I did it again.. I stayed away too long and then the prospect of visiting and writing the catch up post kept me from posting for fear of being interrupted many times. So I am going to write until I am interrupted and then just post.
Not such a smidge
So my petite small daughter who was 5lbs and 12oz at her smallest is not so small any longer. She is 13lbs13oz which is right in the middle at the 50th percentile… height jumped from 25th to 75th percentile in two months… Now that helps explain the past three weeks lack of sleep. She was waking to nurse every night which she had not done in two months – but for the past two nights we are back to napping and sleeping through the night.
Teething
Another cause of the fussiness over the past few weeks is that LJ is trying really hard to make teeth – which i know can take months to come in the first time. Nothing yet but I did learn her preferences for teething toys at least for these first two teeth… no plastic, cotton, ice ( in a pacifier), or wood. Lj likes one toy – made of natural rubber… Its cute to boot. Here is a link to Sophie the giraffe. Once food is introduced I have a recipe for teething biscuits that I will try out, but until then its all about Sophie well that and my knuckles.
Cloth diapers
i said i would do it if i stayed home….so im gonna try. I found some used AIO’s and I need a few more and we are off and running… So for you cloth diaperers… what is your brand of choice and what advice do you have?
Developments
LJ prefers standing to sitting; playing to being held; her exersaucer to her swing; sitting up (almost) to rolling over (not yet). She laughs and mimics our faces and she kicks in her crib while listening to music. She loves music and anyone who will sing to her. She smiles when I take off my shirt and she grins hen her mom gets home.
She is almost 5 months and that is exciting and scary wrapped up in the cardigan i wear to catch the spit up. The one i learned, not to wear outside the house because undeniably it has spit up on it. Sometimes I cry because this parent thing is very hard, but more times i swell with love.
8 Comments
February 12, 2009 at 10:37 am
We use G Diapers. They work really well for us. I also made some cloth inserts and cloth wipes from prefold diapers. You can see my blog post from yesterday for that…entitled “Here you go Dani”. Our little peanut was super tiny at birth too so I’m interested to see how she jumps in weight and height…she’s already grown a pound and she’s just a month old. Good luck with the cloth diapering.
February 12, 2009 at 10:57 am
Thanks for the updates, glad you and LJ are doing well. We love hearing from you!
February 12, 2009 at 10:58 am
Wow- I can not believe she is already 5 months old and big enough to be teething, standing/sitting! Oh how time flies… I will be curious to read about the cloth diapers, we have debated this back and forth… enjoy your beautiful daughter!
February 12, 2009 at 11:51 am
we love love love cloth diapering, and went through a ton of different brands, including prefolds, thirsties (AIOs), and happy heiny, fuzzy bunz and bum genius pocket dipes. we loved imse vimse covers with the prefolds, but prefolds are a total pain in the ass.
if we had to do it all over again, we’d get only bum genius–so absorbent that they stay super dry, and great for overnight. the happy heinys have much nicer colors, and are a bit more trim, but don’t compare to the dryness of the bum genius. the nice thing is that you can get one size diapers, so you can use them for as long as you need diapers, which decreases the financial blow somewhat. (i don’t at all recommend the fuzzy bunz or the thirsties).
we also love sophie–though now that our daughter is older, only metal–spoons, jar lids, etc will do
February 12, 2009 at 11:01 pm
oh, and i’d love your recipe for teething biscuits. buying store bought baby food depresses me.
February 12, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I’ve got a bunch of happy heinys that are hand-me-downs from Gaby’s diaper days, and we’re using them this time around, too. I’ve also got some Butterfly Kisses I love, but I don’t even know if she’s still making diapers.
The only new ones I’ve bought this time around are some bum genius ones, and if I was going to buy a whole new set of cloth diapers, which I’m not, I’d totally buy an entire set of them.
Have you decided how you’re going to clean them? I highly recommend tea tree oil and lavender — I went the vinegar and baking soda route the first time, and I like the essential oils so much better.
February 13, 2009 at 12:09 am
i’m happy to hear all is going well!
i was listing to npr this morning about chew toys and the associated dangers and wondering what would be a better alternative for the up and coming baby. glad to hear about sophie!
we brought a bunch of prefolds – not sure how they will work out, but i figure we will try them until… i almost wonder if we should have gotten all in one diapers, especially based off some of the comments left here. we may have to live and learn.
February 24, 2009 at 9:29 pm
We love cloth diapering! My advice- don’t buy a bunch of one kind of diaper until you try a few kinds out. What works for one baby might not work for another. A lot of cloth diapering websites (Jillian’s Drawers is our favorite) have trial programs. You make a deposit (around $100), they send you a bunch of diapers, you use them for three week, you send them back, they refund most of your money (like 90%). Doing this really helped us learn what works for our little guy!
Happy diapering