First Month

Jaundice has officially been cleared! We are still having some bloody diapers but they have gone down significantly. The doctor says that it is just coincidence that this began the same time we started the vitamins and that we need to start them back up again. I am nervous about that though since she seems to be going back to normal. What happens if I give her the drops and she starts having really bad diapers again and it takes this long for her to again go back to normal? I just don't know, I am apprehensive about it. Well, we celebrated her first month the other weekend. Since we had been through so much already, we figured a small celebration with her grandparents would be nice. We had fun, some of her grandparents have been so busy they haven't had a chance to really spend time with her. It was nice to set aside the day to spend with family. I made cupcakes with homemade butter cream icing and coffee. It was yummy! Looking at the pictures from when she first arrived to now, she has changed so much. It is amazing how quickly they change in such a short period of time. Thursday we went and had her newborn pictures taken from Donna Cummings. I realize this is not typically the time for newborn pics and that you have them done earlier but with her jaundice and so many doctor visits, it was hard to pin down a date and time to get them done and I didn't want her to be all yellow in her pictures. They are posted online right now for a month. We are trying to figure out which ones we want to buy. We have already picked the 3 for her birth announcements. I am so excited to get them! This week she has started sleeping through the night more! We are able to sleep longer and we feel so much better! She is now sleeping 4 1/2 to 5 hours during the night now instead of 2 1/3 or 3. I haven't weighed her recently but the last time we went to the doctor she was 8 lb 12 oz. I am thinking she has to be over 9 lbs now. She is growing in length now too. Not so much in width but her newborn stuff is getting too small and she is starting to wear her 0-3 months clothes. Also interestingly, she decided last Friday to roll over! Of course I wasn't recording and she rolled from her tummy to her back and started laughing. It was so cute! She hasn't done it since then but she has come close. I was amazed.

Newborn:


One Month: