Modern Day Knights: Brynn: One Month Old

Saturday, September 27, 2014

Brynn: One Month Old

Brynn Madison

1 month old

July 30, 2014

Brynn's Stats

Weight: birth: 6lbs 13 oz (left hospital @ 6lbs 2oz)

2 weeks (7/15): 7lbs 8oz

3 weeks (7/21): 7lbs 12oz

Month apt (7/28): 8lb 4oz (34%)

Height: 21 inches

Clothing size: newborn

Diaper Size: newborn

Eats: so good. From the beginning she has been a fabulous eater. She has a great latch. She also likes to go 3-4 hours between nursing. However, she does have some random days where she wants to eat every 2 hours. During the night she goes 3-4 hours as well. However one night she ate at 10 and didn’t eat again until 4 am. It was glorious. Also, she has been EBF. Ascher and I struggled so much with nursing so I have been very proud of myself that I’ve been able to exclusively breast feed.

Sleeping patterns:

She is a great sleeper as well. I called the doc in the beginning and asked how long to let her go because she would just sleep and sleep. I had to wake her up to eat every 3 hours. I still have to wake her up but by the end of the month I let her go 4 hours and she normally wakes up somewhere between 3.5 and 4. They told me to continue to wake her up since she does so well at night- keep the routine and feed her good during the day so she will continue to keep it up at night and so far so good.

Routine:

Her routine has been go with the flow. Having a big brother makes her routine a little different than Aschers. Granted, I feed her, change her, she sleeps and repeats the cycle. However, with Ascher sometimes she sleeps in the car, in her swing, in my arms, etc. She has been very flexible up to this point and we are so thankful for that. She hardly ever cries and really didn’t cry until she was about 3 weeks old. She is loud and grunts and makes noises but doesn’t cry. She cries now but maybe once a day if she has gas or waited too long to eat.

Favorites & Little Facts:

...being held

… being close to me- its like she can smell me and wants to be super close and if I nurse laying down and then scoot away from her she scoots over so she is touching me

…her daddy—coos when he picks her up & goes to sleep almost immediately when he holds her close against himself

…her brother- she watches him so closely (granted I have to remind Ascher to be gentle)

…starting to like her wubanub-I didn’t give her a paci until she was 2 weeks old (minus the hospital gave it to her a few times in the nursery)- I wanted to make sure we had nursing down so I gave her my boob anytime she fussed the first two weeks so it has taken some getting used to but now she likes her paci.

…lay on her tummy- doctor was super impressed with how well you hold your head up at your 2 week apt

…lay on her side and sleep

…moans in her sleep while dreaming

~hates getting her diaper changed- one of the few times you will hear her cry is getting her diaper changed

~also not a fan of changing her clothes-

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Holiday- The 4^th of July