3 Weeks

How can Reese be 3 weeks old already??? Time is already flying by. Slowly but surely, we're starting to feel like we know what the heck we're doing!

This week has been a good week. On Wednesday night, Reese started sleeping in 4 hour stretches at night. We are really hoping this continues, because 4 hours of consecutive sleep is WONDERFUL. She's starting to have more alert time during the day, which is really fun. I still sit & stare at her all day, but now she stares back! She's starting to focus on objects and faces, so we've started playing on her Baby Einstein activity mat as well.

Reese's biggest milestone this week was receiving her first bottle feeding. The pediatrician recommended waiting no longer than 3 weeks to introduce the bottle, so Matt fed her a bottle of pumped milk on Friday night. It was exciting for him to be able to feed her!

Since I'm nursing, we don't really know how many ounces she's taking at a feeding. I tried to do some online research ahead of time to figure out how many ounces of milk to thaw out, and everything I read suggested that a baby her age would probably be eating about 2-3 ounces at each feeding, so I thawed 3 ounces to be safe. She went to town, and sucked down that 3 ounce bottle in about 5 minutes. That was with a newborn slow flow nipple! Matt burped her, & she was STILL rooting around looking for food, so I ended up having to nurse her as well! We couldn't believe it. She's a little piglet!!!