Tenk- How is Lilah?

[h@ppy mama]

I've been thinking about you guys and wondering how she's doing these days Hope all is well!

[Tenk]

Ah, so sweet of you to ask about us!!!

Lilah is doing wonderful!!! At her 2 month check up (can you believe I have a 2 month old already?!?!?!) she weighed in at 8lbs even and 20 inches long. She's still not on the "real baby" charts for height and head but she's close and in the 3rd percentile for weight. She gets more alert every day, she's even smiling now on occasion and stares at us when we talk to her, even turns towards us when she hears us talking.

She's nursing on occasion now, and sleeping superbly, if I do say so myself. She still has the sleeps habits of a newborn or maybe her adjusted age of 4 weeks (since she was 6 weeks early) and sleeps a TON, but more awake periods now too. She's been trying to stay awake for an hour here and there, and in the evenings she's doing from 8p to 9:30 or 10p awake and then sleeping until 5 or 6am. So, she's pretty much sleeping thru the night!!! She does have terrible reflux though and is spitting up or even puking SO much. She has to sleep in a bib and sleeps in a leaning up position in her bouncer seat to help gravity keep some of her milk down. Poor baby, she always smells like spit up and we change her clothes/bib like 6 times a day. Well we change the bib like 10 times a day, BUT we will get through this and she will grow out of it just like Bodie did.

I try and nurse her at least 1 time a day, yesterday from 1p until 7p she nursed ONLY and didn't have a bottle at all!! I'm still pumping all day every day but letting myself sleep thru the night too (trust me I need it!) that way i get between 8 and 12 ounces first thing in the morning when I pump. I have well over 200 ounces in the freezer for her and she's up to 4-5 ounces at each feed now, which would explain the double chin LOL. I just got my camera back and will up load the pics of her soon.

Thanks again for asking about her, she's so sweet!!!

I'm still working through the PPD/PTSD issues I've been having and it seems to get a little easier all the time. I did find out my position at work has been eliminated (sales) and I'll be a full time SAHM very soon. So I enrolled in school for the fall semester to finish up things.

[Tenk]

Teneal & Lilah

Feel free to click through these

[h@ppy mama]

Thank you for the update!! She sounds so precious. I'm glad she's doing well. Way to go on the nursing/pumping situation. You are amazing!!! I'm off to look at the pics now Thanks.

[h@ppy mama]

You are stunning! What a beautiful babe Lilah is. She's so sweet. The rest of your family is really cute too.

PS are you happy about the SAHM thing?

[Starfish11]

that picture is so beautiful! so glad things are going well, tenk. she sounds delicious.