Well Holly spent her first night in her own room, in her own cot! She is a big girl now and is too big for the bassinett so she has upgraded to her cot.
Man she looks really funny in it as she is so small! Funny really considering she looks so big in the bassinett! She was really good. To be honest I think I was more concerned about her being in there than she was. I mean afterall she is happy anywhere as long as she gets a feed when she needs one!
I tried out the GoGo Bag for the first time, but I think I will go back to the swaddling her. The GoGo Bag is fine but as she is used to being swaddle up with her arms tucked in, I found that she woke more times during the night than she has been over the last week and a half. I was up to her crying at 1am, 3am and 4am! After the 4am feed I took her out of the bag and swaddled her again. Funny as she slept right through until 7am. So tonight we will go back to swaddling her. I think the combination of being in a bigger area to sleep in and the fact that her arms were out, were the main reasons for her waking. I have to keep reminding myself that she is on 8 weeks afterall not 21! Holly has the tendancy to smack herself in the face when she has her arms out, hence the reason why she kept waking last night. I noticed she had a scratch on her face, which backs up what I had thought. Swaddling will help with this no doubt. Plenty of time for her to go back into her GoGo Bag.
We had our visit with Brenda the Plunket Nurse today. Holly was great as usual. We looked at her head circumference, body length, weight and her eyes, ears, arms and legs. They were a little concerned that she hasn't put on enough weight according to the "charts". They were happy with her appearance and how settled and content she is, so that ruled out that she wasn't getting enough food. They like babies to put on at least 100gms per week. Since birth she should have put on approximately 800gms and she has only put on 500gms. We decided that we would give her a top up of formula in the evenings. She is sleeping for 6 hours at night without waking but there is no need to wake her up to feed her. I was thinking: "No way in hell am I waking her up during the night to feed her, especially when I am having such a great sleep!" Hence the decision to top her up in the evening.
Personally I don't have any problems with the use of formula. I know that some get quite hung up on this subject, but for us we decided ages ago that if that was what was going to be best for our wee girl then thats what we will do. She will still be getting almost all of her feeds from breast milk so one feed a day of formula is cool with me. This also means that when I go back into the cowshed and back on Ambulance duty in the New Year I can get her Nanny to give her a bottle of formula and it won't make a difference to her feeding patterns. I know that breast is best but I also think that not starving my child is also important, so will do what ever if needed to keep her in good health.
Tommorrow Holly and I are picking up Nanny and hitting the shops in town. We thought that we should go during the week and sooner rather than later, as the shops are only going to get worse the closer we get to Christmas! Nanny hasn't been out with us before so I am sure that she is looking forward to pushing Holly around in the pram. She is such a proud Nanny!
We are looking forward to our shopping trip tomorrow :)
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