One Month: Still SleepingSusannah's first month has been pretty uneventful...for her. Right now she pretty much just eats...and sleeps...and eats...and sleeps. I even took her 1-month photos while she was mostly sleeping just because it's so rare for her to be awake!
Right now her current schedule is to wake two times at night to eat (3:00 and 6:00) after going to bed sometime between 10:00 and 11:00. She is awake for an hour or two between 9:00 and 11:00, then sometime maybe around 2:00, then not really until after dinner when she has her longest awake stretch between 7:00 and bedtime. This provides us all with a lot of snuggling time. The funny thing is that she's often much noisier when she's sleeping than awake, since she has a tendency to squeak and grunt and groan a lot while sleeping. She fooled me into thinking she was waking up in the night a lot for her first several weeks until I got smart enough to leave her alone for a few minutes when she made all her stretching/groaning noises. She usually just goes back to sleep rather than waking up wanting to eat as I initially thought. |
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We are waiting impatiently to see Susannah really smile, but we've only gotten a few brief glimmers so far. Her personality is so peaceful and placid as of yet that I tend to think once she starts smiling she'll smile a lot, but in the meantime she just looks up at us curiously out of her very blue eyes. It's hard to convey in pictures because it's difficult to catch with a camera, but she has very beautiful dark blue eyes with a little white ring around the pupil. Between that and her delicate features, I think she's probably going to be pretty, but squishy newborns can be tough to predict!
It's a good thing she has that placid personality, too, because she has weathered a lot of bumps and bangs from Abigail's over-enthusiastic attention with very little fuss, though I feel pretty bad for her when I am not successful at warding off bumps in the head and Abigail's tendency to grab Susannah by the hand much too tightly. The other day while I was dozing, Abigail decided to climb over me and into Susannah's co-sleeper where Susannah was peacefully sleeping - I woke up abruptly when Susannah let out a squawk of shock and dismay as Abigail sat on her legs. It's a good thing tiny babies are tougher than they look or I don't know how little siblings would survive.
Susannah is still very tiny, smaller than her pictures convey, though she is growing at a very respectable rate. She has gone from 6 lbs 8 oz (she lost weight the week after birth, like usual) to 9 lbs 6 oz in the last month and has grown another 3 inches to put her at 23 inches long. Her skinny little arms and legs are developing some nice pudgy rolls, though even as she gets fatter I don't think her cheeks are ever going to match Abigail's from this age! I am just starting to put some of her smaller 3-month outfits on her and some of the newborn stuff is getting small, though size 1 diapers are still large on her and she can wear the newborn size comfortably.
All in all, our little peanut is still pretty much a little peanut...though if she keeps sleeping at eating at the rate she is right now, she will get quite plump soon. She definitely enjoys nursing and is getting much more efficient at it, taking only 15 minutes to eat instead of 45 like she used to. She is also definitely sensitive to dairy - the only time she turns into a fussy baby is if I get some dairy or particularly gassy food into my diet, at which point she cries for about a day and a half and doesn't take her usual nice long peaceful naps. I apply gripe water and am thankful that I learned so thoroughly how to avoid dairy with Abigail so I don't have to learn again this time around - it's been much easier for me to switch how I'm eating this time and Susannah gets the benefit of it since I don't make as many mistakes as I did with Abigail.
It's a good thing she has that placid personality, too, because she has weathered a lot of bumps and bangs from Abigail's over-enthusiastic attention with very little fuss, though I feel pretty bad for her when I am not successful at warding off bumps in the head and Abigail's tendency to grab Susannah by the hand much too tightly. The other day while I was dozing, Abigail decided to climb over me and into Susannah's co-sleeper where Susannah was peacefully sleeping - I woke up abruptly when Susannah let out a squawk of shock and dismay as Abigail sat on her legs. It's a good thing tiny babies are tougher than they look or I don't know how little siblings would survive.
Susannah is still very tiny, smaller than her pictures convey, though she is growing at a very respectable rate. She has gone from 6 lbs 8 oz (she lost weight the week after birth, like usual) to 9 lbs 6 oz in the last month and has grown another 3 inches to put her at 23 inches long. Her skinny little arms and legs are developing some nice pudgy rolls, though even as she gets fatter I don't think her cheeks are ever going to match Abigail's from this age! I am just starting to put some of her smaller 3-month outfits on her and some of the newborn stuff is getting small, though size 1 diapers are still large on her and she can wear the newborn size comfortably.
All in all, our little peanut is still pretty much a little peanut...though if she keeps sleeping at eating at the rate she is right now, she will get quite plump soon. She definitely enjoys nursing and is getting much more efficient at it, taking only 15 minutes to eat instead of 45 like she used to. She is also definitely sensitive to dairy - the only time she turns into a fussy baby is if I get some dairy or particularly gassy food into my diet, at which point she cries for about a day and a half and doesn't take her usual nice long peaceful naps. I apply gripe water and am thankful that I learned so thoroughly how to avoid dairy with Abigail so I don't have to learn again this time around - it's been much easier for me to switch how I'm eating this time and Susannah gets the benefit of it since I don't make as many mistakes as I did with Abigail.
