Pictures Updated and Daphne Growing Quickly!

Well, I updated the pictures page.

Daphne now fits into her 3-9 month old clothing. She fits in it a little too well, actually. Which means I actually should have had her wearing it about a week or so ago! I need to go looking for 9-12 month clothing! Or maybe she will slow down.

Today, Daphne will get her 2-month immunizations. I'll write how that goes. The appointment is at 3:10pm.

The end.

First Time, Thumb in Mouth

Today is the first time I've seen Daphne Jade put her thumb in her mouth! She actually did it. But then she gagged.

Now she is trying to eat her fist!

Sling Miracle!

Thank the Lord Daphne is one of the kids who like to being in the sling. I was worried she wouldn't be, but I was so glad when she took to it! AHHHHHHHH! Now I can go places! Hooray!

She sucks her hands now, too!

Daphne now eats her hands now! She had been trying to do it for a long time, and now she's finally got a hang of it! What a cool kid, indeed!

She Smiled at Me!

Today, she was lying quietly on my lap, and I said hello to her and asked her how she was doing. You know what she did?? SHE SMILED AT ME!! I got really excited and started to kiss her all over and then she smiled again! and again! I'm absolutely certain that those were real smiles! She's made faces before that resembled smiles, but I doubted if the truly were. I really don't think they were. But these smiles were real!! YAY!

What happened?!

I just finally got Daphne to sleep at 3:00am! What happened to being able to sleep through the night, Daphne?? WHAT HAPPENED?! I'm going to read about babies and schedules.

Breastfeeding is WONDERFUL!

I never, NEVER, NEVER, never, never, never, never, NEVER EVER, NEVER EVER thought I'd EVER admit it, but breastfeeding is seriously the coolest thing in the world. I absolutely DREADED it in the beginning. I remember at the hospital, breastfeeding the baby for the first time. The first time, actually, wasn't all that bad. I don't even remember if I was doing it correctly, but I remember it not hurting. However, the next several feedings WERE EXCRUCIATING. I would ABSOLUTLY DREADED feedings. I tried and tried and tried, but it was so painful, I couldn't stand it. I would struggle to remain calm to unlatch the baby with my pinkie, but the pain was sooooooo intense, I'd just pull her off. What made this worse was that Daphne had low-high risk of case of potential jaundice. BLEH! So she was bottlefed formula. Probably, over the course of her entire life, Daphne has drank 150 fluid ounces of formula, give or take. I am determined to let that amount be the only amount she ever eats, EVER.

She went cold turkey on bottles when Daphne was about 2 weeks old, and it was SO hard. My nipples weren't sore anymore, but they were still tender, and she still hadn't learned to latch on quickly. She was latching on correctly, just not quickly enough. There were so many times after I said good riddance to formula did was I tempted to fetch a bottle. It was JUST SO HARD. She'd struggle to find my nipple and when she couldn't find it immediately, she'd start to cry! Sometimes, she'd be inconsolable. There were times when Eman was even tempted to give her the bottle. But I was SOOO determined. I rationalized that the tenderness was BOUND to go away sometime, and I had no excuse not to breastfeed. There are hundreds of women who have had harder time trying to breastfeed that I had, so there was absolutely no excuse. It was hard for me because I was impatient, and I constantly thought, what would that mean if I gave up on breastfeeding because I am impatient? It's not like I had anything else that demanded my time. I wasn't going to work, I wasn't going to school. I had no legitimate reason. So I kept trying and kept trying. Slowly but surely, I stopped dreading feeding her and the pain subsided.

Now she is a purely breastfed baby. Thinking back on it, it would have been so difficult for me to bottlefeed her. I'd have to get up, prepare formula, warm it up. I actually think what really did it for me though, what convinced me to go cold turkey, was that I'd pass on antibodies to her and that there was almost a zero percent chance that she'd get diarrhea or become constipated due to bacteria in the bottles or making formula too concentrated.

Yep. Now it's time for a diaper change.

Current Sleeping Habits and Weight...

I forgot to mention that Daphne Can now sleep through the night, meaning she can go for 6 hours!!!!! Yipee! Ah, the advantages of having a fat baby.

Also, last time she was weighed... She was 14 pounds! But she had clothes on, so I'm not too sure of it's accuracy. But I very much doubt she had 2 pounds worth of clothes. So I guess she's around 13 pounds and a couple of ounces.

Oh, My Little Daphne Jade

I wish you could talk so you can tell me when you're ready for me to re-start school.

Hmm...

When Daphne Poos...

When Daphne Jade goes poo-poo, she purses her lips real tight and makes an "O." I want to take a picture of it, but I never get to!

Oh yeah, since yesterday, she can now push her own farts/poo out!

SHE'S SO AWESOME-BA-BOSSUM!

Update!

Re-uploaded pictures and added some more! Go check it out!

Lifts and Holds Head Up...

I've been very delinquent about blogger Daphne's many accomplishments!

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BUT--NOW, she lifts her head up and holds herself up on her forearms. She has been doing this though, for the past two weeks. I'm sad because I can't recall the exact date.

I've been neglecting this blog. I need to re-upload those pictures. I'm still wondering where they went. Eman said he was moving directories and they were deleted during the GREAT DELETE, but that doesnt explain why that one picture was left along with the page, and this page, as a matter of fact.

For all those who care and because I feel bad about it, I will tell you what the GREAT DELETE was. It was when Eman was moving directories and I distracted him, so he claims, and deleted the directory with all his MUSIC AND MOVIES AND ALLLLLLLLLL OUR OLD, OLD PICTURES among other things. But if he was like us, normal computer illiterate people, I later realized, and moved that directory by dragging all those files to where he wanted instead of using that stupid terminal thing (which, by the way, he's refusing to teach me how to use), this wouldn't even have been an issue. But alas, he thinks its so cool to type in a string of commands (which actually does seem cool [I am dumb]), so here we are.

Daphne also makes lots and lots of noises. UGH! and I forgot to blog about that one day Eman was holding her, said something nonsensical, and she took a deep breath and said,"gaaaaaay." And it didnt stop there! She proceeded and said gay again except with not so much emphasis on the "a."

DAPHNE JADE, YOU ARE SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

::Laughs Out Loud:: Silly Daphne...

Today, Daphne farted and was startled by her own fart!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was hilarious!

I LOVE HER!