Taylor Corinne Williams was born on December 3, 2009 at 6:38am after 24 hours and 38 minutes of labor! She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces and was 20 inches long. Our lives were forever changed and it is better than we could have ever imagined!
It is hard to know where to start...Taylor has been such a sweet girl. She started sleeping through the night (about 6-7 hours) at 6 weeks. Even when we brought her home from the hopsital she would only wake up to eat one time per night and go right back to sleep. We only had a few sleepless nights mostly when she was sick with RSV and that was because Mommy was too nervous to sleep not because Taylor was awake! She has never been on a very strict feeding or sleeping schedule. She is beginning to form a pattern now, but she is still unpredictable. We can roughly estimate when she will eat and sleep but she is great at proving us wrong. We have learned to read her cues fairly well...feed her when she stuffs everything in her mouth and put her to bed when she cannot hold her eyes open. It works! Taylor sleeps 9-10 hours per night right now at 4 months. She eats five 6oz bottles each day (with 1.5tsp of rice cereal) with 2 baby food feedings (one in the morning between her 1st and 2nd bottle and one in the evening between her 5th and 6th bottle). She takes 3 naps per day for about 1.5 to 2 hours each. She will usually wake up during her naps about 30 minutes in but Mommy will go put her pacifier (YES! She is taking a pacifier now!) back in her mouth and she goes back to sleep for another hour or hour and a half. We are very proud of her! Taylor learned how to roll over from her back to her tummy on her 4 month birthday (April 3rd). We were very excited! Mommy found her on her belly in her crib yesterday for the first time and she rolled over 2 other times yesterday. She is getting the hang of it. She will not roll from her tummy to her back yet. She gets so frustrated on her tummy that she cannot figure out how to flip back over! We have started feeding her baby food. She has only had peas so far and it is hit or miss. Sometimes she'll eat them and sometimes she won't. Our pediatrician said to introduce one food at a time to watch for allergic reactions. We will try something else tomorrow...maybe sweet potatoes?
We will try to better about updating our blog. We had good intentions from the start. Things have just been a little...different! Hope all is well in your lives. Love to you all!
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