Scotty and I experienced our first middle of the night mess... I fed her around 3am and woke Scotty up to change her before I rocked her back to sleep. He began changing her - got her diaper off and then we heard a very loud squeeze of a ketchup bottle noise....then I hear Scotty say, "Jen, she just pooped on me." I asked if it got everywhere and he said yes. So I get up and look and sure enough it did. All in our sheets, all over the changing pad, all over her clothes, all over Scotty's arm, and all over the floor. I found more the next day 2 feet away that I didn't see when I was cleaning in the middle of the night. Who knew something so tiny could make such a mess! Oh well - she is still so cute : )
I had a small victory this week. I can wear my own shoes again!! Yay! My feet were super swollen the last week of my pregnancy, the whole time I was in the hospital, and my first week home. But this week I wore my own shoes and my ankles and feet are back to normal! Just one of many body parts I am working to get back to normal... Speaking of that - I have lost 20 pounds since giving birth. I am hoping that the weight keeps coming off!
Scotty, Mimi (my mom), Charlotte, and I went and had pictures taken this week. We went Thursday evening last week and Charlotte was not having it. It was weird to see her so upset because she has been very calm. We ended up going back on Monday morning and she was MUCH better. I will post the link to all the pictures when they are ready. Hopefully that will be later this week. There are some super cute ones!
Charlotte had her 2 week check up yesterday. We saw our pediatrician, Dr. Claytor this time. She is very nice. She checked Charlotte over and said that she looked great. She has grown 1/4 of an inch but is still just a little under her birth weight. She weighed 8 pounds 5 ounces when she was born and weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces yesterday (9/17). I was pleased with that and the doctor said that was normal. She said that bigger babies lose more after birth and breast fed babies can take a little longer to regain the weight so she was happy with the progress that Charlotte had made and felt that she would be back up to her birth weight within the week. I had to ask about waking Charlotte every 4 hours to eat. She has slept longer than that a couple of times and in the hospital they told me not to let her go longer than 4 hours without eating. The doctor said that after this week when Charlotte has some more time to regain her weight then I can let her sleep.
I have been wondering about bottle feeding. I want to make sure that my milk supply is established well and that Charlotte is very comfortable with nursing. She does very well with nursing and I do not want to compromise that. I will be going on a trip in October though and she will have to be bottle fed at that point. The doctor said that bottle feeding was fine but not to give her more than 1 in 24 hours right now. I was doing some research and some things said to wait at least 2 weeks others said 6 weeks but the over all consensus was 3-4 weeks. Many mothers on the websites said that waiting 6 weeks or longer made it very hard for the baby to take the bottle, some didn't take the bottle at all. Charlotte is close enough to 3 weeks for me and I wanted Scotty to be able to give her the first bottle and he was home this weekend so we tried it. I pumped a little over an ounce (that was recommended by my research, to just pump a little and nurse the rest of the feeding) and so that is what we did and Scotty fed Charlotte her first bottle! She did great! She was half a asleep at first and we had to wake her up so that she would take the bottle and when she did she did ate like a champ! She finished the bottle and then I nursed her until she was full and she had no problem with switching back. Hopefully that keeps up! I plan to give her one bottle every couple of days for right now and if she does well with that we will move to one bottle a day.
I have been trying to pump to build up a milk supply but the doctor and the lactation consultant wanted me to wait another week on that as well. I am not sure why. I enjoy pumping and knowing that I am building a supply. It has not affected my milk supply at all and I am getting between 3-4 ounces per pump so I am not sure why they want me to wait. Not sure that I am going to follow those directions.... My body, my baby, I have to do what works for us (as long as it isn't harmful of course).
The doctor also instructed me that I need to give Charlotte vitamin D drops. She said that breast fed babies don't get vitamin D and that I needed to give her the supplement. She said she may not like the taste of them but Charlotte really likes them and does really well swallowing them! She said that if I do give her a bottle I can slip them in there as well.
The doctor also said that anyone who is going to be around her a lot needs a flu shot and the TDAP shot. I got the TDAP shot in the hospital (tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough). Scotty will have to get that and he gets a flu shot through work every year. I am apprehensive about the flu shot. I have never had one before and I have never gotten the flu (knock on wood) and I have heard that the shot can make you sick and that you can still get the flu if it is a different strain. I am going to get one for Charlotte but I am not happy about it.
I am trying to keep up with Charlotte's baby book. I feel like that I am falling behind already. I need to add her hospital visitors (Lisa, Melissa with chocolate milkshakes, flowers, and the twins, Bub, Grandmommy, Granddaddy, Brian Turk, and Mimi - if you want to count her as a visitor). I also need to add this last doctor's visit measurements. I can't imagine what I will have written in baby #2 and 3's baby books if I'm starting out like this.
Charlotte had some visitors this week (also needing to be added to the baby book). Her Aunt Lisa came and visited and also her Aunt Amy and her family from Florida came to see her (both are Scotty's sisters). Amy made an awesome quilt for Charlotte. It is pink and made of many of the towels that the students at USC use during Sandstorm at the football games. It is very cool and such a thoughtful idea. Her son Kyle also brought Charlotte a gift. He knitted her a pillow. It is pink and yellow and quite snuggly. Thank you guys!
Scotty also brought some neat gifts home from work this week. He brought home a onesie and bib given to us by the Gamecock Club and he brought home a diaper bag, blanket, onesie, and tennis shoes that were given to us by Under Armour. Very very nice of both groups to think of us. Thank you!
Lisa, Jerri (Scotty's mom), and Kendra Turk, the wife of one of the other GAs brought dinner to us. It was all so good and so helpful. My mom doesn't mind cooking for us but it was nice for her to have a break as well. Thank you!
Well that is all for this week. Here are some pictures from the week : )
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| Smiles : ) |
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| 2 weeks! |
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| Scotty is in love with the little shoes : ) |
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| Charlotte, her Aunt Amy, and Grandmommy |
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| The quilt that Amy made |
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| The pillow that Kyle made |
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| Charlotte enjoying both : ) |
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| Even babies need comfy slippers! |
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| Daddy giving the first bottle! |
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| And just for fun - look how much Charlotte actually looks like her 3d/4d ultrasound! Pretty cool stuff! |
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