week 14

Besides her periodic growth spurt, Mak is pretty much 'on a schedule'. She wakes up around 8am, eats, stays up for 1.5-2hours and goes down for nap, sleeps for 2-2.5 hours, wakes up exactly 4 hours from previous feeding and repeats the same cycle 4 times before sleeping through the night for 8-10 hours. On some nights she sleeps for 12 hours. Eating has been going good. I was worried that she wasn't getting enough (for no particular reason, just me being worrisome) but she seems to be doing fine according to the unscientific way of weighing her. (weight of myself holding her minus my own weight). We'll know for sure when she goes in for her 4 month check up in a few weeks.

Here are some of Mak's latest accomplishments:

* Holding bottle by herself- mak has always had strong hands. Maybe it was just coincidence but at 5 days old, she held up her pacifier and prevented if from falling. Lately, she's been super helpful when it comes to feeding time by holding or attempting to hold the bottle with our help. We thought we'd try and see if she'd hold it on her own and to our surprise, she did! She even has this "one finger bottle hold" technique - where she securely holds a 4 oz bottle with one finger with one hand and one or no fingers with the other. And she somehow knows that if she lifts her arm up a little, the bottle will tilt and more milk will come out! I was so impressed! (will post a video of the one-finger bottle hold shortly)

* Falling asleep by herself - we can now put her down AWAKE and WALK AWAY!!! It's amazing how far we've come. She cries for a few minutes and goes to sleep on her own. I used to feel bad letting her cry but now I guess she's learned that when mommy & daddy puts her down in the crib, puts a blanket on her and kisses her on the cheek, that means nap/sleep time.

* Half roll over - where mak shifts her weight to one side as much as she can but not quite all the way (don't have a picture for this yet)

* Blowing bubbles with her spit