Today Laila had her three month old doctors appointment. Sadly, I had work, as did my husband, so my mom (Laila's Nana) brought her for me. She is healthy and happy and has all of her shots. She is in the 54th percentile for height (24 inches long) and the 9th percentile for weight (11.5 pounds). I'd be a little freaked out about the low percentile on the weight if 1) the doctor hadn't said she was fine and 2) I hadn't been in the 10th percentile my entire childhood. She's just a petite little thing.
My mom asked the pediatrician about upping my milk supply and she said that the best thing to do is to drink a lot of fluids - like 7 8oz glasses... or about 56 ounces. I'm probably drinking about 35 ounces a day now, so I definitely need to step up my fluid intake! The dr also said to make sure I'm getting enough calories (as someone who has never paid any mind to calories, I'm not sure if I'm doing this or not), and that if I wanted I could get some supplements at a health food store that may or may not help. So I am going to try really hard to drink more water and consider going to a health food store for the supplements when I have some extra money to spend.
The crib sleeping thing, by the way, is not going great. She has been sleeping about 3 hours a night in the crib and then waking up. After she wakes up I just put her in the co-sleeper and after a tiny bit she goes back to sleep, but then sleeps fitfully for the rest of the night. It's painful. Especially since I've been doing baby duty all alone at night because Enzio has gone back to work and I feel bad asking him to get up. Which isn't necessarily fair to me either... but whatever. Tomorrow I don't have to be at work until 12, and at first Enzio said he was going to go to the gym but then he saw how upset I was that he wasn't going to watch Laila when she woke up so I could sleep in and so now he's not going to go to the gym. And I, of course, feel guilty. But I also really, really need to sleep. He said he would do Laila duty tonight ... sort of. If she is needing help getting to sleep he said he would take over, but as the crib is next to my side of the bed (where he refuses to sleep) that makes it kind of difficult, meaning I will be on Laila duty again unless she wakes up for real and needs to be rocked back to sleep (instead of me sitting there repeatedly putting her pacifier back into her mouth).
Wish us luck for tonight. She is probably going to wake up really soon because she last ate at about 6:30 or 7, and has been asleep since 7:30. In her crib. Meaning I have half an hour until she probably wakes up again. Ugh.
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