We’re really out of the newborn haze, and Susanna has grown up so much this past month. She moved from sleeping 8 hours at night to 11-12 hours, and that has made life better for everyone. She’s not an eater like my other two were… only nurses one side at a time, maybe four times a day (plus a 10:30 pm dream feed). Whenever we try to force an extra bottle of pumped milk on her, she really resists unless she didn’t nurse and is truly hungry. I don’t know how she’s growing. But she is! Susanna is still in size 1 diapers and 0-3 month clothes, but she’ll probably be ready to move up to 3-6 when we start cloth diapering again in CA.
She’s so smiley and cheerful when well rested. She definitely prefers being on her tummy (she won’t sleep on her back anymore), and her neck strength is great. She loves watching the big kids play close by her. She likes being held most ways that put pressure on her tummy–football hold, over the shoulder, or on top of Daddy’s head. She hates her carseat, though she has started playing with Benji the Circus Giraffe (favorite carseat toy of all Muller children) on this road trip.
And she’s a thumb sucker! Despite our best efforts to promote the paci (Laura even took the time to figure out that her preferred kind was a latex mam), she almost always spits it out and finds her thumb now.
I am loving the little baby coos that Susanna makes while snuggling in bed with me after her first morning feeding. And her smile makes me glad to be her mommy!
She’s a cross between Lizzie and Tommy. I love it!
Yah for sleeping that much! Sounds like she’s reached a magical stage on so many levels. I cannot wait to hold her next week!!!!!!!
She is growing so much, Emily! She looks like Tommy did as a baby to me…she is just lovely!