Jared is One Month Old

Here are some highlights from Jared's one-month birthday. I'm writing this down mainly for my own benefit so I'll have a record of what he was doing at this age. :-)



According to our scale & ruler (which are not super accurate), Jared weighs about 9 pounds and is about 21-22 inches long.

He is generally a very happy baby, although usually once a day he has a "fussy time." Unfortunately for us, it normally occurs at night right around the time we are ready to go to bed.


He enjoys being in his bouncer & that generally calms him down pretty well.


He loves bath time. His cord didn't fall off until he was 3 weeks old, and so it was hard to bathe him before that. Now the hardest thing about bath time is having Noelle constantly lean on me so that she can see.

He also enjoys being in his sling, too. When he's fussy, it's a great way to get him to stop crying. I didn't have one with Noelle, and I really like having it this time around! I enjoy having use of both of my hands. :-)


He does not like the baby swing. Hopefully, Jared will change his mind about this soon. Noelle begs me to put him in it, but he cries most of the time. We took these pictures just so that we could compare Jared and Noelle at the same age.


We just upgraded him to size 1 diapers, and he is starting to outgrow some of his smaller newborn clothes.

Jared seems to eat much more than Noelle did at this age. During the day he goes 1.5 to 2.5 hours between feedings, but he'll go for longer stretches at night. (Usually 3 to 5 hours--if we're lucky!)

He spits up a ton. (Much like Noelle did!) For those of you who have given us burp cloths...they've gotten a lot of use already!


We go to sleep between 10 and 11 most nights, and Jared generally wakes up twice between then and 7 am. Occasionally, he'll wake up only once, and some nights it's 3 times. We're hoping that his sleep patterns will start to get a little more regular soon. He also sleeps with a pacifier, and some nights we'll have to put the pacifier back in several times. Not fun. Generally, though, he is pretty easy to put back to sleep after he eats, and we're doing OK on sleep. I'm feeling a little more rested than I did a couple of weeks ago. :-)

Jared and Noelle really are pretty similar at this age, in looks and personality. Here are pictures of them both at one month ol:

Noelle

Jared