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@josina: awesome growth and sleep!

We don't have our one month appointment until almost 6 weeks, which I am totally irritated about. He's big though. Definitely over 10 and possibly near to 12. We'll see. Appointment is next Wednesday.

Newborn clothes are officially done here. I have just enough 0-3 stuff if it warms up soon!

@Ajsmommy: good luck tomorrow!

@Ajsmommy: hope your appointment goes well tomorrow!
@gilmoregirl: sucks your appt. Is so late but glad you're confident about his weight gain. Sounds like a big boy.
@maggierose: yes, so nice, and to know it's fine she only nurses 6-10 min. at a time and that I don't need to push both sides. Her brother was a chunker but she's already beating his weight at that age.
Sounds like your girl is gaining well too despite being teeny!

@maggierose: growth is good! And sleep! My guys have both gained weight fast early but B slowed waaay down after 3-4 months. No chunky babes here either - long string beans.

@gilmoregirl: oh totally. Two nights ago I was complaining about the newborn fussiness that was going on hour 4. Last night I was snuggling her with tears in my eyes telling my husband I want to keep her this tiny forever! It's notnhelping that DD1 is turning two on Tuesday so I'm feeling nostalgic and a bit heartbroken at how quickly her first two years have gone!

@Ajsmommy: hooray! Congrats on some good growth. How are things going? Have you guys gotten back into a routine?

@Ajsmommy: that is awesome! So great to hear T is growing so well!

@gilmoregirl: seriously! It's like we're on a fast track to her going to university. Hahaha.

T will be almost 3 months before he gets in for his 2 month appointment. Part of this is because he needs to wait at least a month from today before they will schedule. But then it's another week and a half before I could get in with his doctor. I realllly like this particular doctor but apparently he has become popular. We started seeing him 2 years ago when he was new and I knew then he was going to get more popular...I miss when he was easy to schedule! I'm tempted to try another doc, but I really love our current doc, so I don't know.

@Ajsmommy: I somehow missed all the updates here! Glad T is doing well! Awesome weight gain and growth!

As for us J seems to be taking after big bro and is growing like a weed length wise, he's up by over 3 inches since birth! Both kiddos weighed in exactly the same yesterday at 9lbs and 1oz. So they're up 4 lbs since birth. Crazy how big they have become! They don't have any newborn features anymore, they're little babies now!

@Pumuckl: thanks, that is my gut too, I just hate that it's so difficult to schedule with him. There are other docs in the practice that I like too, but there are things that only this doctor does that I like (such as doing exams while my toddler sits on my lap) that make me want to stick with him.

@Pumuckl: do you have long babies too? T is outgrowing clothes because he is soo long. Big brother was also like that, but it evened out somewhere around 18 months because he is not tall now. I'm interested to see where T ends up.

@Ajsmommy: maybe the scale was slightly off in one direction? Like if he was super wiggly? But a pound doesn't sound impossible in that time frame with growth spurts etc. hope you continue to get good news from the cardiologist!

@gilmoregirl: Does your LO take a pacifier? I've been putting the pacifier almost in place, squirting it in the back of her cheek, then pushing the pacifier all the way in so she starts sucking on it and swallows the medicine. Otherwise she spits it right out!

@gilmoregirl: I have long and peanut sized babies B has always been above the 95% for weight and height. J1 is around the 20% max. So J2 has overtaken F in length a couple of weeks ago. He was shorter than her by a inch!

@gilmoregirl: yes I find it kind of funny that they are most similar to their same sex siblings. It'll be scary to feed these two boys as teenagers B is around 43-44 inches currently and 46lbs. He'll turn 4 in two weeks time. Although he got quite the headstart since he was over 8lbs at birth and 22.75"! Hope the trying the paci will eventually lead to T taking it. We somehow do fine with the names for the boys but both of us have often confused the girls...

@Ajsmommy: I would also say it might well be that he really gained this much. Mine gain around 9oz per week. And B once gained a whooping pound a week, so can totally happen. Glad the cardiologist appointment went well and definitely keeping my fingers crossed that the hole closes. Is he on medication for it or is just wait and see for now? I was wondering why the hole wasn't caught in the u/s during pregnancy - wouldn't it have shown up on the doppler at the anatomy scan? Please excuse if that's a supid question...

@Ajsmommy: that's so interesting about it never being seen. Hope you do find closure (in all meanings of the word) soon.

@Ajsmommy: I didn't even consider it that way, but yeah, definitely good regardless. Both of my boys have made jumps like that at times so it is definitely possible even if it seems like a lot. What a bummer that they didn't catch the hole with all of that monitoring. Is there anything you could have done sooner? It would certainly have been nice to know about.

. @Pumuckl: ha, my B was 8.5 lbs ans 22 inches at birth and slowed way down! He's only 3 but is like 30 lbs and 36 inches? I'm guessing though. He was always 80-90% and then dropped to being 40%. It must be so fun with your kids to see who is similar and different and in what ways. I'm enjoying it so much with my two little guys.

J had her 4 week check up today with the midwives (at 5 weeks old 🙄) and she's doing great! She was 9lbs 2oz, so she's gained 1lb 15oz in 3 weeks. I was floored, because DD1 was such a slow grower due to her reflux. So far, they have been very different babies! We've had a fussy couple of days, today especially. She barely slept longer than 20 minutes at each nap, but after picking up big sis after daycare she was sound asleep in the car seat. I left her in there while I cooked dinner, played with DD1, did the dishes and put DD1 to bed and she's still asleep as I type this! It's only been a 3h nap, but this is usually when she's up and super fussy, so I'm being thrown for a bit of a loop! Babies are so unpredictable!

@Ajsmommy: Did different people do the scans or was it always the same person?

I am having significantommy brain lately. Anyone else? I am repeating myself, forgetting what I'm doing I the middle or it, switching words around. It makes me feel crazy. I'm pretty organized normally, so it is really disorienting to feel so scattered.

@gilmoregirl: I have mega mommybrain. Sometimes I just trail off in the middle of a sentence because I lose my thought! It's amazing though... I can remember the tiniest details with regards to some things, but other things just slip out of my brain.

@gentlelunette: Doing well! We had our 2-month checkup yesterday, A is gaining nicely, 10 pounds 13 oz. We started prevacid for her reflux, just a tiny bit once a day until she's 10 weeks old and then they can increase the dose, so we'll see if that helps. Continuing with the zantac in the afternoon and evening. The worst part about the meds is that we need to wait 30 minutes before feeding her. She doesn't like that!

She still has some feeds that are a bit of a struggle, and she's sometimes quite fussy in the evenings (though I guess that's normal for a 7-8 week old anyway), but I feel much better now that I know she's getting enough to eat.

She's been smiling a lot and even laughing a bit, it's so cute. Her sleep is very good at the moment, a 5 hour stretch is normal followed by a couple hours. She gave us another 7 hour stretch last night, her third one (not in a row though). I've been putting her down for naps in the crib, swaddled (for her first two naps of the day at least), and it's been working very well. She often needs the pacifier to fall asleep again when she comes out of her first sleep cycle, but if we push through (and reinsert her pacifier 500 times) we generally get a nice long nap in the crib now.

I hope everyone else is doing well!

Things are going well here. They still sleep a lot, eat 5 times a day and gaining weight well.
I must admit though that feeding two is physically way more exhausting than I thought it would be. It's also hard when you're feeding one child and the other is crying all throughout it. We have our 1st round of vaccines coming up this Friday- yuck.