Holy Growth Spurt!

Eleanor is Six weeks old! Wow! This is the most exhausting but rewarding job of my life. I am tired every day and my back hurts every day but I love my little girl so much. Our follow up appointments have gone great! Ellie is right on track with weight gain and her shots. She weight 8lbs 10oz at her 1 month appointment. She also grew a tiny bit in height.. she is now 21 3/4 inches. Mommy is doing a lot better. She lost all her baby weight! Yah!! Now trying to lose more for overall health and vanity. Blood pressure is still not all the way down but making its way. They lowered my dose again but still not completely off. No protein in the urine and my iron levels are good. Doc said my incision is healing wonderfully and the doctor took me off restrictions for lifting and all physical activities.
Its hard as hell to be at home all day with Ellie. There are some days I just want to cry because I am so tired and Ellie is so fussy. This week has been very challenging because Ellie has been going through a growth spurt. Yesterday I fed her 6oz of formula  per bottle when normally her bottles are 4 oz each But she just kept screaming for more food so like the doctor told us we gave her more.. holy cow! Matthew has tomorrow off work and I am thrilled. I need a day off like you would not believe. I never thought I would be jealous of people going to work. I would love for Matthew to stay home one day like I do and go through what I do. By the time he gets home from work she is usually finishing up a nap or ready for a bottle but not nearly as fussy as she was at 10am or noon. Don't get me wrong.. I love being with my daughter and having the opportunity to spend all this time with her but I have such a new respect and appreciation for my mother being a stay at home mom.. it really is the hardest thing on the planet. It will be so hard to take her to day care and go back to my job so I try and enjoy every moment I can.
Ellie is starting to smile now!! Which I LOVE! We play on her playmat and she beginning to not just be a screaming, pooping, sleeping baby.. she actually is now starting to play and have fun expressions. It helps keep my sanity to see her now smile back at me.
Exie has been very good with Ellie and mainly keeps to herself. She does get jealous when I am playing with Ellie on the floor because she was use to me playing with HER on the floor. She still sleeps with us and I still try and throw her toys and give her treats. She has eaten 4 of Ellies pacifiers and that has me really mad. And her pooping and peeing on the carpets upstairs has me livid. When Ellie starts crawling we plan to have Stanley Steamer come back out and do our carpets again and at that time start locking Exie in her play pen.
Well I gata run.

Three Weeks

I can't believe my daughter is three weeks old! Where did the weeks go? Matthew is back to working half days and my mom is back helping me out while we get use to Matthew being at work. Ellie has gotten so big! I'm sure she weights close to 8-9lbs by now. I'm slowly feeling better. I hate my blood pressure medicine! It makes me dizzy and I have to be very careful when I get up from sitting or laying down. My incision is looking great and you can't even see it unless I point it out. My allergies are bad so I am taking my clariton again. Matthew's dad is cured of his infection! Thank god! He finally got to hold his grand daughter a few days ago. I got to go out for a girls night with Katie and Heidi and my mom. It felt really good to go shopping and have dinner. I did miss my little girl though and was really happy to get home and hold her. It was weird to be away from her for a few hours but its good I took some me time. Its been really hard at night. Ellie doesn't like to sleep at night at all. We change her diaper, feed her and hold her but she wont sleep till we put her in bed with us.. a really bad habit but by 4am we don't care and just want to get to bed. She is too young to just let her cry in her bed. We keep trying every night to get her into her crib and hopefully in the next few weeks she will start to get better with sleeping longer in there then a few mins. She is really strong. She can lift her head when she get angry enough and has super strong legs. Changing her diaper is harder then I thought when she kicks and screams. We love to watch her make faces and can't wait to see her smile back at us and not just when she has gas. Her umbilical cord has fallen off and we have taken her out to Carabas for dinner and Bojangles for breakfast. We also took her to Baby's R Us to pick up more supplies. She was a good girl and it was fun to go out. We also went next door to see the neighbors for dinner. I will be happy when the doctor says its safe to take her out even more to see more people. This weekend her Great Grandmother Luela will be visiting her and monday her second cousins Meg and Hannah will be stopping by. There are so many people for her to meet and I can't wait for more people to come see her soon. She seems to like bathtime better now that its not a spounge bath. The warm water is great to sooth her. She still gets fussy when she gets out because she is most likely cold. We love her so much. Every day with her is a blessing from God and we thank him every day for her!