This last week has seen us formally introduce forumla as a permanent part of Mia's diet. She is still breastfeeding, but we theorized that she just couldn't get enough to eat with that alone, so we now supplement every feeding within some formula from a bottle. A few days into this practice it was clear that our theory had some merit. After the combination of breastfeeding and formula, Mia just seems far more satisfied and has far fewer and shorter fussy periods. She still has them, but they are more obviously just fussy periods and not hunger periods. We can deal with that, but it was hard to watch her upset with hunger.
The only other real development this week was that we moved Mia to her crib to sleep (she had been in the bassinet in our bedroom). This has probably helped Ashlei and I more than it has had any effect on Mia. When she was in the room with us we would wake up with every little movement that she made when most of the time she was just shifting or bouncing around her sleep cycles. Now, we actually sleep for the entire time that she sleeps for. The slightly longer sleeping stretches that are an apparent side effect of formula feeding are a nice bonus as well.
Mia also got her first pieces of government mail this week... her social security card and birth registration notice (apparently they no longer give you the actual birth certificate).
As a closing note, the baby scale that Matt and Lisa lent us registers Mia at around 8 1/4 pounds, so she is definitely gaining weight (reminder: 7 1/8 pounds at birth)
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