Our sweet little Hadley has reached her first milestone – one month! After initial concerns about failing to gain weight after leaving the hospital, she’s made up for it in fine form and at her one month check was 11 pounds, 4 ounces and 23 inches long. Both measurements put her in the 97th percentile – quite a change from Arden who was 15th percentile for weight and was nearly three months old when she was Hadley’s size now.
She’s a super snuggler, and pretty quiet unless she needs something. We started calling her “mouse” at the hospital because she was quiet except for some squeaks. I’ve added “Gus”, after the chunky mouse on Cinderella now that she’s gotten into her eating groove. She likes to fall asleep while eating, and then get really upset as soon as you try to put her down to sleep; begging for more. This is a bit tiring at night when I get up to nurse her, but I’m getting the routine down a bit now. She sleeps in three hour stretches and is creeping up on four hours, so that’s not too shabby for one month. I’m not able to keep up with her appetitie solely with breastfeeding and expressed milk, so we’re supplementing a bit with formula.

She’s doing great with tummy time; doesn’t complain and lifts her head up really nicely and tries to scoot with her little legs – I’m thinking we have an early crawler on our hands. She loves to look at lights and faces, and there’s a tree outside our living room window that she could stare at for hours. She’s awake and alert most of the morning, and then begins a cycle of cluster feeding and snoozing from afternoon through night.
Big sister Arden is still doing amazingly well with her and as a bonus seems to have clicked with the potty thing and is now on her fifth day accident-free! Let’s hope I haven’t jinxed things! The key seems to be some cute panties I got from Old Navy and we let her pick a new pair of “big girl panties” at the end of each day without accident.
ohhh she’s so adorable! Congrats!
So sweet.
Anna
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She is a cutie, we need to come over and see her sometime. Cathy
Beautiful post, you have made me realise that having missed the first and second month milestones, I really need to do this with our little one, just to record the progress somewhere. Thank you.
Love her…so cute! 😉
I needed that dose of utter sweetness!
She is so precious. I love the Gus nickname. He is one of my fav Disney characters.