Nobody reads this anymore, but I’ll jot these stats down anyway. I really DO plan to archive this someday for the girls to read. We had Sarah’s 4-month checkup yesterday and it went well. She didn’t even cry when she got her vaccinations! Tough girl. Her weight is 16 lbs, 8 ounces, which is exactly double her birth weight. That puts her in the 95-97th percentile. Jenna was always at (or above) the 97th, so Sarah’s following in her footsteps. She is 24″ long, which is the 50th percentile, adn her head circumference is 42″. 75th %. Big, healthy girl. With her appetite, I’m not really surprised. She’s been eating about every hour & a half. I guess she’s very efficient because she doesn’t eat for long, though. Still–it’s not too convenient for me to have to nurse her everywhere we go.
Speaking of nursing, I’m seeing definite advantages to bottle feeding. Jay & I tried to go out to dinner last Friday, but we had to cut it short b/c little chunky monkey wouldn’t take a bottle. My mom called (with screaming in the background) and said she absolutely won’t take the bottle, so we headed home. Once I fed her, she was fine. Actually, once I took her, she was fine. I guess she’s got a little attachment thing going on. So we’re trying to mix in a bottle more often, but it seems like so much work. There’s the whole milk supply issue then. I said from the beginning that I wanted to nurse her for 6 months. Now we’re into the 5th, but I went through such hell to get started that I don’t know if I want to stop that soon. We’ll see.
Hmmm. She is not sitting up yet, but she rocks the bumbo like nobody’s business. Whoever invented that thing is a genius. She also likes the bouncy thing (johnny jumper?), and she likes to lay on her back under the arch thing with the mobile to look at. Today, she even fell asleep like that. No crying or anything! I think it’s safe to say we’re FINALLY past the colic. EVERY NIGHT she would scream off & on for hours for the first 3 months and well into the fourth. But now, she usually gets fussy due to being over tired, but she’ll go to sleep around 9. Sometimes she even goes to sleep after we put her in her crib awake! That’s new for us because Jenna never, ever did that. Not until she was almost a year old! She also sleeps on her back–something Jenna never did. We are really lucky because she also sleeps through the night. Ever since she was about 2 months old,she started sleeping 7, 8, 9, sometimes even 10 hours at a stretch! She has been regressing a bit lately, but she’ll still sleep 7 hours at a time. I don’t mind getting up to feed her at 4 or 5 am, as long as she goes back to sleep. That’s not always the case, but usually it is.
Sarah is a drooling machine. She has been into blowing spit bubbles lately and making cute “motor” sounds. I love it. I need to get that on video. But she constantly has a bib on, otherwise her clothes will be soaked. I love “talking” to her. If I say hi or make sounds, she’ll coo back at me. So cute. I love having her around. I never get sick of her. I don’t remember that from before and I’m not sure why. Maybe because we know she’s our last? Even when she’s frustratingly fussy, she’s not as frustrating as Jenna on a good day. Am I allowed to say that? I love Jenna but I can’t handle her 24/7! Still–I miss her when she’s not around. But this post is about Sarah.
I don’t want to take the time to upload pictures now, and in fact there’s never really a good time to do that. But I will. I promise.
