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Zach: Four Months

Zachy poo is still our little guy. At his four month appt this week, we learned he’s still not quite on the growth charts for weight for his age. Our pediatrician isn’t concerned since he’s gaining weight well & following his own growth curve. Zach now weighs 11lb 7oz {which is almost triple his birth weight}. He did make the chart for height though! At 23.5 inches, he’s around the 15th percentile. Definitely our lil bean pole.

We’ll continue to fortify his pumped breastmilk bottles for daycare with a teaspoon of preemie formula. He’s taking bottles fairly well for daycare. We feel like his reflux is getting better but daycare has laughingly mentioned him being a lil high maintenance {we think due to him taking breaks & needing to be burped multiple times a feeding}. Our breastfeeding relationship has been awesome lately. He’s doing great there.

Zach loves his wubbanub. So much so that we’ve recently bought back ups. So now he has a tiger & a monkey to suck on. You’ll be pressed to find a photo of him where the wubba isn’t close by.

He goes down great around 8-10p & likes to sleep on his side.  Zach’s yet to completely sleep through the night, but for the most part, I’ve gotten to enjoy he & I’s quiet time nursing around 330a. We’ve gotten it down pat: disposable diaper change, nursing, him sitting up/burping while I pump, then both of us back to sleep for another hour or two or three {my dream!}.

Zach is our tummy time champ. With a boppy under him, he’s holding his head & chest up looking around. He likes the bouncy seat, play mat & the little swings at daycare too. But his teachers say & we know that he likes to be held best. And with his gummy tongue out smile or tiny pouty lip & batting those long eyelashes, we will gladly plop him in our laps or next to us in a boppy. Or his favorite is standing & squatting while we hold him up. The doctor was impressed with this development skill of his.

I recently gave up squeezing him into NB clothes & packed those up for his two sets of to-be twin boy friends. He’s now wearing 0-3 clothes well, Carters skinny 3 month fit great & he’s growing into some 3-6 outfits of which onesies can act like shorts too.

We’ve kept Zach in Huggies Natural diapers at night but he wears cloth diapers during the day. Skinny sized AppleCheeks diapers {review to come soon!} & our two Itti Bitti diapers fit our lil guy so well.

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Lucy: Four Months

Miss Lucy girl keeps us on our toes. She loves people & doesn’t like being alone or unwatched. Her ‘chatting’ has reached new levels. It’s hilarious, unless it’s 3a like now & she’s ooohhhing & cooing. But she’s so cute & smiley about her chats that you can’t be annoyed.

I think she’s discovered her fingers within the past week or so. All the sudden, she’s staring at them in addition to shoving them in her mouth. She’s also an occasional thumb sucker as well as enjoying her wubba which she likes but can live without.

Lucy has adjusted to daycare swimmingly. Eating for others? No problem. She takes all of her four ounces bottles. Then coming home & switching back to the boob like the eating champ she is. She’s gotten pretty efficient breastfeeding – ten to twenty minutes. She’s started this thing of spitting up. More after the fact than immediately that we plan to ask her pediatrician about Wed {we asked he called her a Happy Spitter & said no worries}.

Speaking of the pediatrician, at the appointment yesterday, she weighed in at 13lb 11oz & was 24.5 inches long. I believe that’s in the 25-50 percentile for her actual age & more like 50-75% for adjusted age! Because of her on-the-chartness, we no longer have to fortify her bottles. Yay Lucy!

Our baby girl will sleep 6-8 hours straight. Earlier this week, she was exhausted from daycare, fell asleep at 7 & decided 330 am was a good time to get up for the day! But typically she’ll fall asleep on the way home from daycare, nap for a bit in her car seat or swing while I unpack from the day, nurse & hang out for a bit before going to sleep between 8-10p & getting up between 5-730a. I’m quite thankful for this sleeper!

She has fun playing on the play mat {although still not a tummy time fan}, will tolerate a bouncy seat & our infant-to-toddler rockers. Daycare says she likes the excaucer but we haven’t put ours at home together yet. She loves the swing, especially if she can glimpse a view of the TV from it. Girl is a fan of football already. Not sure if its the green grass background or just colors in general but it cracks us up.

Lucy wears mostly size three month clothes with the occasional 0-3 & 3-6 mixed in. I’ve been trying to work in NB dresses as tops/tunics with baby jeans or leggings, but she doesn’t like tight necks over her head.

She’s still in size 1 baby dry disposables for overnights. But cloth diapers all day at daycare {post on this to come!} & evenings & weekends home with us. As of this week, we’re officially calling her as outgrown the XS Thirsties covers. The M Bumgenius AIOs {thanks for letting us borrow Poe} fit her pretty well already even though were still squeezing her in the size 0 kissaluvs.

Happy four months {posted six days late}, baby girl! {updating with photo later I promise}

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Zach: Three Months

Oh Zachy-poo. I thank God for this easy going little guy. He’s content just about anywhere you put him: boppy, rocknplay, bouncy seat, swing, playmat, our arms or just a blanket on the floor. I brought out his tiger wubbanub last week & he has a new love. He cuddles it even if the paci falls out while he’s sleeping.

And speaking of sleeping, he’s cool there too. Happy on us. Good on rocknplay. Likes the packnplay if Lucy’s not in it. And he does well in his crib too- slept their Sun night for 5 hours. He still doesn’t sleep the 7 hour stretches that Lucy will {he usually wakes every 3-4 hours still}, but he did give us 12-6 Mon so maybe its coming soon.

{taken one day late 8/22}

Eating is currently our hard spot with lil Z. He’s hungry & that’s when he’s the most vocal, but he also has silent reflux & some lack-of-poo tummy issues. So every feeding is a toss up. Some days, he’s a breastfeeding champ. He actually does better nipple shieldless than his sister. Other feedings though, he’ll just scream at the boob, but take his reflux meds sneaked in 1oz breastmilk bottle fine. After trying to get out burps with pats, bouncing, walks, if he’s still screaming, I’ll have husband or MIL give him a breastmilk bottle. That’s happened more than I like recently, but I reassure myself knowing he’s getting my milk either way.

But the boy is growing! While still hovering around or a little below the 1 percentile, he’s more than doubled his birth weight & I think around 10-11 lbs now. Zach can fit into some NB clothes still but the pants/sleeves are getting short. The onesie above is the same one Lucy wore in her 3 month photo for comparison. To give him footie room, his sleepers are 0-3 months. He’s still fitting in the extra small & NB cloth diaper covers. But we have him using huggies naturals in size 1 over nights.

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Lucy: Three Months

Our Lucy girl. She’s introduced us to quite a personality this last month. She knows what she wants & isn’t afraid to tell us~ that’s right, she’s gotten quite vocal with coos, cries & screams. She loves to be held & walked. No sitting down & rocking will chill her out. Reading books to her is okay. Bouncy seat is okay but without the vibration. She loves our ceiling (yay 80s popcorn), the fan & mobiles. She will chat away with anything overhead. It’s hilarious & so cute.

She loves the boob, breastfeeding, bottled breast milk, however she can get it. And lots. No worries with her missing a meal. After kinda caring less about the hospital pacis, I gave her a lamb wubbanub last week & she’s a fan. But she knows it’s not mom, so it’ll only pacify her for a bit.

Lucy is wearing 0-3 & 3 month clothing & Carter’s skinny 3 months outfits I have to stretch to get on her. She was in the 25% for all at their last appt but she’s our ‘chubby’ baby. We guestimate that she’s around 12-13 lbs now. She’s wearing size 1 disposables overnight & in cloth diapers during the day. We can still squeeze her precious leg rolls into XS & NB cloth covers but those days are limited.

To follow up on my unfinished Elusive Sleep post, I’ve given myself grace, tried to remove the self given pressure to get her to sleep in her crib. She’s sleeping well in the packnplay usually from 12-7a after fighting sleep from around 9p. We’ll give her boob or bottle around 7a & she will go back to sleep for a bit. She typically wakes up happy with big smiles. This week, she’s done great during the day following a eat, play, nap routine. The naps have been on us, the couch on a boppy or in the rocknplay, but again with me taking off the pressure, I’m just happy that she’s contently sleeping.

Happy three month baby girl!

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Lucy: Two Months

Two months of life for this little girl. My lover of food, we never worry she’s not growing! We’ll know for sure at their two month check up next week, but I’d guess she’s past the 10lb mark.

Lucy has grown out of newborn clothes except for the few dresses that are now bordering on too short. After realizing her legs couldn’t stretch out in NB sleepers, the footless pants had become capris, onesies couldn’t snap, we officially boxed up all of those clothes. {Let me know if you need NB girl clothes, my friends are PG with boys now}

She wears cloth diapers almost exclusively during the day. We’ve been using kissaluv size 0 fitteds {on the second snap still} & a mixture of Thirties smallest covers, Flip covers & Rumparoos new born covers. At night she’s wearing size 1 disposable diapers as of two weekends ago.

She happily shocked us three times this week by sleeping in a five hour stretch from around 1-6a. Fingers crossed she keeps this up. She falls asleep best on us, on our chest. Lucy’s not a huge fan of chillin in the boppy but she’ll tolerate it for a bit. The swing is hit or miss- some days she’s a fan & it’ll lull her to sleep, others she screams after a minute. The baby Einstein mat is a hit. As is postfeeding tummy time- she falls asleep after a minute. Due to tummy time & chillin on us, she has pretty good neck control.

I think due to them being six weeks early, I’m not sure baby center development stats are correct for them yet so I’m not going to list those yet. But she has started cooing a little this week & looking at us as well as following us when we walk past both with head & eyes.