She is one month old!
We love having her in our family and she gets plenty of love from her older brothers and sisters.
She came with her own challenges and blessings.
Challenges: weight gain- we did 3 days of weight checks before it she was having good weight gain. At weeks she had regained her birth weight plus 2 ounces.
She also had to have her bilirubin checked for 3 days but it resolved too. She has a pretty color to her skin thanks to the jaundice.
And finally she has not been my best nurser but we have worked on it and things are better. Thank you to the lactation specialist, herbal supplements, and lactation cookies.
Story about cookies: they are a basic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie with added flaxseed and brewer's yeast to boost your milk. The kids enjoyed them and Peter sent them in lunches one day. Jon offered some to his teacher with a promise that it would help her milk. She said she was good but he assured her it would help. She again said no thanks- her youngest is 10 so I am sure she is not worried about her milk!
Blessings are: she sleeps for a 4-5 hour block of time almost every night since she came home. It has been the most helpful thing being she is number 5. Another blessing is that the kids are really helpful and love her to pieces.
Story: Lily pushed the rocking chair over to the bassinet and picked Samantha up out of her bassinet and carried her down the stairs when Samantha was just 5 days old. Angels were in our house that day. Lily would not listen to me telling her that she could not do that. She just kept saying over and over "I did it Mommy." We have since had a few conversations about what she can and can not do with "Manfa" as she calls her. And we put a child lock on our door so that she can not get to Samantha when she is sleeping in her bassinet and we are elsewhere in the house.
We love you Samantha/ Manfa/ Munchkin!
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