Summary of Week 13

Sophia's thirteenth week was from July 25- July 31
This will be the last weekly post I do...I will be just doing monthly updates from now on. :)

Mean muggin' on our walk.

Weight: I weighed her this week and she is 14.5 lbs according to our scale.

Holy cheeks!

Health: This week, I noticed Sophia had a little blister on the inside of her bottom lip.  Of course I noticed it during bath time the night before I was supposed to go back to work.  I googled around and think it was probably a nursing blister.  It didn't seem to bother her any and it's since almost gone away.

Sleep: We started doing cry it out (CIO) this week.  I didn't really feel comfortable doing it before now and I wanted to wait until she was at least 12 weeks old to start. We did it on Wednesday a little bit and then Matt did it on Thursday.  We talked about it and since I will be taking Sophia to work with me on Mondays and Tuesdays we abandoned CIO. It's not really feasible for me to do it with her when I have her at work, so we decided to keep on what we have been doing and give her about 15-20 mins if she wakes up in the middle of a nap to see if she will soothe herself back to sleep. Most of the time she will make noises halfway through her naps, but she is able to fall back asleep. If she isn't able to fall back asleep, then we go in there and give her the paci.  This has worked pretty well for us and she is starting to get a lot better at self-soothing! In fact, this past weekend, we had two days of perfect naps where we didn't even have to go in to her room at all!

 










Development/Social:  This week, Sophia had her first play date! She was very excited, as you can see in the video below.  We met up with Danielle and Melissa and their babies Jase and Hollis.  Jase was born exactly a week after Sophia and Hollis was born about 3 weeks after.  It was so fun to see these three together.  Although we weren't able to get all three together for a picture, I know that there will be many play dates in our future!  It will be so much fun when they get a little older and are able to interact more. It will be so fun to watch these three running around after each other. :)

Jase and Hollis

Jase and Sophia

Diet: Still doing great with nursing.  I just love that time with her so much. They are such sweet moments that I will cherish and remember forever.  At our play date, Danielle and Melissa were telling me that they used a Boppy while they were nursing.  The few times I had used it, I was still putting her in a cradle hold and then using the Boppy.  They suggested that I lay her straight down on the Boppy instead and doing that a couple of times has increased her nursing time. Plus it frees up both hands!

Clothes: Starting to transition into 3-6 month clothes and starting to grow out of some of her 0-3 month clothes.

 

Baby Gear Loves:  Things we use on a daily basis and couldn't live without include the Medela pump, Halo sleep sacks, Sleep Sheep, Baby Einstein activity mat, bouncy chair, Chicco Travel System, Summer Peek Plus monitor. I'm sure there are some that I have forgotten.

Likes: Her O-Ball and Sophie the giraffe, people talking to her, bouncy chair, bath time, and SLEEP!

 

Post Partum: I started back to work on August 1st.  Like I mentioned, I landed a new gig that is super close to home (I can go home for lunch!) and that allows me to work from home some and also bring her in to work with me.  Between my work schedule and Matt's off days, we have been able to avoid daycare or having to have anyone other than Matt and me watching her during the work week, which makes me a happy Momma!!