Olive Mae : One Month

5-27-15

Dear Olive,

I can’t believe you are already one month old. What a crazy month it has been. Its hard to imagine what life was like before you were here. You are such a great baby. You love to be held, especially by your mommy. You are a pretty good sleeper. You will sleep for 2-3 hours at a time and wake up to nurse. Sometimes it takes over an hour to get you back to sleep. Most nights you end up in bed next to mom, but she doesn’t mind that at all. You are a great snuggler.

You unfortunately have been to the pediatrician more times than I would like. You went the day after we left the hospital to make sure your jaundice was decreasing. We had to take you in a few days later for a clogged tear duct that was infected. You little eye was so swollen. The tear duct is still clogged and you wake up every morning with a goopy eye but you don’t seem to mind. ( mommy had a clogged tear duct growing up as well.) .

On the way home from your first Dr. Visit

A sad eye = lots of cuddles

Then you went in for your 2 week well child check where we found out you were an excellent breast feederYou were already 8 lbs 15 oz! by two weeks of age the hope Is for the baby to be back to birth weight. You sure had passed that. That following Sunday we had to take you back in because you got your first cold at almost 3 weeks old. Your nose was so plugged, and you had a sad little cough, you seemed to handle it much better than we did. Mom did not want to put you down. She was afraid something would happen to you. Plus you had a hard time sleeping if you were lying flat. You are such a luckily girls and also got your first sleepover with TT. She held you all night long so that mom could get some sleep, without worrying. You seem to be on the mend now.

You did do some fun things, you were able to go to Quinns 5^th birthday and play dress up with her. Cousin Quinn loves you so much. She just wants you to be happy. She loves to play peek-a- boo with you even though you don’t understand yet. She also likes to “breastfeed” you when you are sad. You friend Henry came over to play. He is giant compared to you, but you will catch up quickly. We had a pizza play date with cousin Emily and Rhett. You had your first real bath and loved it. You spent lots of time with your grandparents who love you so much. You worked on your smiles which are getting better and better every day.