Friday, April 11, 2008

Baby update

The midwives came by for the 6 week visit - their last one *sniff* - yesterday.

Isabelle weighs a whopping 10 lbs 4 oz. She has gained 20 ounces in 2 weeks. Porker!

She's also gone up by more than an inch around her head and chest (some of the head is surely the skull expanding, since it was measured right after I squeezed her out) and she's about an inch longer than she was before.

She's very alert and tends to stare (how rude!). She can hold her head up for longer times every day. The hair is starting to grow back in on the top of her head, but she's getting a bald ring around the sides and back where she lies on it.

She woke up right before the alarm went off at 7 this morning, so I nursed her through a couple of snooze alarms and she went back to sleep. I got the big kids ready and took them to school and she still wasn't awake when I got back. She just woke up a few minutes before 9 and woke DH up, who wandered up the hall and tried to hand her off wet diaper and all. Nuh-uh!

So now she's eating again with her super cute pink outfit on.... backwards. It snaps down the back, you see. DH claims it's because she's just learning to dress herself. Just looking at her front, it looks fairly normal. It wouldn't be so obvious if the real front didn't look like overalls with a huge embroidered picture of strawberry cake, and if the feet weren't now pointing backwards and if... ah heck, it's extremely obvious and can't be all that comfortable with her toes catching constantly. There, it's loose enough that I twisted the legs (of the outfit, not hers!) so her feet are in the foot places.

And yes, I'll take a picture before I strip her and start over ;)

ETA: Poor DH. Yes, I made him hold her while I took pictures. MIL wasn't ready for her closeup.




1 comment:

moonmamma said...

my DH does that sort of thing all the time, or he puts DD3 (3) into DD2's (7) clothes!
poor soul now has given up trying ot sort DD1's (16) bras and pants out from minein the laundry!