Two Months Old

At the beginning of this month, we had Operation Plump Davis Up because he was not gaining weight like he should. We spent a good three hours at the hospital on my 30th birthday with the lactation consultant and then with Dr Wahidi. At the beginning of Operation Plump Davis Up he was only 7#8 ounces.

Day 3 of Operation Plump Davis Up

Day 6 of Operation Plump Davis Up

He also was diagnosed with trachemalacia. Basically, it's a floppy trachea in which he will grow out of it. He will breathe very loudly while nursing and has occasional stridor but it does not seem to bother him. After a week of more frequent feeds, pumping and supplementation his weight gain took off. Now he is supplementing usually once a day.

Davis is sleeping an average of 12-15 hours in a 24 hour period and does well sleeping at night, We start our bedtime routine around 1930 by giving him a bath, nursing and some nights supplementing, reading My Little One, and then bedtime prayers. He is usually in the pack n play between 2030-2130.  He sleeps for 4-7 hours straight at night. When I nurse him, he will barely wake up and usually goes right back to sleep. In the mornings, he will wake us up not because he is crying but because of his gas. He will be tooting away! Loudly. We usually start our day around 0900-1000.

He takes a long late morning nap and an afternoon nap with a few short naps in between usually while nursing.

Kim West's Good Night, Sleep Tight has really helped getting Davis on a good schedule. Davis is usually pretty fussy between dinnertime and bedtime.

You can definitely tell a difference in him from one month old to now. Davis is quite the smiler now. The cutest thing is when he is nursing he will stare straight into my eyes and then start smiling. He will be smiling so much he won't eat!

He can hold his head up very well. His legs are so strong and he wants to be able to move around so much. He is quite the jumper when he is gassy. He has become a Momma's boy over the last couple of weeks. Just in the last week, he can move from his back to his side very well, really started "talking" more, and his newborn clothes are getting quite snug on him.

At his two month appointment, Davis weighed 10 pounds which is in the 10% for babies his age, he was 23 1/4 inches long (50-75%), and his head circumference was 15 3/4 (50%).

One month old

Since about a week and a half old Davis has been sleeping 5-7 hours a night and goes 3-4 hours between feeds during the day. The exception is this week he has been eating every 1-2 hours during the day.

Hopefully this growth spurt will help him get back to his birth weight. I weighed him on Friday and he was 7# 0.6. oz :( After feeding him he was 7#4 oz.so we have just been feeding, feeding, feeding this weekend. We will get him reweighed on Monday and go from there.

It is amazing how much stronger Davis gets everyday. He loves to hold his head up and stare at whoever is holding him.

When he is gassy he will push his legs straight out. He really likes to have Daddy's hands against his feet and then he can really push up as if to stand. Gripe water has been a wonderful thing in helping him with gas.

Davis goes to bed for the night between 2230 and midnight. We are working on getting bedtime to be earlier. He sleeps in his pack n play at night and takes his naps in the crib, being held or curled up on someones chest. If he wakes up for a feeding in the night, I can usually get him right back to sleep after nursing.

 

 It is hard to believe that one month has gone by already. As the book that I read to Davis every night (Thank you Mr. David and Mrs. Suzi) says, "You are very loved, my little one!"