Ashley is a month old today! Technically she turned 4 weeks on Tuesday the 1st, but since she was born on the 4th, we will go with the 4th of each month for the markers to make it easy.
I cannot believe she is a month old already! It has been the best month of my life I think. I am just loving my little girl! I can't get over how much she has grown and changed in both looks and personality. She is much more alert, responsive, and demonstrative. She started smiling (for real) around 2 1/2-3 weeks old, she makes funny grunts, and today she cooed for the first time. She is getting strong with her neck and leg muscles. She lets you know when she is hungry! (I attached a hungry/impatient pic).
She continues to be such a sweet baby--the only time she cries is when she is hungry, gassy (we had a couple of days where the poor thing was having issues and pretty uncomfortable, but thankfully it's improving some), or tired. The rest of the time she is so sweet and pleasant--it makes the rest worth it!
She still sleeps pretty good during the night. She'll typically go to bed sometime between 9-11, then she'll sleep 3-4 hours, then get up again around 6 or 7 in the morning. Can't beat that. We've had a couple of "rough nights" if you can call them that. By rough nights I mean she is up and wide awake and it's taken a couple of hours to get her back to sleep, but when she is up she is happy and wide-eyed. So we can't complain, especially since she is such a great sleeper a majority of nights.
The only drawback we've had is that she has a hemangioma on the inside of her vagina of all places. Matt was changing her diaper and called me in to show me this red blister-type thing. We googled it, and it sounded like it could be a symptom of diaper rash, but called the doctor to be on the safe side. I'm glad that we did. They can grow pretty large, so we have to wait and see how big it gets. We need to see a urologist in a couple of weeks, but the doctor said today that he didn't think there was anything that needed to be done (she shouldn't need surgery or anything, and should be able to have a normal life and have children down the road if she chooses to).
Aside from that, she got a good health report. She was 8 lbs, 15 1/2 ounces (so they rounded up to 9 lbs today), and measured at 21 inches. Doctor said everything looks great.
She had to get a shot today. Poor thing cried and cried. I felt so bad for her, but I know it's for her wellbeing.
Anyway, life is good. Matt is loving Ashley just as much as I am. He's such a great dad, my heart melts when I watch them together. We were both saying that having Ashley has been pretty amazing, and that's great since the first six weeks are supposedly the roughest.
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