Well, calling this last month "rough" would be an understatement. We were sick sick sick. Everything from diarrhea, throwing up, double ear infections, runny nose, stuffy nose, strep throat, headaches, fevers, body aches, chills, etc. etc. etc. Do you know what parents do when they are sick? They sleep! Do you know what babies do when they are sick? Cry! The two really just don't mesh all that well. And so we stayed up with Adara at 10pm, 11pm, midnight, 1am, 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, and then went to work. Night after night. We tried the humidifier, we tried propping her up, sucking out snot, giving her antibiotics. She would get better and then get sick again. I am hoping month number 5 will be super healthy.
But you know what? Our babe is one happy little peanut! Throughout it all there were plenty of smiles. AND giggles. She is laughing more than ever. Especially at her puppy who she just can't seem to get over. It almost made getting up at the terrible hours worth it when she would be screaming in pain and then see your face and be grinning ear to ear like, "You came to make me feel better! Thank you!"....or that's at least what I think she was saying...........
Towards the very end of the month Adara seemed to be getting back to normal and our pediatrician suggested starting solids due to her size (large) and the amount of breast milk she was guzzling down. Every single day that I breast feed I pat myself on the back because producing this much milk is super tiring. I read on kellymom.com (the site our lactation consultants told us to trust) that most babies eat anywhere from 19-30 oz of milk per day. Well, Adara is close to 40 oz and I'm sure she would be quite thrilled to get more than that. I wanted to wait until 6 months to start solids but given that she has doubled her birth weight (16 pounds!) and seems very interested in food we started up a baby food making factory in our kitchen. We have large quantities of frozen pureed bags of all sorts of goodness. Pears, butternut squash, peas, avocado, oh my.
Here is the video of A eating her first bite of pureed pears (I love how she keeps looking up at me like I'm crazy and making some mistake by offering her big kid food).
But you know what? Our babe is one happy little peanut! Throughout it all there were plenty of smiles. AND giggles. She is laughing more than ever. Especially at her puppy who she just can't seem to get over. It almost made getting up at the terrible hours worth it when she would be screaming in pain and then see your face and be grinning ear to ear like, "You came to make me feel better! Thank you!"....or that's at least what I think she was saying...........
Towards the very end of the month Adara seemed to be getting back to normal and our pediatrician suggested starting solids due to her size (large) and the amount of breast milk she was guzzling down. Every single day that I breast feed I pat myself on the back because producing this much milk is super tiring. I read on kellymom.com (the site our lactation consultants told us to trust) that most babies eat anywhere from 19-30 oz of milk per day. Well, Adara is close to 40 oz and I'm sure she would be quite thrilled to get more than that. I wanted to wait until 6 months to start solids but given that she has doubled her birth weight (16 pounds!) and seems very interested in food we started up a baby food making factory in our kitchen. We have large quantities of frozen pureed bags of all sorts of goodness. Pears, butternut squash, peas, avocado, oh my.
Here is the video of A eating her first bite of pureed pears (I love how she keeps looking up at me like I'm crazy and making some mistake by offering her big kid food).
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| Here's to your health my big 5-monther! |
