Poppy changes on a daily basis. The latest development is the ability blow bubbles with her saliva. Okay, not exactly crawling, smiling or talking, but makes a nice change from her usual routine of feeding, sleeping and crying.
On Sunday she will be four weeks old and on Tuesday it will be one whole month. What a crazy time it has been so far! It was most interesting to visit friends yesterday who have an 8-week-old. He seems MASSIVE in comparison to her and he has a cry that sounds like an Aprilia 250cc racing motorcycle. Funny to think that she'll be roughly that size in four weeks. What was encouraging to learn is that she gained one whole pound in the last two weeks as she went from 8 to 9 pounds. That would be like an average 160lb adult gaining 20lbs in two weeks!
Finally, since the most common question we get asked is "are you getting any sleep" here's the current answer: yes. She generally has two feeds each night, sometimes one, each taking about one hour from the moment we wake up to the moment we're back to sleep. Since we go to bed around 10 or 11 and wake around 9 that means in theory we're getting something like 7 or 8 hours a night. Many nights it doesn't work out quite so well, either because we go to bed too late, get up to early, she feeds more often or takes longer to get back to sleep. Those are the nights that suck, and we had two in a row this week. The good news is that the pediatrician says we no longer have to wake her for feedings - we can go until she wakes. This is great, since she is capable of sometimes going five hours from the start of one feed to the start of the next which can mean a four-hour block of sleep for us. Two of those in one night would be amazing, and might be just around the corner....
A Very Belated Birthday Post
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