
We still don't really do tummy time, but she's definitely starting to get her exercise in. When she's being held upright, she'll sit up and balance her head. We've done this some, along with me laying her on my chest at an incline so she'll hold her head up. She's also getting pretty good about holding her head while I pull her into a sitting position. She sometimes even likes to push with her feet, which then I'll let her stand for a few seconds. She thinks this is all great fun.
She is also discovering she has feet. When I was taking her three month pictures, she would look down at her feet and just watch them as she'd kick and such. I'm not certain she knows quite what to do with them, but she is finding them to be rather fascinating :)
Hey, Mom! Look at these!
Henlie's baby book has a page to record her height and weight each month. The doctor told us we could bring her in for a weight check whenever we wanted at no charge (we'll see if the no charge bit is accurate :)) Since we don't own a scale and they are always the ones weighing her anyway, we went in for a weight check on her 3 month birthday. She's up to 7 lbs. 15 oz. That's a full pound heavier than she was at 2 months. However, that still doesn't put her on the growth curve they'd like to see, so we left the office with a new regimen to try. Dr. Fullmer has us adding some formula to her bottles. She's supposed to get about 21 ounces/day, about 3 ounces in 7 feedings. For half of those, he wants her to take a bottle, to which 1/3 scoop of formula is added. In theory, this would increase her caloric intake by 10 percent each day. I felt pretty awful over this, and wasn't fully positive I wanted to try it. Her weight has been the only concern since her birth, but she's healthy and happy. She's alert, growing, and learning. Just not growing according to what statistics dictate she should be. However, I figure we can at least try it this month, and we'll see if it did us much good at her 4 month appointment. Dr. said we could revisit it anyway. He said if it doesn't really make much difference, it's probably just her genetics are on the small side. I tried for a week pumping half of the time I'm home with her, but it hasn't been productive. Not to mention, all I do this way is feed her - pump, make bottle, feed her, burp her, let her top off at the breast because my pumping was less than ideal. Ugh. I gave that up. :) I still work three days a week, and she gets extra calorie bottles whenever she gets a bottle. I'm just not putting for the extra effort to create more bottles for her.
Can you believe my baby is already 1/4 of a year old?
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