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.

8 weeks

Weight: 13.6lbs

Well since I posted yesterday there's not much to add. I guess I'll just talk about our journey with cloth diapers. We used disposables for the first 2 weeks. I wasn't too sure what to do with the cord and then I wasn't sure if she'd fit in the diapers since they're all one size. I absolutely LOVE them. Everyone thought it wouldn't take long for me to not like having to clean them and deal with the poo but it's not a big deal with the washing and honestly there's not much difference in wrapping up the diaper to throw away and taking it apart and putting it in a bag. What we have decided is that we like the velcro a lot better then the snaps. We started off with 12 bum genius 4 (velcro) and 12 charlie banana (snaps).

Lauren pee's ALOT. Sometimes I'm not even sure how she could possibly fit that much liquid into her tiny body. The problem with this is that the diapers have started leaking. The charlie banana diapers leak during the day and the bum genius leak at night now that she sleeps 5-6 hours. I've ordered some hemp inserts online to use as boosters but they had to be ordered by the seller so I've still got about a week to wait for them. I also ordered 6 new diapers (rumparooz) which I think I like the best although I've only used them for a week. At the moment we're using disposables at night (and sometimes those leak as well) and bum genius/rumparooz during the day.
So Dan and I agree.......we both prefer cloth.

Well bed time.
Oh and since I forgot to put a pic up yesterday of Lauren at 7 weeks I'll add 2 this week :)

Relaxing in mum and dad's bed

Good thing I tried on her halloween costume...don't think it'll fit in 5 weeks :(

7 weeks

I'm sorry I haven't done her height or weight this week and since tomorrow she's 8 weeks there's no point getting it now.

We've both had a cold this week. By we I of course me Lauren and myself. For some reason Daniel very rarely gets sick. At the moment I love looking back at Lauren just after she was born. It's hard to believe how much she's grown already. I was looking at her this afternoon and mentioned to Dan that it felt like she'd gotten bigger from this morning (if that's possible!) She's also now going 5 hours at night between feeds. She eats at 8:30/9pm and then wakes up around 2am then it's back to 3 hours in between. We've tried really hard to keep a bedtime routine. We give her a bottle at 9 and then it's straight into the bassinet after she burps. Normally she's asleep by 10.

Dan and I had that conversation I've been dreading. Basically who would care for Lauren if anything should happen. Dan said that his mum has been bugging him to go and get it legal because she says that if anything were to happen to us then she'd never see Lauren again. Her saying this infuriates me. One thing I've realized about Dan's mum is she's VERY dramatic. Also if she really felt this way then you'd think she'd of put in at least a LITTLE bit of effort to be friendly or even talk to my mum while she was out visiting.

It makes me angry because my mum would NEVER keep Lauren from Dan's parents. My mum would never keep Lauren from any family member unless she felt they were a danger to Lauren and it makes me mad that Dan's mum would imply that she would. I think my parents have shown they can put their feelings aside for what's best for children considering my parents divorced when I was 3 yet they still took us on family holidays.
Well I'm going to get back to watching the Canada/Japan rugby game.

6 weeks

Weight: 12.6 lbs
Height: 22.5"

I'm pretty sure the height in wrong. She asked me to hold the tape at her head and I thought I was pulling Lauren's hair so I was moving to try not to. Oops! But the weight is correct. She's in the 95th percentile! Lauren's smiling a lot more now although you still have to try hard to get it out of her. She's very much been cuddly this week and I found out why yesterday. We're sick! Lauren's slept quite a bit the past few days and yesterday I started to get a sore throat and over the day it turned into a nice cold. Lauren started to get stuffed up and coughing at around 1am this morning. I feel so bad for her. She doesn't whine but just lays there struggling to breath. I'm hoping she'll realize she can open her mouth and life gets a bit easier for her.

Yesterday my family had a baby shower for her. My mum decided to dress her up, but even though the dress was 3-6 months it looked more like a shirt on her then dress. Here's my fav pics this week.

She still loves her swing!

All dressed up and not feeling well