Eliza: One Month

It's already been one month since you came home with us from the hospital. I've adjusted to being at home all day, and although I'm bored alot, I have a schedule that I am following and the predictability makes the day go by a little faster.

Although it seems like time is moving slow now, soon she will be a year old, and I'll be wondering where the time went. So each month I am planning to record here everything notible about the past month. Otherwise I know I will forget.

Ellie:
Weight: 8.8 lb
Length: 51 inches

Sleep:

During the day you do not like to sleep, and are often awake until 3pm without a nap. If i try to put you down, you may doze for a few minutes, but alway wake up after a short time crying.

For now, the last bottle of the day is at 8pm and then it's to bed for the night. You've been sleeping until 11 or 12, when I feed you one more time before I go to sleep. You wake up twice in the night to eat at 2am and 5am. Around 7am you get fussy and want to be up for the day, but I'm tired and try to get you to sleep until at least 9am when I will feed you in bed.

Eating:

I've been trying to breast feed but I don't have enough milk. So I've been giving breast milk at the beginning of each feed and let you drink as much as you can, and then offer a bottle to drink until you are full. You were really fussy at night time for a week, so I increased the milk in your bottle and that has helped.

Play:

Today I think I got a real smile from you. I was blowing raspberries and you gave a big smile. I didn't get the first one on camera, but I kept ting until I managed to get one. I've trying playing with rattles too, but you don't seem interested in them yet