5 Day old check up:
Weight = 6lbs 10oz - 15th Percentile
Height = 19 1/2 - 41st Percentile
Head = 13 1/2 " - 29th Percentile
No signs of Jaundice
Eating and pooping machine!
Clean bill of health
Mother, oh Mother, come shake out your cloth
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing and butter the bread,
Sew on a button and make up a bed.
Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.
Oh, I've grown shiftless as Little Boy Blue
(lullaby, rock-a-bye, Lullaby loo).
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
(pat-a-cake, darling, and peek-peek-a-boo).
The shopping is not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there is a hullabaloo.
But I'm playing "Kanga" and this is my "Roo."
Look! Aren't her eyes the most wonderful hue?
(lullaby, rock-a-bye, lullaby loo).
The cleaning and scrubbing will wait till tomorrow,
For children grow up, as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs. Dust go to sleep.
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.
Ruth Hulburt Hamilton, 1958
The morning after Andie was born, a nurse came into the room to do some standard poking and prodding. As she unwrapped her she cautioned us to be careful where we laid her, and asked if we'd noticed she rolls. Dan and I exchanged confused looks. "Rolls?"
"Yep", she said "watch"... she laid her on her back and sure enough she rolled over not quite to her tummy.
Then at home when she was 5 days old Dan put Andie on a blanket for some "tummy time" which she did not like at all. She was getting very frustrated, so she lifted herself up on her arms and rolled to her back where she was much happier. I wouldn't have believed it, had I not watched it. I'm sure it was one of those fluke things, but the girl definitely has some good muscle control.
She wakes about every 2 1/2 - 3 hours at night, but (minus one cranky night) she will eat really good, poop and go back to sleep. Awesome!
We are all hopelessly enamored by our little gift from Heaven.
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