Luke's 1st Month

Firsts: Meeting his sisters, Halloween, ride in the car, coming home to his house, outing with Mommy to Target, date night with mommy and daddy

News Headlines: Donald Trump was elected president on November 8, 2016.

Mommy and Daddy’s Favorites: When you’re sleeping and make sweet little sounds and sucking, holding and snuggling you

Milestones: you’re getting better at holding your head up, you like watching people and tracking things

Measurements Weight and length clothes and diapers: mostly 0-3 months clothes but still some newborn, you used up most of the newborn diapers so we decided to move to the size 1’s

Like Mommy/Daddy/Aubrey/Charlotte: everyone says you look more like Charlotte as a baby. You also sleep better like she did. However you seem to have a little more issue with spitting up like Aubrey did.

Funniest Moment: The first time you peed on your face…you didn’t think it was very funny.

Memorable moment: Getting to see your sweet face, hear your cry, and holding you for the first time. Also when you got to meet your sisters for the first time.

Challenges: Spitting up! You barf up your milk after almost every meal…and most of the time it’s a pretty significant amount. Diaper changes have also been a bit of a challenge. First of all, your sisters never sprayed themselves in the face! You seem to need new clothes after a lot of changes. Also we had to deal with the whole stitches from the circumcision that never happened…so that added an extra element.

How we spend the day: You sleep a lot and when you’re not sleeping you’re eating. You’ve started having a little more awake time, but for the most part you are pretty go with the flow!

Feedings/Eating: You are eating on demand. I try the whole eat, play sleep thing, but honestly for now its just on demand. Although you are pretty good at not having to always be nursed to sleep. You are a really good eater already a very efficient nurser. It doesn’t take you long at all.

Sleeping: You sleep a lot! You have several times during the day where you sleep really long stretches and then a few cat naps here and there. At night you are doing really well for now! You go to bed about 9/9:30 and wake up 1 and 4. Or sometimes if it’s a really good night you’ll wake up at 2 or 3 and then sleep until 6:30! You are also really good about sleeping when we lay you down and have done really well with that since we were in the hospital. You’ve also let me put you down drowsy and will fall asleep on your own. The only real issues we’ve had are when you spit up and it wakes you up. It comes out of your nose and then you sound really congested and you don’t sleep well. Or then you’ll get the hiccups.

Personality: You seem pretty laid back for now. You were definitely more calm in the womb than either of your sisters…so maybe you’ll be a more easy going kid! We will see.

Likes: eating, your paci, being held and snuggling naps, you tolerate your sisters hugging and kissing you all day really well! Laying on your back and stretching after a diaper change, looking at lights

Dislikes: spitting up out of your nose, hiccups, when your paci falls out, when you get cold after a bath, being awake in the swing (you’ll sleep in it most of the time)

Mobility: practicing lifting your head, lots of adorable stretches

Favorite toy: you really seem to like your paci and it seems to soothe you. Fingers crossed you keep this up! Aubrey is really good about giving it to you…she pushes it in there pretty hard haha! But she can almost always get you to take it.

Upcoming Events: Your first thanksgiving is coming up in a week! Also you’ll have two doctors appointments this month. We go for your one-year appointment where you’ll get your second hep B shot. Then the week after thanksgiving we have to go see a pediatric urologist. They think you may have a mild hypospadias, which is why they weren’t able to circumcise you at the hospital. We are hoping that isn’t what it is and you wont have to have a surgery at 6 months to fix it.

New Explorations: You’re working on finding your hands. You like to slurp on them when you do.

Sounds, words, and communication: Cute little guinea pig noises while you sleep, grunting, and crying. You rarely cried at all the first few weeks. Now you really only cry when you are tired or when your spitting up seems to hurt.

Teeth: just cute little gums:)