Isabel is now 7 1/2 weeks old and she is growing so fast. Today we will go to the Newborn Clinic to get her weight. Her last weight was 11lb. 5 oz. and that was 2 weeks ago. But she has grown a lot in the last week. I took her head & length measurements this morning and they both have increased quite a bit. Her head increased another 1/2" and the circumference is now 16" (2 inches larger than birth) and her length has increased an inch in the last week and now she measures 24" (which is 2 3/4" longer than birth). She's just a little weed.So, any guesses on how much she will weigh this afternoon? I am guessing she is going to weigh 13 pounds even. Post your guesses!
You can see just how long she is getting in this picture. Pretty soon she won't fit on her activity mat. I'm going to have to get a slip-n-slide for her to lay on so that I have the length covered.
Her outfit today is this cute little Ralph Lauren romper. It says it is a 6mo. outfit, but honestly, Ralph Lauren runs small in babies the same way it tends to run smaller in adults. I don't there there is really any 0-3 months clothes left that will fit her except for a couple pairs of shorts & shirts (no onesies or sleepers or anything that has to fit a certain length.)
We've started putting her down for naps or sleep unswaddled some of the time. She's really wanting to move around a lot, but does seem to have more control of her arms. Plus she's become Houdini and is wigling out of her swaddle to get her arms free (doesn't care as much about getting her legs free, but I don't swaddle the bottom half very tight.) She is much noiser when she is unswaddled (except for when she sleeps next to mom unswaddled, she has always done that very well, but just being next to mom must be comforting.) So, I think this week will be a little tiring for mom as I let her sleep unswaddled more & more, because that will mean I will probably have to rock her back to sleep when she has trouble transitioning between sleep stages. But I know in the end it will be worth it. Right now it is a pain in the butt to have to unswaddle her (which wakes her) to check her diaper, you can't quietly change her diaper with minimal disturbance yet. Plus, you can't do the limp-baby test (pick up their arm) to see which stage of sleep they are in, when their arms are tight to their body you can only guess most of the time and can be wrong and they may wake when you put them down & you have to start all over again.
I think this week we'll do the unswaddling thing during the day & work towards adding in nighttime unswaddling. I'm also getting her in her crib more instead of the bassinet, which is about to leave due to her recent length increase.
Now, if we could only transition her to taking a bottle of breastmilk.
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Babies are supposed to double their birth weight by age 6 months (by gaining .5-1 oz a day.)Isabel would need to gain 114 ounces in 6 months to double her birth weight. As of 2 weeks ago she had already gained 67 ounces and has 47 more ounces to go in about 4 months.
I think she'll make it.
Unswaddled, she is the LOUDEST BABY IN THE WORLD. It's like she's having some kind of grunt-fest in her bassinet. I couldn't sleep last night when that was going on. I'm going to have to get some ear plugs, or we're going to have to transition her to a different room pretty quickly.
Hmm.. she does look to be about 13... but ill go ahead and guess 14 haha.
Caleb weighs 30 pounds now and is 3 foot tall. He isn't even 2. They grow so fast!
Caleb is going to be big then. I heard that at whatever height you ae at 2, double it and you can expect that to be the full grown height.
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