3 Months!!

 

It really feels like I JUST finished her 2 month post! Time really is starting to fly! This was a big month so I hope I don't forget anything.

She gave us her first laugh! It was for her daddy actually and it was the sweetest thing I have ever heard. We have been trying so hard to hear it again!

She is really interacting with us now and it has been so much fun! She and I talk to eachother alot. I am loving that B is home to play with her. They love eachother so much. He makes up songs for her and invents new games.

  Her sleeping schedule hasnt changed too much. She gets her bath at 6:30 pm and we do the bedtime routine of massage,jammies,lullabies and nursing. She is usually asleep by 7pm.

A big change this month is that she is sleeping in her own room! Her first night was at 11 weeks. I think the transition was much more difficult for me than her. I have a great video monitor that has night vision, so that has helped alot. It was important for me to do that before my hubby got home so we could have our own room again.

Her naps are much shorter than they used to be which makes it much harder for me to get anything done when B is offshore. She usually sleeps for about 30 mins at a time. Sometimes its only 10-15! Aye-yai-yai

She went through her 3 month growth spurt at 12 weeks and hasnt slept through the night since then. It has been quite exhausting. We are back down to waking up at 1:30 and 5:30 so Im hoping she will drop the 1 am feeding soon.

Brandon and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary and actually went on a date! We hired a babysitter for the first time. We were so nervous she would wake up screaming while we were gone. We picked a restaurant close to home to help ease our anxiety. The babysitter told us that she woke up once to have her paci back in her mouth and slept the rest of the time. I think it will still be a long time until we leave her with a sitter when she is awake but this was a very successful first step!

She has been getting much better at her hand/eye coordination. She can put her paci back in her mouth sometimes and she grabbed a toy and put it in her mouth for the first time last week.

A big surprise for me this month is that she has started teething. I thought this had started a few weeks ago because of the crazy amounts of drool and the chomping but I talked myself out of it because I thought she was too young. Well, sure enough, she had a tooth pop through on the back left of her gums. I think that is a pretty odd place for a first tooth so Ive put a call in to her doctor. I wasn't sure how to help with her teething pain but I found that wrapping an ice cube in a burp cloth and letting her chomp away helps her. It makes her mouth all red around the outside though.

She has tried to roll from her back to her tummy a few times but can't quite make it yet. We recorded a few of her attempts and it is so cute. She is getting really great at holding her neck up. She loves to be held over the shoulder now so she can look around. She hates facing me in the infant carrier now and I was so grateful when a friend showed me how I can flip her around. She likes that much better. She still hates her carseat and it worse now that she is more mobile. As soon as I put her in she starts squirming around and pulling her arms out. She likes to sit up straight and the carseat is at an angle. I wish I had as good of posture as she does sometimes! :)

I am not sure exactly how much she weighs but my guesstimate (weighing myself with her on the scale) is somewhere around 13 lbs. We don't have our next appt until 4 months unless the doc wants to see her about her weird tooth. She still wears size 1 diapers. Some 3 month clothing fits but mostly she wears 3-6 months. She wears some 6 months and even a couple 9 months. The sizing of baby clothes really needs some regulation. I am aware that this onsie is huge on her but it was the second all white one we tried and I didn't want to have to torture her by changing it again.

She met the Easter Bunny at our church picnic yesterday and it has hilarious because I got a little emotional about it. Apparently my hormones are still a little wacky. I cry so easily!!

I haven't had any huge weight loss. I finally got below 130 but just barely. I still hover right around that weight. I guess Im getting used to being a little bigger but I still really want to lose the weight. I think if I was the same weight but hadn't just had a baby it wouldn't feel so yuck. The annoying part is that my belly skin is still a little stretched out and super soft. It totally grosses me out. But, I've been told I just need to be a little more patient with myself. Im not going to get upset over it until after 6 months post partum. Recovery takes so much longer than I expected. I will try to update more frequently because I know I have forgotten so much already!