At three months old Olivia weighs 14 lbs 15 oz and is 24 7/8" tall.
Olivia is still our little princess. She is very smiley and loves her siblings ("Mom! Olivia smiled to me seven times!" says Kayla) and she is getting close to giggling, but is not quite there yet. We can get the first sound out of her, but she doesn't continue the giggle. We will keep on trying!
As happy as she can be, she can also be very angry. Long gone is that soft little cry she had when she was born! If she is unhappy, she lets everyone know. She will go from perfectly content to extremely angry with the snap of a finger.
{I think I would be unhappy too if my soother was being shoved in my mouth, upside-down, by my brother.}
When she is awake, she loves to be held (especially by me). She enjoys her jolly jumper and has also started in the exersaucer now. She does not enjoy the swing as much as it's too restricting for her. Her playmat is only useful when she's in a very good mood. If she's not, she'll get angry as soon as she is put under it.
Olivia has discovered her hands! She is constantly trying to stick her whole fist in her mouth, and now reaches for toys (if she's in the mood!). She has also discovered that she can lay on her right side. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't started practicing with her how to roll over! She's great at tummy time.
Olivia LOVES being swaddled. She usually needs to be swaddled in order to fall asleep. She can be fussing like crazy, and then as soon as she's swaddled, her eyes start getting droopy. It's fantastic. So long as I'm actively listening to her cues and swaddle her when I hear that she's whining because she's tired then she falls asleep so peacefully. She's typically has 3 cat-naps during the day and one longer one. The longer nap often is whenever she's in the carseat, so if we're out and about in the morning then that's when her longer nap is, or if we're driving home in the afternoon from my parents' then that's when she has her longer nap (which is great because then I can get dinner prepped and cooked without having to worry about her!).
She's been doing great with the Dr. Brown's bottles, probably spitting up 15% of what she used to. I'm still only giving her 4oz at each feed, so she eats roughly every 2.5 hours. She has a really sensitive stomach if she has too much to drink, so I'm hesitant to push her oz up until I know that she is absolutely ready for it. She also can't be 'topped up' at all. With Matthew and Kayla I used to be able to give them a half-feed just before church, so that they would be content during the whole service. With Olivia, I can't. She just pushes the bottle out of her mouth. Slightly unfortunate, although it makes her Sundays a little more normal and she's thrown less out of routine.
{She still has blue eyes!}
Olivia has her last bottle usually around 8pm, and then is usually asleep by 9:30pm. She doesn't yet sleep through the night, typically waking up once around 4:30am for a feed. She falls back asleep quite quickly, and then sleeps until 7am. If she doesn't fall asleep quickly then I bring her to bed with me. I just have to be careful that Nathan doesn't climb into our bed when he wakes up in the morning like he so often does!
{Olivia's first time being in the stroller}
3 Months Post-Partum
This has probably been the slowest 'recovery' (in terms of weight loss) for me. I gained nearly 50 pounds, and still have between 15-20 lbs to lose. I don't dare stand on the weigh scale anymore because it wasn't showing any change for weeks on end and was getting frustrating for me. I also don't dare stand on it because I've been enjoying the kids' Halloween candy for the last 1.5 weeks. I have a huge sweet tooth and zero self-control - not a good mix!
I got my period back when she was 9.5 weeks old, as I predicted since she's solely formula-fed. With my next period, I started taking the pill for birth control. Never thought I would have to be on birth control again! My body doesn't like it as much this time; my left eye gets quite irritated and red if I've worn contacts for the day (that's why you see me wearing glasses so often!). So hard to wear glasses when I really only like wearing contacts. Jon wants to take more 'permanent' steps in regards to eliminating the possibility of getting pregnant because he says he 100% doesn't want more children...but I won't allow any permanent decision to be made for a couple years. I'm torn with the decision - my heart tells me that I want more children but my head tells me not to (for financial reasons). How am I ever going to decide? And if I do decide I would like more, how am I going to convince Jon? I like to tease him that I could 'forget' to take my pill... :). Anyways, it's a decision that I think about almost daily. So difficult. I always struggle with big decisions and this is just another I have to make.
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