It wont be like this for long

Raegan is already 4 months old! I can’t believe how fast time is going by and how much she is changing and growing everyday.

Her stats:

Birth- 6 lb 13oz 20 ½ inches long

Left hospital- 6 lb 11oz! The doctors were very happy that she only lost 2 ounces in the hospital especially since she is an exclusively breastfed baby!

1 week- 7 lb 6 oz

2 weeks- 8 lb 10 oz

1 month-10 lb 8 oz 21 ½ inches

2 months-12 lbs 6 oz 23 ¾ inches

4 months- 14 lbs 13 oz 25 ¼ inches

Raegan is a very happy and healthy baby. She loves to sleep just like her parents which is awesome. Knock on wood but I have not had a sleepless night yet. When she a newborn she only woke up 2 maybe 3 times at the most during the night. She would wake up, eat and fall right back to sleep. Around 6 weeks she was only waking up once around 4am to eat and fall back asleep. She started sleeping through the night 7pm to 7am at 10 weeks!!!! Every once in a while she will wake up around 5am to eat, fall back asleep 10 minutes later and wake back up around 9am. We average 10-14 hours of sleep at night!!! How can you not love this child?!?!

On Novemeber 11 Raegan rolled over (back to belly) for the first time. She was 3 ½ months old. She only does it every once in a while because she probably knows she will end up on her tummy and she HATES being on her tummy!

She has started to sit up on her own and is starting the long, miserable teething process. She now wears a bib at almost all times because all she does is drools and she loves blowing bubbles. Raegan is doing an awful lot of babbling these days and Ryan is ready for her to start saying dada! But then again he is ready for her to be walking and running around and be able to play with him. If it’s up to him she will be throwing a spiral by the time she’s 2. She loves her jumparoo and is very active and strong. She loves to stand up on your lap and doesn’t want to be held like a baby. Her absolutely favorite thing in the world right now (besides her mom of course) is the animals, especially Isabelle. She watches them every where they go and smiles every time she sees them. We can’t wait for her to be old enough to take care of them!

At her 4 month checkup on December 1, she got 3 vaccines. 1 oral and 2 shots. She did great! She didn’t even cry. She kind of looked at me like ouch mom that hurt but didn’t make more than a peep. She was smiley and playful all afternoon until about 6pm. She started running a fever and was just crying non-stop, unless she was with the dogs! We finally got to sleep around 11pm and she slept the rest of the night but woke up the next morning not feeling well. She had a 102.7 fever all afternoon and was so fussy. I gave her some Tylenol and rocked her for hours and her fever was down to 101 at bedtime. Poor baby. She is feeling much better today!!!

I told her pediatrician what a terrible napper she is. I shouldn’t complain since she sleeps so well at night but it takes an hour to get her to fall asleep because she would fight it so bad and then she would only sleep for about 30 minutes, 3 times a day, and she was eating every hour to maybe 3 hours at the longest during the day, and wouldn’t eat more than about 3 or 4oz at a time. It was killing me so her pedi recommended starting her on rice cereal. The past 2 days have been great as far as feedings and naps go. She is now eating around every 3-4 hours and is taking hour to two hour naps, right now she is almost to 3 hours and does not fight it! WOOHOO!!!! But of course I am sitting here blogging instead of cleaning the house, sorry Ryan, priorities! So this has you up to date on the world of Raegan! Lets see how good I am about keeping up with it!!