Jemma 4 Month Update

So Jemma turned 4 months old on Saturday!! The same day as the Ravens big win!! :)

We had her 4 month appt this morning and she is doing great! She is growing perfectly along the growth curve. She is 13 lbs 8 oz now and 25 inches long. So she is over 2 feet tall! I don't remember the exact percentages but they were around 70-80% for height and weight and 45% for head.

She is hitting all the milestones of stuff she should be doing by now. She is smiling a lot, cooing all the time, and almost rolling over (if only that one elbow didnt keep getting in the way). She holds herself up really well when she is on her belly. The doctor commented again on how alert she is. She has gotten that comment from the doctors since the day she was born. She always has such wide eyes and loves looking at everything. She is so nosy! She like to be facing out and squirms around to see whats going on.

We took her hiking yesterday on the trail across from our house and she loved it! She giggled a lot and had a huge smile practically the whole time (until she fell asleep). The trail was really nice too! It was about a 10 minute hike and we got to schooley mill park which has a huge playground and a baseball diamond and bbq areas and pavilions. I think that hike just made me love our house even more! I hope Jemma will be able to go out and play since that is so close.

The doctor said that we do need to change our sleeping habits. Mike and I got a little bit of a hard time at the doctors office. She is no longer supposed to sleep in our room (co-sleeper is getting packed up tonight) and we aren't supposed to rock her to sleep every night. Also, if she wakes in the middle of the night, we shouldn't feed her. She needs to learn to fall asleep on her own and if she wakes up to fall back asleep on her own. So we will have to make some changes starting tonight. As Mike said, this is probably going to be harder on mommy than it is on Jemma :)

On a side note, she was a pee machine at the doctors office this morning. She peed twice with her diaper off and I only brought 2 cloth diapers with me that got peed on quickly and we ended up in 2 disposables by the end of the appt! It was crazy! She got it all over the paper and her outfit. It was a mess! But she seemed to enjoy it, she was smiling the whole time :)

She did get more vaccines today, one oral liquid and 2 shots. The liquid she sucked down super fast and seemed to want more! She first shot didnt seem to affect her but the second one clearly hurt, she screamed for a while and it was pretty rough. They seem to get worse the older she gets. She was happy and talking away by the time I left for work.