Things have changed so much since the first (and last) time that I posted. This time I fully intended to keep up with this blog. I want my family to be able to keep up to date on our lives since we live so far away and also I think it’ll be a great way of keeping track of our lil one’s progress as she grows.
We had our first child seven weeks ago. Abbigail was born on 02.01.10 and weighed 8lbs even and was 19 inches long. In the seven short weeks that she has blessed our lives I’m already amazed at how fast she has grown. She’s a very happy baby and is smiling and “talking” to us all the time in her own language. The only time she really cries is to let us know that she is ready to eat.
We are offically out of our newborn clothes as they are now to long for us. We are sitting comfortably in our 0-3 months clothes. However, I’m not sure for how long as our lil one LOVES to eat. She is currently nursing every three hours. We pump and when she takes a bottle she’s eating about 5 ozs at a time.
Abbigail loves her swing and bouncy chair. She also loves being in the car and is HUGE fan of bath time. We have started giving her a bath in the big bath tub with her bath sling and she looks so content, as if she could stay there until the water got cold.
I do have to admit that being a mom is a million and one times harder then I ever thought it would be. Being a military family means that we have no family here to help us when we need a break. It AMAZES me how little sleep a person can survive on. Things are a little bit better now, but when Abbigail was first born she had jaudice and had to be on a bili-blanket, the doctors also wanted her to be feed every two hours. Which means Momma was getting VERY little sleep. Thankfully that’s all cleared up now! Being a mom may be more difficult then I ever imagined, but I think it’s worth every single second. I wouldn’t trade it for a million dollars.
