Piccolo's Posts: April 2016

1 month Stats

Weight: On Friday’s weight check he weighed 8 lb. 6 oz. He was born 7lb 14 oz and when we left the hospital he weighed 7 lb 4 oz. We have had a hard time gaining weight (whose child is this??), so we’ve done weight checks every 5 days. We’ll have another on Wednesday so then I’ll update his weight then.
At one month Emi weighed 8lb 12oz so he’s a little smaller.

Length: He was born 21” and at one of the numerous appointments he had grown another half inch.
Emi was born 19.5”, but she felt longer than he does. He stays scrunched up most of the time.

Percentiles: At the weight check before Friday he was in the 17^th percentile for weight. I don’t know about height; we’ll find out at the 2-month appointment.

Eating: This has been a struggle! He eats great every 2.5-3 hours, but according to the pediatrician’s office, he isn’t gaining enough weight. They want babies to gain half an ounce each week. He doesn’t act like he’s starving, but we’ve been supplementing a little to help him gain weight. Breast feeding with Emi was hard from day 1, but with him it’s been easy, so it’s been frustrating to hear that it’s still not enough. He also doesn’t really like the formula. He cries and most feedings he spits it up. I bought a different brand at the store yesterday to see if that helps. So now he’s feeding every 3 hours and then I’m giving him a bottle every other feeding. So most of my day is consumed with some type of milk.

Bedtime: Haha!! When he first came home he was a champ sleeper. Not so much anymore. We usually do a feeding around 8:30-9 and I try to put him down after that and go to bed with him.

Awake: He is spending more and more time awake. He usually feeds, plays for a few minutes or is held and then he’ll take a nap in the swing.

Naps: He’s definitely a napper. Emi was NOT! He does not like to take a nap in the crib or pack-n-play though. He only likes to nap in the swing. :/
He also likes to nap in the car seat. He’ll spend a couple hours there if you’d let him.
I’m going to try this month to get him to take a couple naps in the crib.

Diapers: He’s in newborns. According to the weight, he could wear size 1s, but they swallow him! Whenever he moves up to size ones we’ll be set, because he has a stock pile of size ones and twos.

Clothes: Mostly newborn. Thankfully these are starting to look less baggy. A few 0-3 month onesies fit, but not well.

Favorites: He loves bath time even though our first go around wasn’t great. He inherited Emi’s pink, butterfly play mat and he loves it. He also loves his swing, which is nice because Emi never liked it. He loves to be carried in the baby wear sack. He kinda likes his pacifier. He loves to eat. And of course he loves to be held.

Dislikes: Sleeping in his own bed… :/
He’ll sleep in my bed, but then you have to worry about rolling over on him or sheets in his face. If you put him in his bed he cries, but put him in our bed and he passes out right away.

Latest accomplishment: He’s starting to find his voice. He’s made a few sounds, but then he looks shocked that the noise happened. It’s cute. He has slept in 5-hour stretches, but of course only in my bed.

1 month in Pics

March 11

This is one of my favs!

March 12

March 13 (going home day)

March 16

March 17 (official due date)

March 19

Working on the brainwashing already.

I was going to send out announcements, but I started thinking that all the people I would send them to are on Facebook and see the pics, so why waste the money. Here's the 2 I created though.