Growth spurt

At some point late in the night, as I was flipping through baby manuals to pass the time while nursing, I read that babies tend to go through a developmental growth spurt at 7 to 10 days old.

That might explain why my baby, who had settled into a nice routine for a few nights, is now cluster feeding (nursing constantly for hours on end) and totally unpredictable again. I think she's just super hungry because she's growing.

Yesterday Molly had her second visit to the doctor and everything looks great. She weighed in at 8 pounds, 7 ounces, which is well past her birth weight. That means all that nursing is doing something!

Also, she smiled for the doctor and generally behaved like an angel. He seemed pretty happy with everything we're doing, except he said we need to be a little more vigilant about clipping her finger nails (apparently mommy's manicure didn't get them short enough) and he wasn't thrilled about using the little rocker chair, which we've been calling "the bucket," for entire nights of sleeping. He said things that hold her up at an angle like that can compress her belly and cause reflux. Man, this sleeping thing is hard. There are so many rules. Now we're trying again to get her to sleep on flat surfaces again. This afternoon she took a long nap in the Moses basket, which was great. She just had a long feeding and she's been sleeping for almost an hour (in the bucket, but who cares!) She's so cute!!!!!