Bethany is 1 month old!

Wow, time goes so fast! On Saturday Bethany turned 1 month old. Then the next day on Sunday the 29th it was her official due date! They had changed it from the 24th to the 29th so she was 4.5 weeks early.

It has been fun getting to know Bethany and her personality. She's been doing much better sleeping at night and I usually only have to get up once between 11 p.m.-7 a.m. to feed her. She is much more alert and when she is focused enough to look at our faces we can tell she follows our eyes if we move. We are having her try tummy time at least once a day and she's doing really well holding her head up and switching her head from side to side to look both ways. She still loves her baths and also sitting in her bouncy seat with the bathroom fan on when I take a shower in the morning. Her little awake squeaks and noises have more sound to them now, at first she just had her mouth open and faster breathing but now we can identify more coo's.

We are still a little concerned about her jaundice levels. They have not gone down yet so we have another apt today to do more blood work that they will analyze with Children's specialty doctors to see what we should do next. They aren't dangerously high levels, but moderate so they want to keep an eye on her. Hopefully I'll have good news today or at least an action plan.

Dan's birthday was last week and then we celebrated Thanksgiving at my sisters house. It is fun to spend time with family and friends now that Bethany is here. She is very popular and I never have a lack of people wanting to hold her for me if I need to get something done when we are with family.

Last week Linnea came over to take pictures of Bethany. It was our second try as the first time Bethany was a little hungry so this time I had her well fed and warm with a space heater in the room. I think Linnea and I wished we were dressed for summer though - it was hot in there! Linnea took so many wonderful pictures but I picked a few cute ones from each outfit to share... Thanks Linnea!