12 weeks

Weight: 16.6 lbs
Mum's weight: 175.6lbs (was 200lbs after giving birth to Lauren so -24.4lbs) only another 25.6 to go!

Funny how these past 12 weeks have gone by so quickly but the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy drag on. Today last year I would've been on day 14 of my cycle which means Lauren was conceived sometime in the next 2 days.

Lauren has another cold which she's now given to me. She's also been a lot more vocal these past few days. This girl sure does love to hear her own voice!! Even with the soother in she makes noise. No idea where she gets it from as Dan and I are not the talkative type. She's also starting to have better control of her hands and bats at things, although she's very selective at which toys are worthwhile. I know it's early but her personality is slowly starting to show.

Here's a pic for the week:

11 weeks

Weight: 15.6

It's been a busy week so I didn't have much time to add what we've been up to. Lauren's doing great. She sleeps in her own room every night but now wakes at 2/2:30 and then again at 6/6:30. Her bedtime used to be 9pm, but she's started slowly creeping earlier and now she goes down at 8pm. I've started to figure out her routine, at least in the mornings. After 6:30 most of the time she'll go back to sleep until 8am. Then she's awake for an hour, naps for an hour, wakes for an hour, takes another hour nap and then it's the afternoon and depending on the day she either sleeps a lot or not at all. Either way she's always ready for bed by 8pm.

I started running again a few weeks ago and am loving it. Not only do I enjoy the running but I love how each time I feel less tired and can go further. I'm not at 177lbs. Still have 17lbs pre Lauren pregnancy and 27 pre Hailey to lose but I've lost 23lbs so far.

Here's a pic for the week

10 weeks

Weight:  15.4 lbs (that's over 1 lbs this week!!)

We're in double digits! Wow how time has flown by. Lauren now sleeps from 9 until 4/5 am depending on the night. I'll feed/change her and put her back to bed and she then sleep for another 4 hours. Because Lauren's started skipping 2 feeds I woke up that first night very sore and needing to pump as Lauren only fed from one side. I've decided to keep this up and donate my excess milk.  BC has the only human milk bank left in Canada (or so the website says.) I know how great breast milk is for babies, especially sick babies and I think back to Hailey and what if I couldn't produce enough milk for her. That's part of my motivation to do this. Truthfully that's what makes me stay up at 5am to pump when all I want to do is sleep!

Tonight we've moved Lauren into her own room. Dan has been fighting a cough for  2 weeks and although it's much better he still occasionally wakes her up.  Lauren refuses to sleep in her crib during the day so I'm also hoping sleeping in there at night will allow her to feel ok sleeping in the crib during the day.
Honestly it terrifies me her being in another room. I know it says that having a baby in your room for the first 6 months helps reduce the chances of SIDS but Lauren's outgrowing her bassinet quickly and there isn't enough space in our room to set up the crib. I also believe that because they don't know what causes it you can do everything to reduce the risk but if it's going to happen it will happen. It took 45 minutes to get her down and me sitting in the rocker near her bed to get her to settle but she's finally asleep. I'm interested to see if this will change her sleeping habits and if she'll wake up earlier.

9 weeks

Weight: 14.3lbs
Height: 60.2 cm

It's been mostly another uneventful week. Lauren had her 2 month shots yesterday. Wow, I can't believe my baby's 2 months old! Time seems to be flying by since she arrived but to keep it in perspective it hasn't even been a year since I found out I was pregnant again. She got a bit of a fever last night (38.3) so we gave her tylenol. She's been doing ok. She was very clingy and wouldn't eat much but that seems to have gone away now.

I looked at some old posts on the blog this weekend. It's really nice to look back and see how far we've come. I read one I wrote about how I we were thinking of starting to try again but I was worried about being too pregnant at my sister's wedding. The part that was really got to me was how I'd written that I was thinking of starting to try again and not wait because what if October was our month to get pregnant and have a healthy baby. I'm so glad we tried that month. Who would've thought that October really was our month and that I'd be sitting here now with my 2 month old. I'm so thankful for her. She's amazing. She'll never replace Hailey and I still think of her everyday but it's nice when I have those moments of sadness to look at Lauren and know she wouldn't be here if Hailey had been healthy. Double edge sword but I guess that's how life works sometimes. I'd to chose and I wouldn't be able to. I love them both so much and wish they could both be here now. It's funny because when I found out I was pregnant with Hailey I was so worried about having twins and yet here I am 2 years later wishing we had 2 babies in the house.

At the moment I'm working on trying to get Lauren to nap in her crib. She's still in the basinet in our room at night but I'd like her to get used to the crib so I try to get her to nap in it during the day. So far no luck. I'll put her in asleep and she'll wake up 5 minutes later and start crying. Then we start the whole process over again. I'm hoping perseverance is the key on this one! Hopefully next week I'll be able to say that she now naps in the crib.