Savannah is 3 Months Old-May 18, 2011

Firsts:

-First Holiday

-First time sleeping in your crib (only lasted about 3 nights)

-First Giggle

-First stomach bug/fever

-First shots :(

-First time Daddy took you out without Momma!

-First time watching Days of our Lives with Momma!!

Stats:

Weight:

Birth: 6lbs 1 Ounce

2 Weeks: 6lb 5ounces
2 Months: Did not get an accurate weight, but around 9pounds
11 Weeks: 11lbs 1ounce (50th percentile)

Length:

Birth: 18 inches

2 Weeks: 19 inches

2 Months: ??

11 Weeks: 23 inches (75th percentile)

Clothes:

-0-3 months

-Some of the 0-3 months clothes are getting to small, this week I want to get all of your 3-6 months clothes put in your closet.

-Still in size 1 diapers, they are fitting real nice.

-You are definitely a long little girl, I have noticed some of your 0-3 months sleepers are the ones that are getting a little too small, just due to your legs and arms being to long! You are growing like a weed sweet girl!

Feeding:

You are still nursing, we very rarely give you a bottle only when I work which is about once a week. You do so well when you need to take a bottle, and I am so thankful for that. You eat about every 3 hours during the day, and about every 3-4 hours at night. I love how it has started taking a lot less time to nurse you, we are down to about 8min on each side. Occasionally you will nurse longer!

Sleep:

Sleep has been quite the challenge for you, we put you in your crib after you had been sick and you slept OK in it for a couple of nights. Then we moved you back into the bassinet in our room since you were getting up every hour or two in the crib. You slept a lot better in the bassinet, but were still getting up every 3-4hours. Naps are all taken in your swing! You take a long nap in the morning, 3 hours sometimes! That's when I either sleep too, or run around like crazy doing housework! Then you take a few shorter naps in the afternoon. We then try to have you bathed by about 7-8pm, then by the time I have your sleeper buttoned you are crying ready for your paci. I wrap you in your blanket and rock you to sleep, but you are almost always sleeping before I even sit down. I try to have you fed before your bath, it seems you go to sleep a lot better that way. Hoping that your sleep will improve in your 3rd month!!

Mother's Day

I had such a wonderful Mother's Day! It was so unreal that I was actually a Momma this year! I felt so unbelievably blessed and thankful for my beautiful daughter and my amazing Hubby!

Thank You Lord!!

Savannah Is 2 Months Old-April 18, 2011

Savannah I cannot believe you are two months old already, the time seems like it has flown by at a much too fast speed!! I feel like we were just anticipating your arrival! So many precious moments have happened since you have arrived. I wish I would have done better at capturing some of them. Your personality is definitely shining through by now, you are my little Princess Girl! You know what you want, and you are sure to let us know! You are smiling so much now, especially after you wake up. The first time you smiled at me I thought my heart would burst with happiness. You looked right up into my eyes and your whole face lit up with the most beautiful smile I have ever seen!! We love every single new thing that you do, and we cannot wait to go through every single day with you and see all the changes that you will make!

Your Daddy and I have spoiled you way too much already but we could care less. You are our little Blessing and we have dedicated all of our time to make you happy these last 2 months and we don't plan on changing that! There are many times that we just look at you and still cannot believe that you are our little baby, our little Daughter. We feel beyond blessed to be able to be your parents!

Savannah's Stats:

Weight

Birth: 6lb 1ounce
2 Weeks: 6lb 5ounces
2 Months: did not get an accurate weight, but around 9pounds

Length

Birth: 18 inches
2 Weeks: 19 inces

2 Months: did not get an accurate measurement

Clothes
0-3 Month fit perfect

Sleep

I feel like we have just started getting a routine in the last 2 weeks. You seem to be out of that newborn stage now where you would sleep ALL the time. I think since you were 2 1/2 weeks early you seemed to sleep at lot more and for a lot longer than most babies, or that might have just been your personality. Your little eyes barely opened at all for the first 2 weeks!

So now you usually go down at night around 8-9pm, but only for at the most an hour. You then seem to be fussy until sometimes midnight or after. Then when you are finally asleep you will sleep until 6-6:30am!! That makes me so happy! That is a huge improvement from you waking up every 2-3 hours to eat, up until about 2 weeks ago!!

After you eat you will always sleep again in the morning for about 2 hours, and also take a nice 2- 3 hour nap in your swing! Then it seems you will take cat naps the rest of the day, until your bath time!

Your sleep schedule has been pretty consistent for the last week, but we have had better and we have had worse nights/days of sleep. You are very unpredictable at times. Your favorite place of all time to sleep is in momma and daddy's arms!!! No questions there!! Your least favorite place to sleep is your crib.

Feeding:

You eat about every 3 hours, and you are so predictable too! As soon as I change your diaper you are ready to eat, no patience either! :) You are doing great with breastfeeding, for a while I don't think you were getting enough milk. So I would offer you formula after your feedings for a while, but now you seem to be satisfied with just breast milk! I am very happy about that.

A Few of your Firsts:

-First Sunday to Church

-First REAL smile

-First time away from Momma

-First time to visit your Daddy at work

-First time out to eat

-First time your Daddy took care you by himself

-First time you had your pictures taken professionally

I feel so blessed to have spent 2 months being your Momma!

Baby Savannah's 1st EASTER

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! We sure did!! I am so behind on my blogging, its sad!! Here are some pictures of our Easter!

I remember all the years past that I felt this huge void on all Holidays when we were going through Infertility. I felt so blessed as we celebrated our 1st Holiday as a family of 3! I had so much to be thankful for this Easter!

Thankful for my wonderful Hubby who stuck with me through all those emotional years of IF. I will say those years were probably just as difficult for him as they were for me. In different ways though, for him it was that his wife was consumed with IF, and left him feeling neglected. Which I regret to this day. For me it was the desire to be a Momma. I regret letting it consume my whole life for the majority of the years were were going though IF. I remember a couple of months before were got pregnant I gave it all to God and felt an amazing peace. I then realized how many years I let slip by consumed with only one thing. Those years I will never be able to get back, but I can now try to make up for them.

I know its easy for me to say these things since I now have my baby girl, but I say these things to encourage others that are struggling as well. I pray the Lord will give you peace!

Thankful for my Saviour who arose from the dead, and paid for all my sins. When I really stop and think of that sacrifice it makes me feel so undeserving. It makes me strive to make Him proud of me, HIS child. Thank you LORD!

Happy BELATED Easter!

On a different note, I have been working on Savannah's 2 Month post for about 3 weeks now!! Its sad I know! In another week I will need to start her 3 Month post!! My little girl has not been all that content since about 3 weeks after she was born. So most days I end up holding her a LOT, which I LOVE, but it does keep me from doing some things, like blogging. Then when she does give me some time to get things done, I'm flying around to get laundry, cooking and household chores done. I have so much to post about her, she had been a lot more content in the last week. So hopefully I can get a few posts done now.

I have got to include that last night was the FIRST night she slept in her crib, and the second night that she slept for over 6 hours straight!! I was so proud of her!! This is the little girl who would not nap for more than 20 minutes in her crib! So you can imagine I was over the moon happy! She had been sleeping in a bassinet in our room, and most of her daytime naps consisted of me holding her or in her swing! One thing I have got done is watch a LOT of TV! HA!!

Hopefully soon her 2 month post will be done!!

Scared Momma

I am trying to make this a quick post so I hope this all makes sense to you.

Last night was one of the scariest nights of my life (my hubby too). I was feeding Savannah and I have just recently started to give her Gri.pe Wa.ter between each side, I offer it to her in a bottle, it is supposed to help with Colic/stomach issues. Well she pulled some of it down the wrong pipe or somehow she choked on it. Now she has done this before but NOT NEARLY this extreme. I immediately saw that this was bad. She could not get her breath at all. We were so stunned, and were trying to help her. Then her arms and body went limp, and she started to foam out of her mouth. I was almost hysterical. My hubby calls 91.1. I flipped her over in my arm and patted her back fairly hard, that seemed to help a little. Then hubby took her and was ready to start CP.R. Before he started she started to cry. We were so happy to hear that. By the time the E.MTs got here she was crying and ready to eat on the other side. WORST NIGHT OF MY LIFE. Every time I think back on it I get that weak feeling back. Praise God she is alright!!

So I guess the point of this post is to ask if anyone has had something like this happen to there infant? Also, if anyone has had any experience with Gri.pe Wa.ter? I am terrified to give it to her again, I don't think I will. It did seem to help with her Col.ic symptoms. I only gave it to her at her night time feedings. We were all almost certain that the foam out of her mouth was from the Gr.ipe W.ater coming back up. Like I said before she has choked before on milk, but was able to get her breath right away. So I am not sure if this was caused by the Gr.ipe W.ater or if it was just a really bad choke that could have been caused by breast milk as well. I would love any feedback!

Savannah's Nursery

I pretty much have Savannah's Nursery complete! I had been working on it a lot the week I went into labor, but it was not quite done yet! So yes, my baby is now 7 weeks old, and I finally have the Nursery done! My days just go by way too fast, and I would much rather be cuddling my sweet baby girl than be working around the house!! She loves to be held and cuddled, I think we have a spoiled little girl already!!

I am 90% happy with how my Nursery turned out! I will point out the one wall that I think needs a little something more, but other than that I am so happy with it!!

I got the Monogram and the Pom Poms off of etsy.

Here is the bow board that I made...you can find that post here. I ended up just piecing together the crib set on my own to save money. I got the crib skirt and bumper pad at Babies R Us. I still don't have a crib comforter, and am not really sure if I even need one. This is the wall that I am just not totally satisfied with, I think her picture is almost too small for all that open space. I guess it will need to do for now!

Now for the long awaited changing center reveal!! Let me just say, it has not let me down!! I purchased the baskets on the top from Babies R Us, and the ones on the bottom from WalMart.com.

Here is a good shot of the lighting. It is operated by touch, and it has 3 different settings of light, the dim one is perfect for those middle of the night changings! The touch pad is that little brass circle on the side.

One thing that I could not do without is the wipes warmer! I would recommend that for any new mom! It just kills me to wipe my little ones bum with a cold wipe!!

This is the table in the entryway of the Nursery, it is all complete except for a picture of her in the frame on the table. It is on its way though!

I hope you have enjoyed her Nursery! We spend lots of time in here! Although she is not sleeping in her crib yet, I have been happy having her in our room in a bassinet. She is not a very good sleeper at nighttime, so I feel like I have hit jackpot when she sleeps in her bassinet for a few hours. I am hoping this will get better soon, then maybe eventually she will sleep in her room!

5 Week Newborn Photos

I finally found the time to post the rest of the Newborn pictures! She was actually 5 weeks old at the time, but I knew my cousin who is a photographer was going to come visit at the end of March. So I just took her 2 weeks pictures myself, then when she came to visit she took the professional pictures! I was so super happy with how they turned out!! It is so crazy how big she looks in these! Shes growing like a weed!! Hopefully soon I can finally post an update on Savannah!

Enjoy the photos!!