Live and learn

It has been a couple weeks since my last post, things have changed with our little Madelyn. She has now started to be awake more and wanting to interact. This has decreased my time to check email and blog. She is doing great, almost weighing in at 10 pounds. I think we are about done stretching her into the newborn onesies that we do not want to actually let go of yet! We also are about to consider moving up to size one diapers! She is getting so big! I know, I know many babies are born this big, but I sure enjoy the fact that she is soooo small.

Next week brings a whole new set of learning experiences as I go back to work. I am sad to leave her, but also looking forward to getting back to a somewhat routine life. I love my job and know that God gave me the gift to be able to help people and their animals. This is the only comfort that allows me to go back to my job and know I am doing the right thing.

We did have one episode this week where Madelyn got very congested and started spitting up a lot. So far she rarely spits up so this was quite different! She woke up Friday morning and did not want to eat. Being a new mom....I panicked, cried, called my mother, and called the doctor's office. The nurse told me it was likely all mucous and to get a humidifier, aspirate her nose/throat, and elevate the bed. Of course I knew mucous makes the tummy upset, but when your little baby is not acting right everything I knew went out the window! I am happy to report that today (Saturday) seems like a much better day. She is not as ''mucousy." I am not even sure if that is a word, but it is my blog and I can make these things up, you moms know what I mean. What a bad mom, I should have known they sell those humidifiers and humidity level monitors for a reason. Live and learn. We are headed to a wedding today with Maddy so we will see how that goes!

Here are some updated pictures of our little princess. Now these first two are what she does when I try to take a cute picture! The slower shutter speed of a digital makes me miss the smile and the flash catches this pic. Big eyes!!




Below are pictures of another learning experience where I thought she would do her five-hour "nap" after her midnight feeding. So I stayed up and got stuff done around the house until midnight. I went to wake her up to eat (so I could then go to bed and sleep 5 hours). Boy was I wrong! She started her five hour nap after the 9pm feeding. We tried unswaddling her, putting her on the bed and these are the pics. She was not about to be woken up, needless to say I only got 2 hours after these pics!! Live and learn!





....and then some more pics of the past couple weeks! Enjoy.