Day: July 24, 2012

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Babies Family/Travel

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.

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Babies Family/Travel

Zach: Two Months

Zach, my little guy, is getting not so little. I’d guess he’s more than doubled his 4lb2oz birth weight. I’m looking forward to seeing if he’s jumped up to more than the 1% for weight, height & head at our doctor’s appointment this week.

Zach is now firmly in newborn clothes. He grew out of the preemie clothes length-wise a couple of weeks ago, but now he’s filling out the feet & tummy of the newborn sleepers.

After their one month appointment {at six weeks}, when we learned he was 7lbs, we switched him from the too small preemie disposable diapers into newborn ones {Huggies & Pampers are our favorites}. I also started him with cloth diapers that day. His first cloth was a size one Applecheeks but most days he uses the fitted Kissaluvs with x-small covers.

From the beginning, the NICU nurses were commenting on how strong he was & that hasn’t changed. His head/neck control is getting so good. He also likes to practice standing up. He follows us with his eyes & will sometimes turn his head to follow us. He loves to cuddle & falls asleep on us most of the time & definitely naps best on our arms, chests or laps. Boppy pillows work well for him to hang out or take a lil nap in. He tolerates the swing & likes the play mat pretty well.

He had tons of blond hair on his head & all over his shoulders, arms & back when he was born. We’ve noticed that the body hair is almost gone & he’s now sporting more of a old man mullet {bald on top & thin in the back}. Zach now has a wee double chin & the fabulous arm rolls we’ve been working hard getting him to make.

We {& our pediatrician} diagnosed him with silent reflux a couple weeks after a week of him screaming through feedings & whenever he was laying flat. Thanks to Zantac twice a day {hidden in 15ml of breast milk}, he seems to be feeling so much better. He still has occasional rough feedings but those are less frequent; I think due both to him getting bigger & the meds.