Growing Pains

So it looks like the sleeping till 5am thing was a fluke. However, 3:30 seems to be a consistent time for Sahana to get up at night these days, and I'm not complaining -- she can usually go from then until 7 am so it's still only one feeding at night. She's getting to be a better burper, too, so the feedings are getting shorter. Last night I was up and back to bed in about 40 minutes.

Sahana is growing like a weed. She has to weigh over 9 lbs. now. Here is a comparison of her at 1 1/2 weeks and at 1 month:





It actually freaked me out a little bit: I told Andy that I was worried that she would end up on one of those shows on TLC, about people with weird issues, like "World's Tallest Man," or whatever. But growing is good, I guess.

Speaking of growing, Paras is a total giant. We can't figure out when it happened, but he suddenly got very heavy and lost his baby face:



He's now a little boy. Andy gets really angry that Paras still wears a diaper -- I agree that he is ready to be potty trained. (Andy said of changing his poopy diaper, "It's like changing my dad." Not exactly the image I wanted to picture.) But, given that he is in total regression mode right now, it seems like it makes more sense to wait. The only good thing about the regression, by the way, is that Paras is drinking a lot more milk.

And speaking of heavy, I've got about 6 more pounds to lose. It's not so bad, actually -- I shrunk back faster this time than I did after Paras. But it was a little depressing when, a few days after I had Sahana, I weighed myself and saw that I had only lost 6 pounds. I mean, Sahana herself weighed almost 8. But maybe that was retained fluid or something. Anyway, Sahana and I got for a walk every day so I'm hoping to fit back into my old clothes before I go back to work. Maybe I'll post a before and after photo...but only if I lose it all.

OK, gotta run, I took a sleeping pill so I can catch some Zs before I have to feed Sahana again. Nothing good on TV tonight.