Ella has been busy growing and changing. Her latest development is that she's starting to smile in response, although you have to work for it and sometimes, it just comes down to luck. The past few nights when Daddy gets her up to eat, she gives Mommy a huge grin - totally worth being awake at 3 am! She loves to focus on our faces and is alert much more than in the past few weeks. We love seeing those beautiful blue eyes!
We also visited the pediatrician today for her 1 month checkup. Overall, she is doing great and is healthy. She weighed in at 8 lbs 1.2 oz. She is staying true to herself - while she is growing, they'd like to see her gain a little bit more weight. Sound familiar to any of my woes during pregnancy? She gained 9 oz. since our last visit, which was 20 days ago. By the books, the pediatrician would have like to see her gain an ounce a day, or 20 oz., so we did fall a little short. I'm pretty sure my milk production is good and she's been eating lots on a pretty routine schedule, so we're going to try to push it even more and we'll go for another weight check in two weeks. The doctor isn't too concerned yet, but wants to stay on top of things. Length and head circumference all checked in good. The doctor was impressed with how alert and happy Ella seemed!
Finally, Ella made her first trip to mommy's school today to meet all of her adoring (adult) fans. No kids today, so all of mommy's friends had lots of time to ooh and ahh over Ella. Although a little fussy, she seemed to love the attention and was alert and bright-eyed for most of our visit. While I miss seeing everyone, can't say that I miss the "work" part too much - but who would with a beautiful baby at home? :)
