My sweet Claire is FOUR months old today! She's no longer a newborn and has moved on to 'baby'. She's so cute and I love her smiles and her hand sucking and how she's always fiddling with her feet and toes. She just makes me so happy... and she'd make me even happier if she'd start sleeping through the night. :) She had her 4 month doctor visit today - she weighs just over 12 lbs (20th%) and is 24 inches (50th%) in height. I looked back at old posts to see what my other kids were at this age - Jake was 14.5 lbs and Becca was a little over 10 1/2 lbs. I'm not sure what Emma weighed - I wasn't as good at writing that stuff down back then. :) Anyway, I'm still solely nursing Claire, which I'm happy to do, and hope to do as long as I can manage... but I am constantly paranoid about whether or not Claire is getting enough... ever since my experience nursing Becca 4 years ago, I'm always worried my little ones aren't getting full enough. I pre-emptively jumped the nursing ship with Jake at 3 months old. Hoping to do a little better this time around with my Claire, but I have a feeling that I'm sinking quickly - she just doesn't nurse nearly as long as she used to a month or 2 ago, but she usually finishes up eating with a smile on her face - but I remember thinking that with Becca and it turns out she was gradually dropping off the growth chart and when I decided to start supplementing per doctor orders she would down formula bottles like crazy after I would nurse her. Sigh. Can you tell this has been on my mind lately? :)
I've been getting a little more organized with preschool time for Jake. We do it 3 times a week, while Becca and Emma are both at school. Jake preschool only lasts about 30 minutes... his attention span isn't very long. :) In that 30 minutes, we read a book together, do some sort of learning activity, including 5 minutes doing his sound book, eat a snack and then I make an effort to actually play with my cute boy. How sad is it that I have to plan for playing with Jake in order to make it a part of my day? I just don't get on the floor and play with my kids as much as I should. So, this is a bit of guilt release for me... we've played in the little kitchen (Jake made me a sandwich and a drink), we pretended to be robots (we both wore boxes on our heads), and we played with trains. I have a fun boy! So, we've just been doing pretty random activities for our preschool time together - but maybe at some point it'd be fun to have some themes... and our book, activity and snack could all coordinate. Aw, that'd be cute. :)
The pictures below are actually on a different day... but for some reason I guess we were rockin' the red shirt and overalls theme this week or something. haha.
That's a very nice picture of Claire at the beginning of your post(The others are good too). Wow, she tried cereal! She seems to like it.
ReplyDeleteShe is very awake and alert in these pictures. I've mostly just seen her sleeping. Babies change so fast.
Jake colors like the boys in my old primary classes; scribble, scribble, done.. While the girls chose their colors with care and filled in every bit of their page. Oh well. At least you know he's just a normal little guy.
You're doing a good job.
my baby is tiny, too. she is 91/2 months and only weighs maybe 14.5 pounds. i have been concerned about her getting enough, too. but, she is a happy baby, and i think that f they weren't getting enough, they would be quite a bit fussy. plus, her doctor didn't seem too concerned when i asked him. he said that as long as she is making improvements on the charts, she's good. i started cereal at 5 1/2 months twice a day, and that seemed to help a little. mine eats constantly, but just doesn't gain wait.
ReplyDeleteClaire is so cute! I understand the nursing concern too. Sometimes I just pump and feed Jordan a bottle because he will stay at it longer that way than the other way. I'm constantly worried about my milk supply also. I love the parking lot numbers game. I will have to try it with Ethan.
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