I can't believe my little girl turned 3 months old this week! Where has the time gone?!?!? We've had lots of changes in the past couple of weeks and Lily is doing great! The biggest of changes, I have gone back to work. 12 weeks is double the average maternity leave but it seemed to just fly by this time around. I wasn't ready to go back to work at all. It was much harder this time and I'm not sure why. With Joshua, I was raring to go back to work. I think with Lily coming in the midst of the holiday season, my mom being here longer this go around, and the fact that we are more established and have more friends for me to meet up with for coffee and lunch I didn't get nearly as bored. Not to mention that I have a very active 3 year old to keep up with as well. Lily is in her second week of daycare and doing very well now. The first week was a little rough for both of us. We had given Lily several bottles before she started and like her brother the first one was great and it steadily declined from there. She wasn't to the point of absolutely refusing the bottle but she was close. The first day she hardly ate anything all day and then nursed for 30 minutes every hour and a half after we got home. Poor baby was starving! The second day they worked with her and got her to take 1-2 oz every 1.5 to 2 hours. After that, I went on a mission for some different bottles. I tried 4 bottles on her before we found one she liked! It's actually a new bottle made my Tommee Tippee and it's called the Closer to Nature bottle. The nipple on it has a super wide base and looks more like the real thing. That was the only bottle she would take 4 oz from at a time so that's what we got. Of course they are odd shaped bottles that don't fit my dishwasher or any of the bottle baskets for the dishwasher so I ended up having to buy the bottle sterilizer to go with it. I'll do whatever it takes to get the princess to eat!
Another big step was moving Lily to her own room. She was still sleeping in a bassinet in our room until the night before I went back to work. I finally figured out that she was only sleeping 5-6 hours at a time because we were waking her up anytime we moved or if the dogs started snoring, shaking, or jumping off the bed. What a difference her own bed has made! I've been putting her down around 9:30 or 10 and she goes until 6:30 when it's time for me to feed her before heading off to daycare and the office. I run a vaporizer in her room for white noise and it seems to work like a charm! I am so glad to get a full night's sleep again. I figure my patients also appreciate having a dentist that is fully alert!
We are headed off to Midland this weekend for our first weekend trip with both kids. I am amazed at how much longer it takes to pack when an infant is involved. Speaking of which....I better get back to it!
