The first month of Reagan’s life has been wonderful. I never understood the love that you have for your children until I became a parent myself. I love her so much and would truly do anything for her. I can understand why people have a ton of kids because of the love you truly have for them (we won’t be one of those couples, but I understand why now). We find the little things so cute, and we can’t give her enough kisses and love. We have had so many laughs since she has been born and know that there are more to come. We have changed more poopy diapers then one person dreams of in a month, but we both do it without a fuss. I have gotten pooped and peed on, but Jake still has to wait for his turn. He has held her legs up for too long and caused her to rocket poop all over the place. It’s amazing how much Reagan has changed in just the last month. I look at her and think you’re not my little newborn any longer.
Her best friend is the boob and favorite pastime is to nurse. She grasped right onto nursing. It was a learning experience the first 3 days for both of us, but after that things have been great. She loves to sleep with her arms above her head and makes all sorts of squeaks and grunts in her sleep. People kept telling me her hair would fall out, but the truth is that her hair has only grown since she has been born. Her hair has gotten longer and much lighter. The new hair that is growing in is white blond, and we are pretty sure she will have curly hair. Her hair is not like most baby hair because hers is very frizzy (sorry baby girl you got mom’s hair). It’s amazing how long her eye lashes have gotten. Her eyes have gotten lighter since she has been born also. She was born with grey eyes and they are now blue. I hope she gets Jake’s eyes, but only time will tell. She is a great sleeper at night, and is sleeping from midnight to about 5 am now. The only down fall of this is that she wants to nurse all morning nonstop. I was tried waking her up every 2 hours at night to feed her, but she is such a hard sleeper that it was just not working. I would get her awake long enough to nurse for maybe 10 minutes, if we were lucky. I decided to let her sleep at night and knew that if she was hungry she would let me know. She has been gaining weight great and I can't wait to see how much she has gained in a month. She had her first bottle yesterday and it went really well, except she spit up at ton. I guess she was not used to getting so much milk so fast. Jake really enjoyed giving her a bottle. I could not believe that it took me 20 minutes to pump and only about 5 for her to suck it all down. She is also getting so much stronger on her tummy time and being able to hold her head up for quite a long time now. Today on her 1 month birthday she was on her belly and flipped herself to her back. She also is so strong that at night when she is sleeping she will put herself on her side. I told the doctor about it and she said to make sure she is back sleeping. We put her on her back, but can’t control the fact that she puts herself on her side. The only thing that is a little worrisome for me is that Reagan has a bump behind one of her ears, and another on the back of her head. We took her to the doctors at 2.5 weeks old and he thought it was a lymph node. We are going back again this Friday to have it checked out, and it doesn’t seem to have gotten any smaller. I can’t tell if it has gotten bigger or I’m just stressing about it. So, please keep us in your prayers that it’s nothing and that it will go away.
She has been giving us little smiles, but we are not sure if they are gas or real smiles. The books say that 4-6 weeks they will start to smile. She has been smiling it seems like since she has been born. I have to say that she is a very good baby. She doesn’t fuss much and is just easy overall. I love that when she is nursing she will smile and me and melt my heart. She already has Jake wrapped around her finger and he can’t get enough of her. It was hard on us when Jake’s parents left and Jake went back to work. It’s so nice to have family around and hard that we live on the other side of the world. The big adventure for us this week is to start getting a nursery set up. We wanted to wait and see if we would be leaving, but that won’t be happening for about a year, so we figured we better purchase a crib. I hope that every likes the posting and I will try and update it more in the next few days. It all really depends on how much free time I get. Sorry about the errors. I don’t have time to re-read this and am typing one handed.
~Candice
Reagan,
We love you so much and you have truly blessed our lives. I have to say that being your mom is the most wonderful thing, and I'm so happy I get to watch you grow and change. I have done many thing in my life, but you're truly the best thing that your mom or dad has ever created. I love you and look forward to all the things to come in your life.
~Mom
The pictures go from newest to oldest. The first ones are from today her 1 month pictures~
These are some videos that Mema took. There is not any sound, but still fun to see her. I'll try to upload some of the video we have in the next day or so.
Wow! You ALL look as if you are adjusting very nicely! The love for your child is overwhelming isn't it? I remember I suddenly understood how my parents had loved me.
ReplyDeleteReagan is just precious!