Today we had her 2 week appointment with Dr. V. Overall, she is doing well :) She is now 7 lbs 4 oz, 20 3/4" long and everything we've been worried about is all normal. She is on a different formula to help with spit ups since she will spit up despite keeping her elevated for 20 minutes after feeding. In fact, sometimes she'd spit up an hour afterwards and would wake up from a sound sleep to spit up. The worst was when it came out of her nose at 2 am this morning. I was kinda scary for me and Jill definitely did not like it either! Phil was able to calm her down and get her back to sleep. We have had 3 feedings so far today with the new stuff and so far... not a single drop of spit up :)
We do tummy time every other day for now just because I'm not 100% sure when I need to start it. Plus, I don't really know what else to do with her when she's wide awake. Any advice from mommies?
Here is a short, (3 minutes), video I took this afternoon. I had Jill in her rocker and tried to get her many faces. Please excuse the mommy voice :)
Oh cute video! She looks like Phil, I think.
ReplyDeleteDo you have the book What to Expect the First Year? It talks about stuff like tummy time. I think the goal is to start early so she gets used to it, but do it in short increments, working up to an hour a day. If she's like E, she'll let you know when she's had enough tummy time.
In terms of entertaining her - since everything is so new to her, watching you fold laundry or do the dishes is entertainment enough! Double bonus for you. :)
My pediatrician said start them on tummy time from day one otherwise they will throw fits and not like it later on. Ahhh I have so much to share with you about new mommy hood since I have it all fresh in my mind! I haven't read your blog in a while so I'm catching up right now, but it seems Jill has many of the issue that my Rowan did or does and your post partum feelings are pretty much exactly how I was! I'm going to finish reading and comment on your current post with all my info lol.
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