Baby junk reading on milestones (I generally avoid the crap about parenting on sites like Baby Center, but sometimes I cave in...just, whatever you do, NEVER venture into the comments section. It will suck you into a vortex of stupidity. Kind of like Fox News...) says belly-to-back is often the first roll, but Penelope got all her head-holding practice by hanging out with us because she wouldn't tolerate two seconds of tummy time, so her first roll was back-to-front. Paul said a couple of days ago that he was pretty sure she had rolled belly-to-back, but today he actually witnessed it! She wouldn't perform for me at all this evening, but it seems we officially have a baby who can roll. I didn't ask which direction she rolled belly-to-back, so I don't know if she's in danger of being on the other side of the room if we turn our backs quite yet, but the punchline is: there needs to be some baby-proofing or at least baby-fortification happening this weekend, because she could start rolling all over the place any day! I am in serious disbelief at how fast this has happened. I guess it all started with the nurses and lactation consultants commenting on her amazing head control as a day-old newborn!
She had also been eating three pretty big bottles during the day when I was at work, way more than I could pump in a day, and now that Paul's done with classes for the summer I was pretty worried it was going to be more than I could keep up with even with extra pumping on evenings and weekends. But I did some reading and told Paul to try only offering her no more than 4 oz and change to start out, and only give her more if she was still hungry, and now the past two days she's eaten only 2 bottles the entire day I was gone, under 8 oz. This is partly due to eating more overnight, I think, because she's been waking up to nurse around 3 am for a couple of weeks now, and then she eats a lot in the evenings when I'm home, so I think it's kind of like reverse-cycling light, since I still only have to feed her once overnight. I also think she just finished up a growth spurt, So our new strategy + lucky timing with other things, and I'm back to being not too worried about keeping up with pumping. I did have to go back to 3 times a day, though, because even though I got just as much with 2 session spaced farther apart for a couple of days, it ended up decreasing my supply, so my results gradually diminished. I have to do 3x a day to keep the girls producing! But it's also good to know I can "cheat" one day here and there when I need to and cut out a pumping!
Speaking of which, I'm done with the evening session, so it's time for bed! Until my 2:45 AM wake-up call...
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