3 Months

Kylie is now 3 months old and had a major growth spurt during her second month. She is now 13lbs 10oz and 25 and a quarter inches long! She grew 3 inches and gained about a pound and a half last month. She is getting soooo big! She is now in size 2 diapers and we will be phasing out her 0-3 month clothes.

We finally decided to switch pediatricians and I am so glad we did. The new doctor is so patient, taking time to answer all of our questions, and made us feel confident we are doing a great job with our little girl. The office was clean andthe staff was friendly and helpful. I really wish we would have done this a lot sooner!

Kylie is doing great. She consistently sleeps about 7 hours a night. She slept through the whole night for the first time this week, from about 9-6. Of course I woke up at 2 and at 5 to check on her so I didn't get to take advantage of the full night's sleep and she hasn't done it again since. I think she decided to do it once to show me that she can, she just doesn't want to!

Last week was my first week back at work. The first day was hard but we made it. I'm working mostly evenings since Jason works early mornings and Kylie is in bed by the time I get home. I miss her but I feel lucky to have the mornings and early afternoons to spend time with her when she is up and wanting to play. Jason is really getting the hang of taking care of her for so many hours at a time and I think finally realizes that I don't get to just lay around and watch tv all day long. I am also very grateful to have family members here to help us when our schedules overlap so that we don't have to put her in day care yet.

Picture Update

I just realized I haven't posted any pictures this month. So here we go, a picture recap of Kylie's second month.

She smiles all the time

She loves to eat

She makes silly faces

She chews on her hands

She wakes up happy every day

She goes to the beach

She tries to push herself up

She goes to the pool

She likes bathtime

She grows and learns something new every day and we just can't get enough of her!

How?

I was in the waiting room at my doctor office with Kylie and a family walked in with their baby and sat by me. I told them she was almost 3 months, and they told me their baby was just 1 week old. I looked at him bundled up in his car seat, so incredibly tiny, eyes barely open, and then looked at my baby almost filling up her infant seat, smiling at me and looking all around the room and my heart almost broke because in that moment I realized I could hardly remember her ever being that small. How could this happen already? It hasn't even been three months yet! Everyone warns you that this will happen. That time goes by so fast and before you know it your baby is all grown up. I'm getting tears in my eyes just thinking about it and wishing that I could somehow slow time down so that I can have as much time with her as possible. I literally got out my phone in that waiting room and went back through all the pictures on it from when she was just born and studied them. I don't ever want to forget any of this...

Redemption

Kylie totally made it up to us. Last night she slept 11 hours and only woke up once to eat at 3:30!!! Jason said I was sleeping like a rock and I don't doubt that for once second. Now let's hope she keeps this up and she didn't just give us a little taste of something so sweet.

Three

Is the number of hours Kylie slept for last night. THREE! This better be the three month growth spurt coming early because if not I really don't know what I am doing wrong and it is getting very rediculous.

Worst Mom Ever

I earned this award today. So Kylie has been trying to laugh for a while now. Like it looks like she is laughing but nothing comes out. Well this morning I went to get her and she was all smiles as usual and then she totally giggled at me. It was just the cutest thing ever! When she did it again I got out my phone to try to take a video of her to show Jason and I dropped it. And it hit her by the mouth. And immediately her first laughs turned to tears. I felt sooooo bad. Yep. WORST.MOM.EVER!

What happened??

What the heck happened to my baby who was doing so much better with sleeping at night? We have a bedtime routine: bath, swaddle, book & bottle, sleep. And it was working. She would fall right asleep and stay that way for up to 5 or 6 hours. Lately she is falling asleep as usual but then waking up about an hour later. I go in her room and pop the paci back in her mouth and she goes right back to sleep, only for this to happen again 15 minutes later. Sometimes I have to go in there 3-4 times until she stays asleep but other times its like an hour and 10 trips later and she's still up when I finally feed her about 2 extra ounces and then she will finally sleep. So she's pretty much "wasted" those first 2 hours of sleep because the time doesn't seem to reset after all this and she doesn't sleep any longer than she would if she would have just stayed asleep from the beginning. I've tried feeding her more at bedtime, going to sleep earlier, going to sleep later, nothing seems to work though some days are better than others I just can't figure out what the trick is. I do not go into her room if she is just fussing with the hopes that she will fall back asleep but she almost never does on her own. She once slept for 7 whole hours and I totally got spoiled and thought that was a sign of good things to come.

She also does not like to take naps but that is a whole other post!!