Mar 05 2008
Time Flies
Time flies (except between the hours of 12am - 4am when Sydney forgets how to sleep). I was going to post this message on Monday but that came and went and so did Tuesday. Anyway back to what I wanted to talk about - typically babies lose between 5 and 10% of their birth weight in the first few days due to fluid loss (hey, they were swimming for the past 9 months) and they usually gain that back within the first 10 to 14 days. Anyway, on Monday Sydney turned 1 week old and had a follow up appointment at the hospital so they could check her weight. She weighed 6 lbs 14 oz at birth (on Monday) and on Friday she weighed 6 lbs 9 oz which was right at 5% weight loss. Her checkup two days ago had her at 6 lbs 15 oz already! They were more than happy and told us not to change anything we were doing and that we didn’t need to come back again. Just the normal checkups with her pediatrician done at the doctors office.
Anyway, I hear her crying so I better go do my nightly duty and keep her occupied so Andrea can get some sleep. I’ll upload some new pictures tomorrow (or later today as the case may be).
