Is here!! She's such a sweetheart and we are ridiculously in love with her. I want to get as much info about her down before it leaves my memory, so here is goes:
She is currently 7 weeks old and doing awesome. At the Dr 2 weeks ago, she weighed 10lbs 3oz, so I'm guessing she's close to 11lbs by now. We'll go for her 2 month check up - and shots, no bueno - next week.
She is exclusively breastfed and nurses like a champ. I'm so thankful that we don't have any issues with bf'ing, reflux, colic, dairy, etc! With TR, I gave up cow's milk for a year, but Elaine seems to be doing just fine.
She eats every 3 hours during the day, and has gone up to 7 hours at night! Not consistent, but I'll take it when I get it. That 7 hour stretch usually starts around 7/8pm and goes until 1 or 2, so i'm trying to think about how I can get her to shift it to more like 10-4, but she'll be sleeping through the night eventually, so I'm not worried.
We have since moved to a new house between TR and Elaine, and while Thad slept in his own crib in his room from day one, Elaine has been upstairs with us since she was born. We have an office/nursery off of our bedroom, so it's a pretty perfect set up. I can just walk 5 steps over to her in the middle of the night. I have a feeling she won't be moving downstairs anytime soon. :-)
She can still wear some newborn sized clothes, but quickly out-growing them in to 0-3 months. Girl clothes....so fun! And Thad is getting potty trained (more on that in a different post) so he's wearing little boy underwear, which rivals the cuteness of girl clothes. So we are on cute overload around here lately. :-)
She has fallen into an Eat, Play, Sleep routine pretty naturally. She eats anywhere from 6-7am, up for about an hour/hour and a half, and then down for hour/hour and a half, and then continues that cycle throughout the day. Morning naps are much more predictable than afternoon. In fact, just like pretty much every other kid, the afternoons can be fussy and no fun as she processes all the events of the day. It's tough being a newborn!
Girlfriend HATES her car seat - just like her brother did. But luckily, that's really the only time she will really "whoop it up" as Grandma Dorothy used to say.
She's starting to really look at me and smile lately...which is THE BEST. All in all, we are so in love with our Bunnygirl and can't wait to see what life has in store for her!
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