6 Weeks - Already!

How is it possible that our baby girl is 6 weeks old already?  I know, that's what I was thinking when I was posting that she was a month old.  It's just amazing after having time just drag for so long that it can possibly be going this fast.   It doesn't seem possible.

This week I had my postpartum OB appointment.  I was able to schedule the appointment with the doctor that did our delivery.  She was great.  She just kept gushing over Megan saying how cute she was.  *blush*  I don't know how many babies she's delivered in the last 6 weeks, but she remembered how small she was and how much hair she had.  She even mentioned that she thought her hair was darker when she was born.  Which is totally true.  

As for me, everything is going really well.  Of course I cried happy tears when she asked me how things are going and how we're adjusting to life with a baby.  After all we've been though, how could I be anything less than happy?  Physically, I'm pretty much fully recovered from delivery.  I felt like recovery was fairly easy, but with the delivery I had, there wasn't much to recovery from.  So I guess this means it's time to return to life as usual.  I'm not sure I know exactly what that means, but I do know that it means it's time to start working out again.  We've made arrangements for my parents to watch Megan 2-3 times a week so we can go workout.  Our fitness center has childcare available, but not until the baby is 3 months old.  This will work out well.  Grandma and Grandpa will get their baby fix and we can do something good for us at the same time.  

I'm breast feeding and in the last few weeks I've started pumping.  I don't need a huge freezer stash or anything, but it's nice to have expressed milk available to take if I'm going to be away from home for several hours at a time and of course grandma will need something if she's going to be watching her for a couple of hours at a time.  Luckily Megan has been going back and forth between the real thing and bottle with no problem.  I have to admit, more often that not,  she's getting a bottle lately.   It's just so much easier, so much quicker and most importantly, daddy can feed her too.  Also, with breast feeding, you really have no idea how much they are eating, so this way at least we have some control over what she's getting and can see that she's getting enough.    

In 3 weeks Megan goes back to her doctor again.  This appointment will include her first shots.  Eeeks.  I'm sure it will hurt me more than it'll hurt her.  I tried weighing her on our bathroom scale last week and she was 7lbs 9oz (give or take).  I'm curious to see what her official weight from the doctor's office will be.  She still seems like such a peanut, but she's definitely getting bigger.  Some of her newborn stuff is just starting to get too short in length.  

  

Below is a slideshow from her newborn photo session.  She was only 3 days old here.   I'm so glad we have these pictures from her first few days.  She's looks so peaceful.  Thanks again to Jessica for capturing our little peanut.  Those of you who have the FB My Little Lamb Cradle and Swing might recognize this tune.   

1 Month Old!

This has to have been the quickest passing month I've endured in the last 3 years.  After month after month dragging on, this was a pleasant passing of time.  Actually, I wanted to slow it down a little.   How is it possible that our baby girl is already a month old?
We were lucky to have daddy home for the first 2 weeks.   Just long enough to get settled into some sort of schedule.  Megan has been a pretty good night time sleeper almost from the start.  It wasn't long before she was sleeping 3-4 hours at a time and just the other night slept for a 6.5 hour stretch.  At least daddy isn't going into work like a zombie.  
When we brought Megan home she had dropped from 6lbs 1oz down to 5lbs 8oz.  Our first mission was to plump up that girl!  When we took her in the day after she came home, she was already up an ounce to 5lbs 9oz.  Because they were concerned about her weight, we had a home healthcare nurse come and see us on our 3rd day at home and according to her scale, Megan was up to 5lbs 13oz.   She really seemed to be gaining well after dropping almost 10% from her birthweight.  We didn't go back to the doctor until she was 2 weeks old.   At that time she was up to 6lbs 6.5oz.  I wish we had a way to accurately weigh her here at home.  She still feels like a little peanut, so I'm curious what her weight is now.  We don't go back to the doctor until she's 2 months old.     
As for me, I had a great recovery.  I took Ibuprofen for the first few days, but it was more for the sore muscles that I was getting from using my holding, carrying, lifting muscles.  My poor arms and back!  It's funny how 6 pounds really adds up when you are constantly tending to a new baby.  My follow-up appointment is 2 weeks away.  Oh, and I've lost all but about 12lbs of my pregnancy weight.  The scale hasn't really moved since the first week.  Oh well, that will come.
We're starting to work on tummy time.  She usually does pretty well for about 5 minutes at a time.  So far she only has a few really bright toys that we take out to show her to try to get her attention.  We'll keep working on this in the coming weeks building up the time she spends on her tummy.  
Besides being a stinker about day time naps, and cluster feeding at night, we really have been blessed with an "easy" baby.  She is pretty easy going.  I guess my OB was right when she predicted that a quiet baby inutero would turn out to be an easy baby.  I hope this characteristic stays with her for many years to come.

And now, in honor of her 1 month birthday, some photos.  I have to throw in this 3D u/s picture because it seems to have captured one of her "looks".  When I saw the photo with her mouth open, I felt like I had seen that picture before.  Her hair is getting crazier the longer it gets!