Three Weeks Old

Well, Amy turned three weeks yesterday. How time flies! Her umbilical cord stump fell off on Sunday morning and Amy has already had two baths. The first one was a little rushed as she was hungry and screaming most of the time, but the second time went much better as she had just been fed and only cried at the very end when her hair was being washed. I weighed her after her bath and she is 10lbs 8oz. So she has gained almost exactly 2lbs in three weeks. I'll have to figure out if that is normal or not, I think I read somewhere that babies gain 2/3rds of a pound per week for the first few weeks and then it goes down to 1/2lb per week for a while. If that is true, then I guess Amy is right on target. She still fits into some newborn items but they no longer have much growing room left and will soon be packed up, sniff sniff.

Amy also had her first bottle yesterday. She was sleeping when it was time to feed her and I had a small amount of expressed breastmilk in the fridge that I needed to use up, so I just pumped and made a bottle for her. She then woke up and my mom got to feed her the bottle while I put Charles and Ryan to bed. She did very well but even though the nipple was marked slow flow, she drank it in record time, something like six minutes! Oh well, I guess I no longer have to worry about her adjusting to a bottle - if it has milk in it, she'll drink it!!! :-)