Holly Was Three Months Old Yesterday!

Holly turned three months old yesterday. This post is a day late because I needed Marcus’ help uploading some pictures (something in that process is not currently working on my computer), and he was unavailable. But here we are now!           The first quarter of Holly’s first year has gone by so fast. Her two month check up seems like it was last week, and I am guessing time will really fly after the holidays. Next thing you know, she’ll be six months old (on March 6 — my birthday!) and soon after that she’ll be mobile, and before I realize it she’ll be scrambling up the stairs. It all happened so fast with Emrick, and it’s going so fast with Holly, too!

Things are going well, although we seem to be in a bit of a rough patch this week in terms of Holly’s sleep. Funny enough, we recently took a trip to California for Thanksgiving, and I had been really worried that all that time in the car would mess with her sleep schedule (a schedule which is more loose and approximate than it is rigid and exact, but it is still reliable in that I can count on a good long nap from her every day and I can count on her sleeping for most of the night). However, the trip didn’t seem to faze her at all. In fact, in the hotel on the way back home last Saturday night, she slept a record eight and a half hours straight with nary a whimper. I thought maybe she was on the verge of outgrowing her nighttime feedings altogether. But nope! For the past three nights she has been waking up every 1-2 hours. I think the main problem is that she is now stronger than her swaddling wrap. She can break it open if she squirms and shimmies her arms enough. But even re-wrapping her hasn’t been enough to re-settle her after every awakening. She has actually insisted on being fed at those wakings, when she hasn’t fed at short intervals during the night in more than a month.

Anyway, I remember Emrick hit a rough patch at about this time too. He wasn’t as good at breaking the swaddle as Holly is, but it did become less effective in keeping him asleep at around three months. And then at 3.5 months he rolled over onto his belly for the first time while asleep and swaddled in the crib — and just like that, his swaddlin’ days was over (name that movie!). So Holly may be ready to move on from the swaddle soon, which means she has to learn to sleep without it, which means a couple of months of struggle, probably. Ah well.

Holly weighs about 12 pounds and measures at just barely 24 inches. I am sure these stats put her firmly in the ballpark of the 50th percentile, but in a family of 1 percentilers, I like to think of her as our little giant.

We love you, Holly Belle. You’re our sweet, sweeeeet girl. ~muah!~