Baby Savannah - 4 Months! (1 week late!)

Weight: We went to the doctor on Friday for your 4 month check up and you are weighing in at 13.7lbs (50% percentile) and 24 inches (75% percentile)!

Medical Issues: Still acid reflux... We tried to decrease your dosage to once a day, but you started spitting up ALL THE TIME again, so we switched back to twice a day and Dr. Brooks said we will keep doing that for another month and try again.

 

Sleep: Still a sleeping champ! You are officially being swaddled with your hands OUT and that is a great thing. When you wake yourself up in the morning, you suck on your hands and put yourself back to sleep. Sweetest thing ever!

Clothes: 0-3 months still! I'm ready for you to move up a size, you have SO many cute clothes! ;-)

Diet: Breastmilk and oatmeal! In the last couple days, we have dropped your 10PM bottle so you are drinking 5 - 5 oz bottles throughout the day and baby oatmeal around 6PM. You LOVE the oatmeal! But BOY is it messy.

Nicknames: "shugs," sissy, baby girl

Baby Gear Love: This last month you have loved everything! Your swing, your activity mat, you still love your DVD's, you love you Baby Snug, and are starting to play with your toys.

Future BFF's!!

Crying: Just when you are hungry or super tired!

Likes: Your fingers! You love sucking on your fingers. You also love being snuggled and held. When I get home from work, if I try to sit you down to clean bottles - you have a fit! Of course, I don't mind that one bit! =) You are very social sweet sis, you love your people!

Milestones: You have so many milestones girl!

-You are rolling both ways (belly to back, and back to belly for almost 3 weeks!)

-sleeping from 8PM-7AM
-you can completely hold yourself up - you will be sitting up on your own in no time

-eating oatmeal

-first beach trip

-celebrating your daddy for his first Father's Day!

-your baby cousin William was born! (you haven't met him YET..)

Postpartum: Thankfully, I have dropped 2 more pounds, so I only have a few more to go to get back to pre baby weight (thank you Lord!)

I have had a really hard time adjusting to being a full-time working mom. I get home from work and only have a couple hours with Savannah before she goes to bed - it makes me so sad! But I have also really enjoyed working.  I'm sure it just takes time to adjust and find a schedule that works for us and we are working on that now! Keeping up with laundry and cleaning the house is a whole other story....

Let's be honest here - I am sick and tired of pumping. I feel like for the last 4 months I have been hooked up to that thing non stop! I have built up almost a 4 week supply in the freezer, but that's not nearly enough. BUT, to spin it in a positive light; I am providing Savannah with the best thing possible, and I am her one and only food source. Not only that, but it is FREE! Formula is EXPENSIVE, shooooo!

XOXO.

Savannah Jane - 3 Months!

 

Weight: I'm guessing around 12 pounds - I think you have really just gotten longer since last month. We go to the doctor in June for your 4 month check up.

Medical Issues: Just the acid reflux, thankfully. We are going to start reducing your medication to see if you've grown out of it.Praying for the best!

Sleep: You sleep SO good baby girl! You get your last bottle at 9:45PM and wake up around 7:30AM. Woo!

Clothes: Still rocking the 0-3 months! Although you have the sweetest 6 month clothes - so what if your clothes are baggy, right? ;)

Visitors: TONS! You got to meet your Nanny for her big birthday celebration, lots of hanging out with your Aunt Tiff and cousins before I had to go back to work, Aunt Megan came in town and we got to celebrate Baby William with two showers. We can't wait for June for him to be here! Halie has come to visit you a bunch and of course you see both sets of your grandparents a lot :)

Diet: Breastmilk still. You take a 5 oz bottle at 7:30A, 10A, 1P, 4P, & 7P and a little 3oz bottle at 9:45P. We are in the process of pushing the 7PM bottle back a little and dropping the 9:45P bottle. My goal is around 4 months old.

 

We've went from 10PM, to 9:45PM and 5 oz bottles to 3 oz so I see us dropping it entirely soon! Thank you Babywise for telling this mama what to do! (and of course my sister in law, my go to person since Savannah Jane was 5 minutes old!)

Baby Gear Love: Activity mat, swing, Baby Einstein DVD, lots of repeats from last month!

Crying: You are the sweetest baby ever! You only cry when your hungry, tired or have a dirty diaper! Everyone goes on and on about how great you are. I hope you stay this sweet forever!

Likes: Eating your entire hands, leg lifts, being swaddled at night, cooing and laughing - you love to laugh! It's the cutest thing EVER!

 

Milestones:

-slept for over 9 hours straight on the 15th of April (and still do, PTL!)

-slept in your crib for the first time Wednesday May 1st

-mama going back to work Wednesday May 8th // you hanging out with Aunt Beth Anne every day

-we celebrated our first Mother's Day with together!! I am so blessed by you sweet girl!

Postpartum: Still battling weight loss - about 8 pounds to go to pre-pregnancy weight and 13 lbs to my goal weight! Also, going back to work has been a HUGE adjustment. I mean I went from spending every minute with my girl for 12 weeks straight to being gone from her until 4:30PM everyday! (She's asleep when I leave for work ;( ) I am so thankful to have had that time with her though!