We accidentally left our nice camera at my brother's house this weekend so I had to take this week's picture on my phone.
This one is better with her legs straight out.
Nursing: I feel like we are nursing professionals now. Lillian Latches quickly and easily now and only nurses for about 15 minutes total. She is still a "happy spitter" and the doctor said it is probably mild reflux but since it's not causing her pain or making her fuss then we don't really need to worry about medicine or anything. She eats well and is growing perfectly. We do try to keep her at the 30 degree angle after she eats now for at least 20 minutes or so and we try not to jostle her around much for an hour after she eats.
Awake Time: Since we can't move her around much after she eats it makes it difficult to get her some tummy time during her awake time. We do still do a few minutes toward the end of awake time but not too long because she hates tummy time. Once she starts to get real fussy i roll her to her back so she doesn't get too worked up right before bed. Her total awake time ranges from 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes.
Sleep: Well this last week wasn't the easiest so far. I think the combination of us traveling four days out of the week, her shots, and a growth spurt made it a little more challenging. We left on Friday at 5:30am to head up to Toledo OH for a Kevin's family reunion. That meant being in the car for 10 hours. So she did not sleep well. And with people holding her more during her naps it probably wasn't the best sleep. We tried to stick to the schedule as best we could but i didn't want to be stuck in the hotel room by myself all day either. The problem was mainly during her naps during the day. she would fall asleep fine but then wake up 40 minutes later, be awake for 30 minutes or so then fall back asleep so i would have to wake her up to eat again. She did however start sleeping through the night again while we were traveling. Maybe because she wasn't getting as much sleep during the day. She would wake up around 5ish making noises but if we just left her alone she falls right back to sleep. Or if she starts fussing too much i would get up put her paci back in and pat her for a minute or two and she would be fine.
Schedule: As I said we were a little off schedule due to traveling and being in a different time zone. However because she started sleeping through the night I feel we have the perfect schedule for her now. She eats every 3 hours (I took it down to 3 from 3 1/2 because she was waking up so often) and would wake up around 6-6:30ish so we now start our day around 6:30am, then go 3 hours from there, ending at 9:30pm with her last feeding, no dream feed, so there is a total of 6 feedings and she sleeps until morning. (still sometimes waking up in the middle of the night but after a minute or two she soothes herself back to sleep)
Other Happenings:
-Like I said we did a lot of traveling this weekend. I have two posts to share all the details about that.
-Lillian's hands have found her mouth and she is always sticking her fingers in. even if i am in the middle of feeding her.
-Mommy finally got around to doing Lillian's foot and hand prints in the kit that was given to us as a present. It was harder than I thought to get her hand out of a fist but they turned out pretty good and the ink wiped off nicely.
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