7 Weeks - Where has the time gone?

1 Month Photograph

Wow! Seems like everytime I sit down to write a post something comes up and I have to postpone. I have postponing a lot in the last 7 weeks, but with work looming in just one short week, I need to stop making excuses and get stuff done!

So how is little Ms. Taylor been doing?

Looking back over the last 7 weeks I wonder where the time has gone! It feels like it flew by in a whirl of excitement, exhaustion, joy, and stress.

The first few weeks were very rough as I was recovering from a C-Section and was not very mobile. We also had some concerns about Taylor's lack of weight gain. Turns out she wasn't getting enough milk from me. So she was very fussy every evening due to hunger and I simply couldn't satisfy her without feeding her all night long. After trying to be patient and let her work through it, and thinking we might be on the verge of colic, I called the Dr and went in to see the pediatrician. When they weighed her she had only gained 4 oz in 3 weeks. She should have gained 1/2 an oz to an oz a day. We also had an ultrasound done and learned that she has a spasm/thickening of a muscle in her stomach that causes her to spit up and restricts food from reaching her tummy. So we now have her on a special diet. We have stopped breastfeeding and now I pump, which is getting old really quickly, and she gets a special bottle of formula mixed with rice cereal. I still don't produce enough milk to keep up with the amount of oz she needs at every feeding so for now we are using formula.

Now she is a happy and content little baby. She has her moments when she is fussy and cranky but overall she is much more content than she was.

Looking at Daddy instead of the camera.

Little fuzzy but she looked too darn cute!

Chris and I have been settling into life as parents. We have been able to go out and run errands and do things around the house by taking turns spending time with her. I've started working at the gym again on Saturday's so Taylor has been enjoying time with her Nana while I'm at work. Grandma Trudden is going to be visiting this coming weekend so she will be a spoiled little girl, I'm sure.

I return to work on Monday the 11th and Taylor will be going to daycare. I'm hoping that she will enjoy her time there. I can't wait to go back to work but worry that it might be harder than I think to leave her with the daycare provider the first day. It's going to be quite the adjustment for both of us I fear.

I'll try to be better about posting more about what we have been up to here in the Trudden household.

I made a video for my students with some photos of the last 7 weeks so I thought I would post that up here. Enjoy! =)




I was also playing around with Animoto, one of my favorite websites so you can enjoy that video as well. It has many of the same photos but is a little more unique. =)

Taylor's First 5 Weeks