Just teasing...

Okay so I give up. I don't understand. I really don't get it. Delilah has not slept through the night since my last blog. She woke up after 5 hrs then after 3. Last night she was even worse. She woke up at 2, then 4:30 then would not go back to sleep. I have people asking me all the time, "does she sleep through the night yet?" And man she just teases us with one here then one there but never does it even two nights in a row. Right now it may be due to her cold, it may be due to my lower milk supply (which last night she got bottle since I was at bridge so can't be that) or is she afraid of storms? I don't know but if one more person tells me that oh my baby slept through the night at 8 weeks, 9 weeks, or even 3 months I am gonna blow. We are at 4 months and she still doesn't sleep through the night. Now we have the fun of she can easily roll from her tummy to her back but when she sleeps she needs her belly so she gets mad and rolls herself over but then can't fall asleep on her back. She needs to roll back to her belly to sleep. Oh please if anyone has ideas please help!

4 months...

Wow how time flies. It just seems like yesterday I was writing the 3 month update and now here comes the next one. I will get pictures on here hopefully soon but right now just the update. Her four month check-up went well. She is still in the upper 80 percentile for her weight, upper 70th for her head and she climbed from the 20 to the 38 percentile for length. She is 15 lbs now! She is getting better with her rice cereal and we got the okay to go to twice a day cereal if we want. She is not so keen on the cereal in the morning thing but is getting better. Doctor gave her a clean bill of health. She truly is amazing.

Well last night for the first time ever Delilah slept the entire night through and mommy got almost 8 hrs of sleep. Almost like 15 mins short. Tonight I am going for the gold and as soon as she goes to bed I am crawling into my bed and going to go to sleep as I work day three tomorrow. So hopefully she treats mommy good. She has been slowly getting better and sleeping longer, and sounder without waking up. So we shall see.

This upcoming weekend, Delilah is going hunting. Okay well not really but she is going to go up and root on Grandpa and Uncle Dave on the hunt for pheasants and hope that she can feel her first pheasant feather. Will be good food, good company, and I am sure lots of laughs, yeah the hunters may be the butt of the jokes but we will see.

Other than that life is good. Delilah has another cold. That makes 4! Yeah 4 colds in four months. Jarrod says not to worry that they have 6-10 colds in the first year of life, but we are on course for 12! Oh well.

Jarrod loves teaching but has quite his hands full with two of the kids. I am busy at work and just enjoy what I do. Would like it better if I was a little more rested at times but hey that is having a child!

Rice...

So you can see the face from the first bite which is to be expected. Then she settled in and made quite a mess but she did eat a about half of it. She did sleep 7 hr which is better but it is not the miracle everyone said it would be and that she would sleep through the night with a full belly and we would get great sleep. Oh well keep trying and will see how tonight goes.

Time for the rice...

Okay so as many of you who have read this blog knows that this rice thing has been a great debate for me. Well we are just a couple days off anyways from what the doctor said and she is sleeping less again. She woke up at 1:30, then 4:30 then 6. Okay enough waiting. Tonight I think (Jarrod and I have not discussed it yet) but we are going to go all out with the rice tonight. Give her the full amount that the doctor recommended and give 'er a try! I am nervous and excited but I think twice a day we are going to give her the rice cereal. So my question... do you give it to her before or after you breastfeed? I could argue both ways. If you give before she is likely to be hungry enough that she will eat but then she might not take enough liquids. You breastfeed first and I doubt she will take any of the rice because it is so different, so I guess rice first. If she is thirsty she will wake me up and let me know! So anyways we will see, stay tuned.

The exciting news! She rolled over. Okay now as some of you know Delilah sleeps on her tummy. I know, I know, NICU nurse puts her baby on her tummy but that was the only way Delilah would sleep. Well anyways last Thursday night, September 25th, after her 4:30am feed I went to lay her back in bed. I laid her on her belly and when Jarrod woke up at 7:45 to go check on her she was just awake and content in her crib on her back! Well Jarrod asked me if I laid her on her back and I said I didn't think so but I was so tired I didn't remember for sure. Then she didn't do it again so I thought ok I must have put her on her back. Well last night after the 1:30 feed Jarrod went in to get her at 4:30 and she WAS ON HER BACK! And I know that I had put her on her tummy because when I laid her down I had to give her her pacifier to calm her down and she kept digging her face into the mattress to knock the pacifier out! So she is shy. She doesn't want to do it where we can see but does it when she is alone! So yeah Delilah!