One Month

It has been one whole month since we brought little miss Janie home from the hospital. Sometimes she still looks super tiny to me. But then other times I think she has grown so much and looks so big (compared to what she was...)! She seems to be filling out her newborn clothes a little too quickly. I know Nora wore them for about 2 months and I was assuming Janie would too, especially since she was a bit smaller, but Janie sure is putting on the pounds. Or getting taller, faster.

I have no idea how much Janie actually weighs, but I am thinking somewhere around 9 pounds. She is definitely able to fill up her little newborn diapers. Size 1 will be our next order! She is a tall girl, too. That's where we are having the most problems with fit on her newborn sized outfits - length.

Janie Elizabeth, one month old!

Since she is still a new little one, we are only seeing her awake for very short periods of time. It is hard to keep her up even an hour (including her nursing time). I know that she will start to wake up more, but it may be some time before she does I guess.

Things Janie does at one month:

Nurses every 3 hours during the day
Nurses once through the night
Can take a bottle
Uses her pacifier
Sleeps swaddled in the Mamaroo
Sleeps in her own room
Likes to look at ceiling fans
Makes little squeaky sounds
Grasps our fingers (and anything else her hand touches...)
Wears newborn diapers & clothing

Skinny little legs!

We tried the crib out for naps and even one night. She does alright during the day, but we've found that at night it is more of a challenge to get her in the crib. I guess we feel our sleep is too valuable to argue with her in the middle of the night about going to sleep in a new place. We've decided to wait until her sleep patterns are a little more regular and she sleeps a little longer through the night to try it again. I am thinking that next month we will give it another try.

So, for now she is sleeping in her swing at night. She has her hiccups, but she is consistently sleeping in about 5 hour stretches through the night. Last night she did one six hour stretch and it was AWESOME. I am not counting my lucky stars just yet though. So basically, she eats her "dinner" at 6:00-6:30 and then we do bath (a few times a week), pajamas, swaddle, and bed time at 7:00-7:30. I've been going to bed around 9:00 (sometimes a little earlier if I'm being honest!) and she gets up sometime between 10:00-11:00 for a late night snack. Then, it's just one more feeding until the morning. So, not too bad...

Sweet baby girl!