Tuesday, November 28, 2017


Dear Collins,
At one month old...

  • You weigh 8.2lbs, which is two pounds more than when you were born!
  • You have graduated from premie clothes and are fitting perfectly in newborn sizes.
  • You nurse every 2.5-3 hours during the day for about 30 minutes. You still get very sleepy while nursing so the process often takes 45 minutes because we do a lot of burping and changing diapers to keep you awake.
  • You usually cluster feed in the evenings, eating every hour and a half from 5-9.
  • You don't like to fall asleep for naps or bed at night.
  • The only place you like to nap is in the baby bjorn, as soon as I put you in and walk around the house with you, you fall dead asleep.
  • At night time you often fight going to sleep for an hour (sometimes two), but once you go to sleep you stay asleep! You usually do at least a 5 hour stretch and last night you slept for 7 straight hours!
  • Even when you are fighting sleep you aren't much of a crier, more of a whiner. You will fidget and whine and make random loud noises, but thankfully, you rarely ever full on cry.
  • You use a paci to fall asleep during the day but spit it out after you fall asleep. You don't need it to go back to sleep at night.
  • You sleep in the rock n' play at night time.
  • You HATE your car seat. You cry the whole time you're in it unless your paci is in
  • When we put you by the Christmas tree you lay very still and stare at it. You do the same thing on our bed when I turn the ceiling fan on.
  • You have started making some cooing noises the past couple of days.
  • For the most part we hang out at home because it's easier to manage your long nursing sessions. We've been to church once and you slept through the whole thing (in the baby bjorn, of course).
  • You don't seem to have any major problems with reflux but you are a major spitter upper. You also get hiccups ALL the time while nursing which you don't like and makes it hard to eat.
  • Your brother and sister love you very much! Sometimes too much, they are always in your face.
  • You seem very concerned and confused when you get a bath, but you don't seem to dislike it. You do hate being taken out of the bath, no matter how hot the room is you don't like the change in temperature. You generally only get upset when you are cold.

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