Kayla is 5 weeks old now, and she is doing fantastic. We couldn’t ask for a better baby. More details follow…
The kid is really growing! We haven’t checked her length lately, since that is a little tricky and involves stretching her out and trying to get her to hold still long enough to be measured, but we did get to weigh her, and Kayla is right around 10 pounds. When she was 2 weeks old, she was back to right around her original birth weight of 8 pounds, 2 ounces, which is what is expected for a newborn. When she was weighed again at 4 weeks old, she had shot up to 9 pounds, 11 ounces. That’s 25 ounces in 14 days — very fast growth for a little one. It’s easy to see the growth in her and so nice to know that it signifies a health baby.
Kayla is also doing fantastic with her eating and sleeping schedule. She typically eats her last, late meal around 10:30 and then goes to bed. For a while, she’d been sleeping until around 3:30 each night, waking up for a quick feeding, and then falling right back to sleep until morning. But lately, she’s been stretching out how long she will sleep into the night before waking up to eat. Last night, she set her new record with 6 and a half hours. We’re so proud of her and are very blessed to be pretty well rested parents.
Much of what we’ve learned about helping Kayla to have a healthy feeding and sleeping schedule has come from the book On Becoming Baby Wise . We strongly recommend it for new parents. 🙂 That’s all for now.
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