Kayla's Stats

We went to the doctor yesterday and Kayla has grown some since last time. She's 24" tall/long and 13 lbs 9.6 oz. They measure her head too every time, I'm not sure why, and her head is 16 1/8". We asked the doctor about her drooling all the time and she told us that it was normal and she didn't see any teeth buds yet. When we asked about her sleeping patterns we were basically told we were enabling her because she doesn't need to eat at night for 8 hours and she needs to learn to fall asleep on her own which she can't do if we keep rocking her to sleep. So last night was our first night of "tough love." We put her down before she was asleep and let her cry until she settled down and went to sleep herself. She woke up once around midnight and I picked her up for a few minutes then put her down again and she eventually fell back to sleep. Then she woke up around 2am and we let her scream for about 10 minutes but then decided we should feed her since it had been about 5 hours since she ate and the last time she ate she had barely had 2oz out of her 5oz bottle. After we fed her she went back to sleep until 5am and then we decided to have her sleep with us in bed since she had fallen asleep at like 4:30pm and was probably done sleeping if we didn't hold her. Around 6am she woke up again and we put her in her crib and turned on her battery operated mobile (one of the best baby accessories ever for us!) to entertain her and we went back to sleep for about an hour. The doctor said it would take about a week and a half to get her on a good routine but only waking 4 times in the night is still WAY better than what she had been doing before so we're moving in the right direction!