ONE Month

I can't believe that my baby is one month old. Actually, he is more than one month, but I'm behind on posting! In one month, he has gained one lb from his birth weight, and grown one and a half inch! He weighs 8.7lbs which is in the 25th percentile for weight. He measures at 21.5 inches, in the 50th percentile for height, up from 20 inches at birth. He has gone from newborn size diapers to size 1. He is still tiny but growing lots! Quincy is more fun now that he can follow you with his eyes and respond (sort of) to your face and voice. Newborn clothes are getting tight. Now I understand what everyone was talking about when they said, "they grow up so fast". I saw a 5-day old baby yesterday and a baby tonight that was less than 24 hours old...it made me feel like Q was already grown!

We are getting into more of a routine and getting more sleep, yeeeeahhh! We are giving Quincy a bath between 7-9, attempting to establish a pattern to communicate to him, "now we sleep for a long time". He is really doing well, on average, sleeping between 4-7 hours after we put him down at night. John and I are rotating nights so at least one of us is getting uninterrupted sleep every other night. Q wakes up between 2-4am and then between 6-8am.

I think that we are both feeling much better about taking care of the little guy. We pretty much know what cry means what. He cries mostly when he is hungry, dirty, tummy ache, tired, or his pacifier falls out of his mouth (in the picture he was dirty, tired, hungry, and the pacifier fell out of his mouth----if I'm going to post this before the 2 month update then I'll have to use the crying pic, besides it really depicts much of our first month as we were trying to figure out the reasons he would cry). If we could invent something to keep that pacifier in, we'd make our millions! He is so soothed by sucking. He also likes to be held really close and tight to your chest. I love this. It does get tiring after a while though, he prefers to be held. We've read and been told by our pediatrician that we can't spoil him at this age and we should respond to his needs, no matter what they are. Oh, and just pretend that you read this blog a few weeks ago, when Q was actually one month old, and when I started this entry!