Archive for July, 2010

Sarah is now 6 weeks old

I’m really excited about the 6 week mark. If you haven’t had kids, just know that 6 weeks is a pretty big benchmark. Six weeks is when the mommy should be mostly recovered from a vaginal delivery and can really start exercising and such. I unfortunately won’t have my 6 week appointment until Monday because the doctor that delivered Sarah won’t be in until that day. Six weeks is also when babies start to sleep more and/or you can start sleep training them. Anyway, to me 6 weeks is when you can really start to get your life back or at least figure out what your new life is going to be.

Sarah’s Development

Sleeping: Sarah has been sleeping so well this last week. At the beginning she did 3 consistent 4 hour stretches of sleep. Then we went on the road trip for a night (so that doesn’t count), then she slept 5 hours for two nights in a row and last night she got 6 hours of sleep. Hurray! That is so nice. I love it. She is progressing so nice by herself that I’m hoping it won’t take much intervention before she sleeps through the night, well even more. Hurray (knock on wood so there isn’t a relapse into bad sleeping habits.)

Eating: Sarah started out as only an okay eater. She would latch on, suck a few times and then unlatch so that I was consistently re-latching her throughout the whole feeding. I said okay because at least she would latch on, it just didn’t last very long. Now she can pretty much stay latched. It is so nice. Now I feel like she is actually getting enough to eat, that is if she doesn’t fall asleep. It also cuts the time it takes her to eat down significantly. And her efficiency allows me to be able to do more while she is eating, hurray for multitasking.

Playing: Sarah is very active. She has been active since she came home. She could get on her side a few days after birth. She rolled over at just over 2 weeks old. She is getting better at holding her head up and does so a lot. It’s not perfect or all the time but she does it a lot. She does the crawling motion with her feet when we have tummy time and seems really strong. I predict that she will be an early crawler but you never know. It is fun to watch her be so active and try so hard to be mobile. I’m sure when she is mobile we will wish she wasn’t but it is very fun to watch.

Sentiments:  It is so fun to have our little Sarah. It feels like more than 6 weeks that we have had her, but at the same time I can’t believe we are at the 6 week mark. When she was first born it felt like so far away and now I can’t believe I’m here. I can still say that it doesn’t feel like we have had her forever because I feel like I’m still learning how to be a mommy, but it is much easier. I guess that I will always be learning how to be a mommy though because she will be growing and changing so my mommy skills will have to grow and change with her.

The Highlights

July 6, 2010 We fed Sarah her first bottle

Jared fed Sarah her first bottle. Jared said she took it really easily, unfortunately I hadn’t pumped enough and had to finish off with breastfeeding.

July 9-10, 2010 Sarah’s longest road trip

Sarah went from Provo to Idaho Fall, about 4 hours. She did pretty well we stopped once each way to feed her, but overall it wasn’t a nightmare so I call it a success. To read more on the subject see our previous post.