3 Farts, 2 Burps & A Dribble

For the last few weeks we have been having trouble getting any wind out of AJ. She was uncomfortable a lot but wouldn't burp. We did get quite a lot of dribbling and projectile though! She went to the doc this week for her first shot, general check up and some advice on the milk/wind issue.

First things first, the little glutton has put on over two pounds in as many weeks, and she is now 11lb 5oz. She is 22" long, which, when correlated with her age and weight, puts her in the 95th percentile. Bizarrely though, her head is only in the 75th percentile.

The doc said she was developing well, starting to support her own head a little already, and all of those skin blemishes you can see in the pictures are apparently normal. The long and short of the milk issue, is that we have changed to a new product especially for fussy and gassy babies, I wonder if Lorraine needed this when she was a child, or maybe now, although she has no problem passing gas. it seems to run in her family, as her sister Madeleine is similarly afflicted!

Lorraine has been a trooper getting up every night and leaving me to sleep, and then I try to take my duties in the evening and on the weekends. AJ is still very grumpy in the evenings, and so that is not much fun, as nothing seems to calm her down most nights. However the weekends are awesome.

I took her for the 7am feed this morning, and afterwards brought her downstairs to let mum sleep for a few more hours. I changed her VERY SMELLY nappy (diaper), which seems to have gotten greener and smellier with the new formula; then we got all suited up, and went for a walk, the three of us, whilst mum slept.

When we got back from the walk I made a Scottish delicacy called tablet, did some cleaning, washing up, tidying, making bottles, etc and was just getting done with the next feed before going for the lunchtime walk, when mum woke up, so we all went for a family walk together.

As usual, lots of pictures here, although some very similar ones. I had the camera on continuous to catch the smile, and catch it I did. AJ and I will be hanging out together tomorrow too, cos mum is off to a baby shower, so there is lots of daddy time this weekend. What a great way to spend the weekend!

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