Happy Memorial Day! It’s hard to believe that Allison is already 3 weeks old. She’s filling out rapidly. Her face is getting chubbier and she’s starting to fit into her 0-3 month clothes. Just as importantly, she is establishing a more regular nighttime sleep pattern. She’ll typically get up after 3.5 hours and then 3 hours. So, if we put her down at 11:00, she’ll get up at 3:30 and then 6:30. We’re on a relatively sustainable sleep schedule – say 5 to 6 hours a night. Hopefully as she grows, she’ll sleep even longer.
Allison is also trying to hold up her head by herself. As we hold her, she’ll hold her head straight up for a couple seconds and then if we don’t catch her body will flop to one side. She’s more cogent – staring in the general direction of Katherine who often times will sit a foot away exclaiming “Hi Allison, I’m your big sister!”
We reached a wonderful milestone (for me at least) tonight. Steve fed Allison over an ounce of milk from a Gerber bottle. Steve suspects that we used Katherine’s older bottle nipple as Allison could barely keep up with it. But, we were super relieved that she took the bottle readily. My goal is to have either Steve, Patty or my Mom feed her at least once a day – so we don’t run into any resistance later like we did with Katherine.