*Weight - 7 lb 6 oz (5th-10th percentile)
*Length - 21 inches (25th-50th percentile)
*Head circumference - 13.5 inches (10th-25th percentile)
*Diaper size - newborn
*Clothing size - newborn and some 0-3 month. She is a very long baby (her weight for length percentile is < 3rd) and some of her newborn clothes are getting tight length-wise. However many of the 0-3 month clothes swim on her in the body. So since it is 100 degrees out on most days, we are opting for onesies and other outfits that are not footed in newborn size. Baby Gap probably fits her the best out of all the brands we have because it is cut long and narrow.
*Eats - Charlotte breastfeeds, on average, every 3 hours. She is eating like a champ and gaining weight well. However, she tends to drink very aggressively at the beginning of her feeds, sometimes causing her to choke (and turn blue ... which is frightening for a first time mom!). In an effort to prevent this, sometimes I pump a little before feeding her to prevent such fast milk letdown, and I pull her off the second she starts to cough or choke (because I have learned she would rather suck than breathe!). Every so often she gets a bottle of pumped milk. We have had trouble with bottles because she drinks too fast and chokes, like when on the breast. The bottle that is currently working the best for us is Dr. Brown's with a preemie nipple. Another issue complicating Charlotte's eating is reflux. When she was about 3 weeks old she began becoming fussy and distressed after feeds and started having large volume spit-ups. The pediatrician has started her on Zantac. It has helped with her distress, but she still spits up a lot. At least once per day she will spit up an entire feed. We have learned to cover ourselves and the furniture at all times, and she lives in bibs or naked with a diaper on. I am also doing more frequent, smaller feedings. As long as she is gaining weight, the pediatrician said that she is just a spitter and it's a nuisance for us, but not hurting her.
*Sleep - Within the past week, Charlotte is finally starting to get her days and nights straight. Prior to this, her eyes would fly open around 11 P.M. after being comatose all day. She can sleep a 4 hours stretch at night, but most of the time she wakes up every 3 hours. This leads to very little sleep by the time she eats and I keep her upright for 30 minutes because of her reflux and spitting up (and often keeping her upright does nothing to prevent the spitting up ... so we will be upright for 30 minutes followed by a spit up, clothing change, and now wide-awake baby). I have usually gotten enough sleep for us to get up for the day between 10 - 11 A.M. For the first two weeks she slept in her bassinet beside my recliner in the living room. Now she sleeps in her bassinet next to our bed. We have the head of her mattress raised because she doesn't do well flat on her back.
*Likes - Baths, car rides, her car seat, the swing, the bouncer, her grape-flavored Zantac (it always makes her smile - even if before I give it to her she is crying and hungry), her pacifier, being held, going for walks in the stroller, staring at faces (new in the past week), being swaddled at night, having her arms by her head, stretching out her body
*Weekly Photo Progression
**This post was written a week ago, so information was relevant for when she was one month old (just took me a while to get photos uploaded!)
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