2 Month Update

Wow, I can't believe how much Jordan has grown and changed in the last month! She smiles so much and makes cute noises like she is talking to us. It is so amazing I get teary eyed everytime! She is starting to get such personality!
Jordan had her 2 month check-up yesterday. She weighs 12lbs 10oz and is 23 1/2 inches long! So she has gained 4lbs since July 31st and 2 1/2 inches. Amazing! She also had to get her first round of shots. It was so hard to see her in pain, but she only cried for a few minutes, then I fed her and then she slept....ALL DAY! Pretty much all day, she woke up to eat of course but she went longer between feedings than she usually does. But today she is back to her normal self.

She is still sleeping in her bouncy seat, which the doctor says is OK because we are still in survival mode. We are trying to get her to sleep in her bassinet in the bedroom, but that is a work in progress. Starting at 5 or 6 weeks she started to get really fussy in the evenings from about 4/5pm until 11 or 12. The only thing that would calm her down was to put her in the front carrier and walk around the house cleaning and doing stuff. Just in the last 4-5 days she has gotten a lot better! She has started to like using the exercise ball to calm down and she loves rocking in the glider chair in the nursery. She never used to like either of those. She also enjoys hanging out on the changing table. That's where I get most of her smiles out of her!

Brian and I rearranged the nursery last weekend, and I really love how it is set up now. I am about 90% done, just some minor things left to do and organize. I will have it done when I go back to work.

I will be going back to work on October 19th, so I am starting to prepare myself for that. Jordan will be 3 months old that day! It will be tough because I've only been away from her 2 times since she's been born. Once I went grocery shopping for an hour, and Sunday Brian took her to run errands for a couple of hours.

That is mostly what has been going on this past month. We still go to parent-baby class every week. Here are some photos.

The 1st Month

Wow! Everyone always says time flies once you have kids. I've never really understood it until now! It really really does! (It's hard to see, but her onesie says '1 Month').

Let's see...where to start. Jordan's 1st 2 weeks were a bit stressful. She was born during our heat wave and was extremely lethargic and was absolutely impossible to wake up to eat. She lost 10% of her body weight in the 1st 5 days of life, which is the max amount that the nurses/docs want to see. So we had to start supplementing. I pumped breast milk, we would fill a syringe with the milk. The syringe had a teeny tiny tube connected to it which Brian would put on the tip of his finger and insert into Jordan's mouth. He would put his finger on the roof of her mouth to stimulate her sucking reflex which basically forced her to eat. It was such a hard time for us to go through this. I was so emotional and crazy from all the hormones and all I could think was, "I can't feed my own daughter! I'm a horrible mother!" Which I know isn't true but that is how it felt at the time. Brian had a very difficult time as well since he was the one that did the feedings like that, while I held her. We would sit there and hold back our tears while we fed her. We had an appointment with the pediatrician when Jordan was a week old to do a weight check and she still wasn't gaining enough. The nurse suggested we find family that has AC in the house, or even stay in a hotel for a few days until the heat wave passed. We are so lucky and grateful for my sister Beth and her husband Darryl. They brought over an AC unit that we set on a side table and stuck in our sliding door in the living room. This helped SO MUCH! Almost immediately Jordan started waking up more often and feeding more often and started gaining her weight back. At the 12 day weight check she weighed 8lbs 10oz, just 5 oz shy of her birth weight! That was a long story, but it really was what consumed our lives those first 2 weeks.

We had many friends and family bring over food and snacks, which was AWESOME! Seriously, the next time a friend of mine has a baby I will totally sign up to be chef because it was very helpful! Otherwise we would've been eating fast food for 2 weeks! Gross!

Brian went back to work after 2 weeks which was very difficult for him. We went and visited him at lunch a couple times and that was fun! I have been attending weekly Parent-Baby classes at the hospital which are free for new moms until babies are 3 months old, which is when I will be going back to work anyways. The classes have a topic each week that we go over and talk about and then we go around the room and introduce ourselves and our babies and it is like an open forum to discuss milestones we've achieved for the week or problems we are having. It's a great excuse to get out of the house and be around other women with new babies! It's very relaxed too, so we can feed or change the baby, and if the baby fusses it's no big deal.

Jordan isn't on any sleeping or eating schedule yet so every day is a little different. She sleeps pretty good most of the time. She will do 3 hours stretches and even did a 5 hour stretch one night! She is starting to grin and "coo" which is absolutely adorable! We play on her playmat a little everyday and she likes her penguin friend the most! (See pic below) We try to get out of the house even if it is just a walk next door to the grocery store. We are visiting my sister and nephew at least once a week to help my nephew get used to her being around since my sister is the one who will be providing daycare when I go back to work.
We just purchased a baby carrier a couple days ago so we can carry Jordan around when we go to the store or on walks, etc. I used it while walking around Costco and loved it. She totally falls asleep after 5 minutes of walking around! I even wore it around the house last night and was able to do some cleaning/organizing.

A funny story to leave you with. About 2 weeks ago I was picking up Jordan and she was flailing her arms about and scratched my cornea. It got so bad I couldn't even open my eye and it hurt so bad. I went to the doc and had to wear an eye patch for 24 hours! It totally sucked, but it was a funny experience. Brian put some stickers on my eye patch for decoration so that was fun, haha.

Jordan's next checkup is towards the end of September so we will see how much weight she has gained and how many inches she has grown. She no longer fits her newborn clothes and we are now in Size 1 diapers so that is exciting!

PS - I'm still not done with the nursery, which is OK because she isn't in her crib yet. Hopefully I will finish it before I go back to work!

Thank you everyone for checking in on baby Jordan!