One month old

Today, Dottie turns one month old. She has visibly grown larger, but we haven't had any doctors' appointments to find out exactly how much. We suspect she is now in the low-to-middle 8lb range.

We've had several rough nights where Dottie would scream in frustration, usually because she wasn't being fed as quickly as she'd like. Alisha saw on the web that there are several growth spurts which occur around the 3-week mark, so we're hoping those were the cause and that this won't be an ongoing issue. I've found that my willingness to put up with screaming directly correlates with how much sleep I've had.

She smiles occasionally, but hasn't started regular cooing. Alisha observed a laugh a few days ago. Now that Alisha's sister and niece are in town we're hoping that the cooing and cute things start kicking in so that she'll enjoy her time with us. We'll post more videos once that starts happening!