These aren't the most glamorous photos of Evelyn, taken on Sept. 1 when she was a month old, but this was the best I could do! All the Deterding kids get pretty severe infant acne around 2 weeks old, and it's just now starting to clear up a little. As you can see, she also has adorable bed-head issues and is great at sticking out her tongue!
At one month, Evelyn is very alert and is always trying to hold her head up to look around. Her favorite place to be is in someone's arms while swaddled and being bounced. I had mastitis when she was four weeks old, so our feeding times and schedules were messed with while we tried to recover. For now, she's waking twice during the night (the second time usually around 4:30 or 5 am) and takes a loooong time to nurse! Last night she ate at 10:30 pm while her Mommy and Daddy listened to the
Orioles clinch the AL East Title, then slept all the way until 4:30am-- there was great rejoicing! During the day she's eating every 2.5 - 3 hours.
At her checkup she was 8 lbs. 10.5 oz. (25-50th percentile) and 21.25 inches long (50th percentile). Her weight gain is steady but not as fast as the "experts" say it should be, so I'm back to praying for adequate weight gain for the third child in a row. It's a tad frustrating for me, when all seems to be going well until I lay my babies on the doctor's scale. Petite Deterding genes aside, I wouldn't mind seeing some rolls appear without the help of formula!
I'm happy that I'm writing so many details down here on the blog (bear with me) because I just recently noticed that I barely kept track of Jane's first 2 years of life and I need to do better for this child!!
