almost 4 months

Lucy is approaching the 4 month mark. It seems like she is changing each day. When I picked her up out of her crib this morning I told her that I was pretty sure she had grown a few inches overnight. She always gives me a big smile when she sees me peer over the side of the crib. Cute yes, but at 4:00 am mommy just wants to go back to bed before the alarm goes off for work. She is such a good little girl at night for me. She generally gets up once around 3 am to nurse. I'm probably up for about an hour total. Once she is done eating I burp her (still not the best burper) and lay her back down. She is generally wide awake and smiling at me when I put her down. I just wrap her up the best I can and lay back down. She babbles to herself until she falls asleep. She has slept through the night two times now. I'm hoping for more of those nights!!

Her little teeth have not popped through yet. They seem to have stopped moving for now. She has a Dr.'s appointment and her next round of vaccines next Friday. I will be anxious to see how much she weighs. I'm guessing between 10 and 11 pounds. She is a little thing yet. It is so exciting to watch her become more aware of the world around her. Last week she rolled from her tummy to her back for the first time. She looked at me after she did it and smiled. Precious. When she is playing with a toy she tries her best to get it in her mouth. Usually she just gets her hand in her mouth instead. She loves it when she is talked and sang to, unless she is trying to nurse or go to sleep. It seems we have a momma's girl on our hands. When Lucy is tired she just wants her mom. When she is in my arms she calms down almost instantly. It makes me feel great, but it also makes it hard on me. Poor Tommy thinks his daughter does not like him. I keep reassuring him that when she is tried she is just soothed by me holding her. With his work schedule he is around her during her fussy time and that really stinks.

We are still cloth diapering on the weekends. I have not been brave enough to transition to it full time. I love the diapers though and it has been going really well. I plan to make the transition in the next few weeks.

I suppose I should go to bed now while the little one is still asleep.

Lucy wants to say hello

Ignore my annoying high pitch voice. Lucy responds well to the high notes. :-)

weekend in cloth

Lucy will be three months old in a week. So far she has stayed in the same size of diapers since she was born. On Friday night I decided that I was going to just go for it and try out cloth for the weekend. I covered her little tush with one of the 24 colorful bumGenius diapers we have. We were actually away from home for the majority of the weekend and I did not have one leak or any other problem with the diapers. My only issue with them currently is that my wee one is just that, a wee little one. She is such a skinny little thing that the diapers are so big on her and I have to wrap them around her waist to the back. They seem a little bulky for now, but overall not too bad. It took a little time to get the hang of putting them because of the wrapping issue, but by today we had it down. I switched back to disposables for tonight and will probably use them the rest of this week. I have been having some issues with my milk supply so my evenings are spent caring for Lucy and trying to pump milk for the next day's bottles. It is taking me several pumpings to get enough for two bottles. Not fun. One night last week I was up pumping at 4 am. Like I said in a previous post though, I'm in it for the long haul and I will not give up on breastfeeding. I have talked with my Dr. and a lactation specialist and I think we have the problem figured out. Hopefully this week will be a little better. All that to say that I feel like I need to focus on that this week and not adjusting to diaper laundry every other night. I can put off other laundry, but stinky diapers can't wait!!

working on a tooth

Tomorrow Lucy will be 11 weeks old. I actually had to just count that up on the calendar because it didn't seem like it could be 11 already. Her most recent development is that she is working on her first tooth! Yep, 2 months old and she is teething. Last weekend she was not herself. I kept telling Tommy that if I didn't know better I would think she was getting a tooth. I didn't think that it could actually be true. She was fussy, drooling A LOT, not wanting to sleep or eat and when she did eat it was for short amount of times. Also, when she eats it started to feel like she has little razor blades in her mouth, yea-ouch. She was born with two little white dots on her lower gum. That is the spot where the tooth seems to be moving. My sister in law was actually the one who felt it and brought it to my attention. Now we are just waiting to see if it actually pokes through or stays like it is for a while. Thank goodness for Aunt Mindi or we would probably still be trying to figure out what is going on with her.

It is just hard to believe that our little girl is already growing up. Almost every day Tommy tells her that she needs to stop growing. I can't wait to see who she becomes but I really want to cherish these cuddly baby moments because I know they will soon be gone.

working for a living

Kimberly took this picture of me and Lucy a couple of weeks ago. I pretty much love it.

I have been back to work for a week now. It was not as horrible as I thought it would be. Lucy adjusted very well and did great at the sitter's. The sitter is pretty much family so that made the transition for me so much easier. I am able to go pick her up on my lunch hour to bring her home to nurse. It cuts my lunch hour way down, but I can't think of a better way to spend it. Actually I wonder what I used to do with all my time!

I think that it helps that I work/live in the same town. She is just a few minutes away if we need each other. :) Our mornings are going fairly well. This morning she wanted to get up around 5am and decided to be extra hungry so I had to nurse her twice before I left for work. That means I'm extra tired tonight and should be sleeping instead of blogging. I just wanted to pop in and say that we are surviving.

Lucy had her 2 month check up on the 10th. She is up to 9lbs 9ozs. The Dr. was happy with her weight gain. She also got her shots that day. I held her and just looked away. She wailed a tiny bit but overall she did very well.

I still need to pump some more tonight to fill up her bottles for tomorrow. Pumping is probably my biggest time issue right now. I feel like my day revolves around feeding my child! I will not give up on nursing though! I'm in it for the long haul. It's what's best for her. My job takes me out of the office a few times a week. I guess I'm going to have to figure out how to pump on the go! It is amazing how much your life changes and you don't even realize it. I would never have imagined that I would be planning my routes based on where I can find a spot to hook myself up to a pump. Ha! Well, I think that is enough booby milk talk for now. Sorry, like I said before, that is pretty much what my day revolves around.

I have some thoughts about being a working mom, but I will save them for another post where I am a little more coherent. I hope everyone is doing well!