Our baby girl is growing

At Monday's checkup, Sara had gained 5 ounces since the previous Thursday! Success! I was so relieved I almost cried, this time happy tears. She had a full exam and is doing great, and we are also feeling much better. The main thing we're trying to figure out is how often to feed her. She seems to like every 3 hours right now, and has downed the past few 4oz bottles, but she is in her third week so I'm anticipating a few days of growth spurt feeding. She had an 11pm bottle and was awake at 2:45am, but then she slept after that bottle to almost 7:30am. We had decided that maybe 11pm is the latest bottle we want to give before putting her down, it is nearly impossible for us to stay awake any later, so the other feeds are the tricky thing to figure out backing up from there. We want her to be full enough to last as long as possible during the night, and most books' advice is based on breastfeeding schedules instead of bottles (go figure.) We're not sure when the 4 hour schedule will start! Maybe I'll try 5pm and 8pm, then the 11pm bottle? Talk about trial and error!

Grandma and Nana are both helping out this week as Ian has gone back to work. He really misses her, and things aren't going very well with his job and his hours. Yesterday we had Sara in her bouncy chair for the first time without crying! Hopefully she is starting to like it as her neck gets stronger and she discovers the little toys hanging from the mobile.