6 Week Update

I'm combining my updates because weekly updates were getting to be a bit much! Now I have to see if I can remember all the new things that happened though!

Making the move to the crib
We decided about a week ago to move her into her crib in her room. She had been sleeping in the bassinet in our room and when we first tried to move her to her crib she hated it and refused to sleep in it. We decided to let her cry it out in her crib for a little bit and it worked! She ended up sleeping from 9:30pm to 3am in her crib that night!

White Noise
Up until Wednesday she had been waking up about every 3 hours during the night but then after I'd feed her she'd go right back to sleep. Although it's not fun to get up in the middle of the night I didn't have to stay up that long with her. Unfortunately on Wednesday she decided to stay up for 3 hours during the middle of the night. I was exhausted and tried everything to get her to go back to sleep. Then the same thing happened Thursday night. My Mom suggested I try playing some white noise in her room. So I downloaded an album from iTunes that has the sound of a vacuum cleaner, dishwasher, running water, and other noises like that. On Friday night I played the vacuum cleaner track on repeat and she slept 8 hours! I couldn't believe it! In fact, I actually woke up after she had been sleeping for 6 hours and had to go in there and feel her head to make sure she was still alive! Since Friday we've been using the white noise (mostly the vacuum cleaner and dishwasher sound) everytime we put her to bed. She sleeps for at least 5 hours now! It's amazing! I'm praying this will continue :-)

Chunking Out
Another big change that's happened the last couple of weeks is how much she's grown! Her cheeks are getting so chubby and she no longer has a chin (see image). Her legs, arms, and belly are starting to fill out too. She's definitely getting plenty to eat :-) I have a feeling she's going to be a chubby baby like her mama!




Carseat drama
For the past week and a half or so she has decided that she no longer likes her carseat. This means everytime we get in the car she screams her head off! I'm really hoping this is just a phase, otherwise it's going to make for some very long car rides and lots and lots of Tylenol!

Wedding ring disaster

So I think I might have done one of the dumbest things I've ever done before! About 2 months or so before I had Alexa I had to remove my wedding rings because they were getting too tight around my fat fingers. After I delivered I tried putting them back on but my fingers were still too swollen. Well, it's been a month since then and I've lost most of the baby weight so I thought I'd try again this morning....can you see where this is going?!?

I was determined to get the rings on and I thought if I could just get them over my knuckle it would be fine. Boy was I wrong! I managed to get the rings on my finger and over my knuckle, but as soon as I did I knew I was in trouble! Immediately I felt the tightness on my finger and it started to turn red, then purpleish. I started freaking out! I grabbed the lotion and frantically rubbed it on my finger. No luck. I ran downstairs and got the butter and again frantically rubbed it on my finger. No luck. Trying to pull it off was just making matters worse. I prayed to God to please let me get these rings off. Thoughts of having to amputate my finger ran through my head...that is if it didn't fall off before the ambulance got there. I called my mom begging for her to give me a solution. She suggested all the things I already tried. Then I called Brian. He rushed home and was determined to get the ring off. So he made me ice my hand in ice water for 20 minutes to take down the swelling. Again, no luck. It was clear the only alternative was for me to go to the ER to have it cut off (the ring that is!).

Brian's mom took me to the ER where they had to cut the ring off. It took about 30 minutes or so for them to cut through the platinum with this special tool they have. Fortunately the staff was nice and told me I'm not the only person this has happened to :-) They also didn't charge me and the ring is still salvageable. It will definitely need to be resized though :-) Lesson learned.

On a similar note I tried on a pair of my old heels yesterday and realized they are much tighter than they used to be. I think I'll buy a new pair rather than risk those having to be pried off!

One month old!

Hard to believe it's been a month since Alexa was born! It's also hard to imagine life without her. She's already growing up so fast. We had her pictures taken when she was just one week old by our friends Nina and Cecilia, who own a photography business Nina.Cecilia l creative spark. The picture above is one of the pics from the shoot and here's a link to their blog that has a few more pics. http://ninaceciliacreativespark.blogspot.com/. Her face has changed so much since that photo shoot! She's definitely starting to fill out more and some of her newborn clothes are getting tight on her! She's so strong too. I think she might be able to hold her own head up pretty soon. She's sleeping fairly well at night but still gets up every 2 1/2 or 3 hours, with sometimes one 4 hour stretch. The good thing is that right after I feed her she goes right back to bed. I think she's figured out the days and nights because during the day she doesn't want to sleep at all, making it very difficult to get anything done! I have learned to multi-task though, even managing to nurse while surfing the net or posting on the blog :-)