Greta was a month old on Christmas! Time has been just flying by! I can't believe that now she's almost 6 weeks already (on Friday she will be). She is such a little blessing and it's been so fun to see how her big siblings have reacted to a baby. Layla especially has been fun to see in her new big sister role (I realize she was a big sister already, but it's different now seeing her act as a big sis to a baby). Greta has been our most challenging baby so far, but the past couple of days she's been better. Our other kids came home from the hospital understanding how to sleep in their bed. Greta still will cry when you put her in her crib. She now pretty much always goes right back to sleep after she's up in the night, but sometimes still struggles with naps and has been often napping in her swing now b/c she naps better there. We'll work on switching to the bed later:). She also seems to have such tummy issues that she will just scream in the middle of feeding and after feedings will be fine for a bit then just scream like she's really uncomfortable. Layla had some issues with that and then discovered she was allergic to dairy, so I'm hoping that's not the case, but have been cutting back now to see if that makes a difference. The last couple of days now Greta has only had one feeding where she screamed so I don't know if that maybe is helping or if it's just from her getting older?? She was also spitting up more but that's gone down too. I've also switched bottles so maybe that's helped. She was using Dr. Browns which are supposed to be good with air flow, but she can drink out of other ones quicker and so maybe that works better for her tummy. I know tummy issues are very common for newborns and my others had issues too (Gibson had major spitting up issues), but it is sad to see her so miserable and a bit wearing on us to have her crying so much! I called her ped just to see what they'd say and they just offered the normal advice like more tummy time and such and we'll go back to the dr in a few weeks for her 2 month also. Gibs was on Prevacid and Zantac but those didn't really seem to help him, plus now she's not really spitting up too bad.
I wish I knew what she weighed at a month, but will have to wait until her 2 month appointment. She drinks about 3 1/2-4 oz 7 times a day (although recently it's more like 3- 3 1/2 oz which could be why she's not spitting up as much, I realize that if they drink too much is when they spit up, but if they're starving for more, it's hard not to give them more to drink!). Her " breakfast" bottle is normally around 8:30. She then has her "last" bottle anywhere between 9:30 and 11. We're learning that with her whether she eats at 9:30 or 11, she is up at around 2 or 3. I haven't dared test that out any earlier than 9:30, but I know with our other kids too, the earlier they went to bed, the better they slept. It just depends now on the day and how it works out for timing of her last bottle. She's been eating about every 3 hours during the day. She was doing more like every 2 1/2 hours during the day b/c I thought mabye that'd help her sleep better at night, but now she seems to better with every 3 hours. I'm hoping that soon she starts doing longer stretches at night but know it could be worse too! The first couple of weeks, most nights we had to wake her after 6-7 hours and then she started doing anywhere from 3 hour stretches to 5 hour stretches and lately she at least does one 4-5 hour stretch and then a 3-4 hour stretch. Gibs has been up early still though so it often is like I just go back to bed after she eats ast 6/6:30 and then he's up at like 7:15. Today he was up at 7:45, so that is at least a little better!
She just stopped wearing newborn size sleepers so that is sad:(. She's been wearing some 3 month clothes for a couple of weeks (just a little big). She is still wearing NB diapers. It's a little sad now to me to see her outgrow her little clothes knowing it's my last baby at that size:(. I just need to enjoy each stage now while it last!
1 month pics...
Layla thought it was pretty cool having matching outfits:). Having two girls I'm already finding is way too tempting to get them matching things!
Greta has a little room to grow into her jeggings:).
I was just going to get a pic of the girls in their matching outfits, but Gibs wanted to join. Go figure when I want to take his pic, he runs away but when I'm not trying to, he wants to be in it.
We at first found that wrapping her in this thing was helping her sleep, but recently she started not wanting it on and kicking her way out of it, so now she just sleeps in a sleep sack.
Bath time! I don't think this was her first though, second maybe?
And just a pic of the big kids eating breakfast (just dry cereal--I wouldn't trust Gibs with milk on it while at that table). I thought it was funny that they both kind of have the same grin.
Apparently they think they aren't too big for the bouny seats...
People ask me a lot who she looks like and I have no idea. I can never tell. And it's hard to compare her to Layla because Layla at a month still looked very preemie. When Layla wore the clothes that Greta is now wearing, Layla was 4 or 5 months old. A 4/5 month old looks very different than a 1 month old! Here is Greta last week...
And this was the only pic I had of Layla in this same outfit...she was over 5 months here...
I quick found this one of Layla where she has a similar facial expression to Greta. Layla is about 2 1/2 months here and this was Greta last week. I think they look quite different.
And Gibs at just over a month old...
