Thursday, July 24, 2014

Morgan 1 Month



Weight & Height: She was 7.5 lbs at her two week appointment but she is growing like a weed so I know she weighs more now. Not sure about height, I will measure her for the next update.
Eating: Morgan loves to eat! Sometimes she will cluster feed and eat a lot at once, or like yesterday she didn't eat for 5 hours and slept the entire time! (It also depends on how much formula and how much breast milk we are putting in her bottles.)
Nursing/Bottles:
I am still just pumping breast milk mostly into bottles but we are getting better with latching and trying to add a few nursing sessions in throughout the day. She still falls asleep after about five minutes of nursing and its impossible to wake her up!
Sleeping (naps): Naping randomly throughout the day. 
Sleeping (at night): Morgan is doing great with night sleeping lately! the routine is normally going to bed around 10 but takes about 30-45 minutes to get her down then she sleeps till about 2:30 when /i have to wake up and pump and feed her and takes about 30 minutes to get back down till about 6:30am. In the morning is grandmas shift :) so grandma takes her into her room until about 8am so I can get some  sleep. 
Clothing: Still hits in her newborn clothes but they are starting to get small on her. She can fit into some 0-3 months clothes and we are about out of the newborn diapers.
New this month:
  • She is very aware of her surroundings and loves looking at her mobile in her crib and little toys hanging from her swing. 
  • She is also able to sit up in her gumbo seat and can almost keep her head up for awhile!
  • Morgan loves sleeping on her side and when we put her on her blanket to do "tummy time" she is able to roll herself onto her side.
  • Starrting to smile...may still just be from gas though :)

Nicknames: Peanut, Morganator
Morgan likes:
  • Country music
  • Her swing
  • Blowing bubbles with her mouth
  • Sleeping with her hands by her face
  • Morgan loves being talked to

Morgan dislikes:
  • Being swaddled
  • Getting the hiccups, which happens often!



Monday, July 21, 2014

Morgan has arrived!

Morgan Duggan-Childs was born on Tuesday June 24, 2014 at 11:34am at 6lbs 12 oz and was 20 inches long. My labor started on Sunday evening, I started have stronger braxton hicks contractions and I woke up at 5am on Monday morning and could not go back to sleep because I was so uncomfortable! Matt was suppose to go into work at 8am but my contractions started getting stronger so he called into work to stay home with me. Around 10am we went to labor and delivery where they told us that I would probably going into labor tonight but that I was not ready to be admitted and I should go eat some lunch and take a walk.

I was kind of disappointed I wanted to be able to get the show on the road but instead we went home and took a 2 mile walk to try and get my labor started. I waited about 5 hours before going back to the hospital. The contractions were continuing to get stronger and closer together and I was sure I would get admitted this time. Nope! they sent me home again and said to continue to labor at home because I wasn't dilated enough yet. Long story short we went back two more times before we finally got admitted and  I got the magical epidural! The next couple hours we slept waiting for things to progress and then around 2am the doctor broke my water and it was more waiting around and sleeping till it was time to push. I pushed for about 3 hours, Morgan did not want to come out easy! But she finally made her appearance into the world 1 week and 1 day early :) Matt and I were instantly in love. We spent the next couple days in the hospital and my mom arrived the day were were discharged.












We ended up having to go back to the hospital and spend one more night there for Morgan's jaundice and low birth weight. She was not latching properly when trying to breastfeed and she lost a lot of weight in the 24 hours we were at home. I started pumping and we also started supplementing formula to help get her weight back up. The breastfeeding has been a whole different struggle and I am not sure we will completely get there all the way but I have made it to one month so far so we will take it day by day :)