Emily Update

     Well, my little peanut is not so little anymore.  I stopped by my work yesterday on an outing to get vitamin D drops (you are suppose to supplement if you are breast feeding). She is almost 6 weeks old now so I figured it was time to start.  I had waited because I wanted her nursing well before we added something new and she already takes so much medicine during the day (baby zantac three times a day and gas drops 2-3 times a day).  I was hesitating to give her one more thing - but she needs them, so we started yesterday.  But back to my original thought, Emily is now 8 lbs and 1 oz.  The nurse in me had to figure out how many grams per day since her last weigh in.  Turns out that she is up 25 grams/day since her last weight check, that does not mean much to many of you, but its amazing progress!  I am so happy with her weight gain, which ideally is 30 grams/day in the beginning, but goes down as they get older.  25 grams is the biggest weight gain per day for Emily yet (she started out at 4 gm/day). 

She is still small for her age, at the 10-15th percentile for weight and wearing all newborn clothes with room to grow, but she's doing great! 

Here are some recent pictures, from the last week.  I try to post pictures frequently on our Shutterfly share site.  The link is on the right, the password is sugarandspice.  I selected the option for being a password protected site and did not post the password before and was just giving it out as people asked.  Like I mentioned before, I have become much more paranoid since becoming a mother. I've had this fear that strangers would read my blog and get access to the pictures and figure out where we lived.  I can go on and on...but I guess that won't really happen...