Journey of Baby Gifford: One Month Old

One Month Old 1-17-2011

It doesn't seem possible that Kiya is already a month old, wow time sure does fly by. She is growing so much the other day we upgraded her diapers from new born to size one made me kind of sad and she has already out grown some of her clothes. She is such a good baby only cries when she is hungry and it isn't that loud of a cry, she sure loves to grub down ad fill her pants. She is a really good sleeper she loves sleeping on me or beside me and when I am really tired she sleeps pretty good in her co- sleeper by the bed but we both like to cuddle. She is very alert and strong always moving and making noises and can hold her head up really high for a long time and look around or stare at mommy. I can stare at her forever and hear her little grunts and noises, she is such a loud sleeper, eater, going to the bathroom everything she does is loud I love it.

When we first brought her home grandma and grandpa stayed with us for a week, which was a lot of help they cleaned, made meals, helped with Kiya and kept us company. The second day we were home we had a nurse come in and make sure everything was still going good with her she lost 10% of her body fat went down to 7.5 pounds so she made us a drs appointment for the next day, xmas eve. While we were there we found out that she was down 12% of her body fat so they had me feed her and after she gained 2 ounces so there was no concern at all. Ever since then she has been a piggy and plumping out, we call her ziggy piggy, she is starting to get some really cute rolls our chunky monkey. We had 3 dr appointment with in a week and 2 of them they had to draw blood it was harder on me and daddy had to be in the room holding her while I hide in the waiting room but she is is a really healthy baby and we will not be back to the dr for another month to endure shots. We did have Christmas Eve at our house, it was a lot of fun with family and everyone was so happy to see and hold Kiya. I didn't have to do anything well no one would let me so all the cooking and cleaning was done by Roger and his parents. We had Christmas morning at our house with Rogers parents, Roger went to build a bear and made mommy cuddle bear and baby cuddle bear for us and bought Kiya a christmas bear it was so cute. This was the first year I didn't go all out on gifts my big gift to everyone was a baby I thought that was big enough. We went to Rogers grandparents for Christmas again it was alot of fun being around family. We had New Years at our house, Rogers parents, cousin and grandparents came over we played games and watched a movie Kiya and I actually stayed up past New Years as we sipped on blueberry cider rather the champaign. Besides the holidays we have been pretty chill staying in we are pretty lazy and spend most of or days cuddling in bed, I can not help but hold her all the time. We have had some outings to the dr and a few shopping trips and out to dinner with grandma and grandpa she didn't like that I was eating with out her and got fussy towards the end. I have only been out 3 times alone with her, I much rather stay in then have her out in the cold. We will be starting or limber babies yoga class on Sun where we will be singing doing yoga and meeting other parents I'm really looking forward to it. I have been healing really good still a little sore but I can move around and get a lot of stuff done now, the first week was a little rough and got a lot better after as the weeks went on. I only gained 24 pounds in the pregnancy and already down 26 pounds 2 pounds less then when I got pregnant I'm doing pretty good with eating right and breast feeding. I can not wait to get the ok to start exercising and get back into shape.

Well this month has been amazing and life changing I feel Roger and I have become closer, he has been great taking care of the two of us. I love so much being a mommy as Roger loves being a daddy we just can not get enough of Kiya. My heart still melts every time I look at her I just wish time would slow down a little but I am sure not missing a beat I will always hold her close so I don't miss a thing.