Its a bloggy party

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Ultimate Blog Party 2009!!!

Ultimate Blog Party 2009
{Please pretend that the cool banner is here} Thanks for the help Jen!

So it looks like I don’t know how to put the Blog party banner up.  I’m a little (a lot) embarrassed.  But here’s a link to 5 Minutes for Mom and they can tell you all about it. I have the banner up on my other blog because its a blogger blog and its very easy to add buttons and such.  I really like this wordpress blog better but I need my hubby to help me more and he’s at work so I can’t get that help right this second.  Oh well.

Anyway about this party.  Welcome to any new people who got here by way of UBP.  This is fun, I’ve never done a blog party before.

There are so many cool prizes to be won at this year’s Ultimate Blog Party, but my top three picks would be:

Ergo Baby Carrier
Provided by: A Giveaway Addicted Mommy
Prize Details: One winner will receive an Ergo Baby Carrier, Front Pouch & Backpack. Valued at $163

58 – Kitchen Aid Artisan Stand Mixer
Provided by: Moms Who Think
Prize details: From Amish Friendship Bread to Decadent Cheesecake and all the meals in between dessert, Moms Who Think has recipes you’ll love. We would like to donate a Kitchen Aid Artisan Stand Mixer to help make one lucky winner’s home cooking even easier. (winner’s choice of color, $349.99 retail value)

41 — Your choice of our Simply Precious Photo Tile Necklace ($110), or our key clasp style Boston Locket ($185)
Provide by: Elemental Memories

And if my top three picks are already chosen, I’d love any of the following (in order of preference):

53, 11, 75, 122, 19, 33, 21, 43, 22, 115, 26, 93, 118, 91 or anything else related to babies and young children since I have a 3 month old.

A little about myself.  I’m a new Mom and just quit my job so now I’m a SAHM, which is a lot of fun.  Lily is 12 weeks old and my entire world.  She surprised us by coming 4 weeks early and she’s still a tiny thing.  She’s still wearing her newborn sized diapers and clothes.  I have a bunch of BumGenius 3.0 cloth diapers for her but she’s just too small for them.  I think its just her shape because they claim to be good from 8 lbs to 35.  I can’t wait till she does use them.

I’m married to my best friend in the world, Waldo.  We have 3 cats and live in northwest Montana.  We are really trying to “green” up our lives. That’s about all I can think of for now.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you come back soon.

Lily’s Weight

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On Thursdays our local hospital (where I had Lil) has a new mom group meeting.  We get together to talk about breastfeeding, sleep issues and anything else we feel like.  We also weigh our babies on their super nice digital scale.

Last week 3/12 Lil weighed 8 lbs 7.8 oz

Today she weighs 8lbs 12.9 oz

We have been giving her 2 ounces of formula a day and she still nurses pretty much nonstop when she’s awake.  The breastfeeding specialists suggested going down to 1 ounce of formula per day and weigh her again next week.  If she is still gaining well we’ll make a decision then.

I really hope we can give up the formula.  It gives her gas and makes it so she only poops every couple of days.  I can deal with it if we have no choice but I really would prefer to exclusively breastfeed my baby girl.

I just cant help myself

I just can't help myself

Oh sleep, how I miss you

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Last night was one of the worst we’ve had.  I guess that’s pretty good in the grand scheme of things.  I mean Lily is 12 weeks old and usually has  very good (or at least good enough) nights.  We go through our routine and she goes down nursing with no problems.  She usually wakes up twice briefly to nurse.  Easy peesy.

I don’t know what was different about last night (I have a guess) but everything seemed normal till we actually laid down in bed.  Then all hell broke loose.

Our normal night goes something like this… Waldo gets home and finishes dinner.  We eat.  We move to the couch and watch an hour or so of tv.  Lily nurses and sleeps on and off during all of this.  Then I hand her off to Waldo while I brush my teeth and what not.  Then I rock her and sing while we wait for Waldo to get ready for bed.  Then we lay down, and she nurses off to sleepy town.

Everything went fine until the we lay down in bed part.  Lily started to fuzz and actually cry and nothing I did helped.  We got up and went back to rock some more.  As soon as I picked her up she quieted down.  We rocked till she feel asleep, which happened just in the nick of time.  I was falling asleep and afraid I would drop her.  We go lay back down and it back to fussing and then full on screaming.  Waldo offered to rock her, but I said no.  He has to get up extra early on Thursdays so I wanted him to get some sleep.  I tried unswaddling her, nope still crying.  I took her out of the sleep positioner she uses.  Nope still screaming.  So back to the rocking chair we go.  This time I grab my boppy so that if I fall asleep she can just rest on that and I know she’s safe.  We rocked for an hour or so this time.  I wanted to make sure she was really asleep.  Ok I fell asleep too or we probably could have gone back sooner.

It finally worked.  I figured we might get out of the middle of the night feedings since we nursed so late.  Nope right at 2:30 she wanted to nurse again.  Oh well.  At least she didn’t wake up again til 7:00 so I can’t complain too much about that.

The one thing that I noticed was she had a lot of gas.  I mean a LOT of gas.  The formula make her gassy, I really hope they let us stop supplementing but I don’t know if they ever will.

Here’s hoping tonight’s better.

Just because shes so darn cute

Just because she's so darn cute

What a difference

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I was looking through my Flickr history and found this shot.

10 weeks

10 weeks

It’s my 10 week ultrasound.  I just had to compare it with a picture of Lily at 10 weeks old.

10 weeks old

10 weeks old

We have a ultrasound picture from a later week (19 maybe) and you can totally see Lily in the black and white fuzz.  I’ll have to see  if I have it on my computer somewhere.

Things are looking up

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Well Lily is looking up at least.  Things overall are fine.

I have figured out that Lily likes tummy time more on my bed then on the floor.  After I change her diaper I put her on my bed and squat next to her.  She’s so cute.

Getting stronger

Getting stronger

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