Oh how I wish time would slow down. She is my last baby and I have tried to soak in and enjoy every second of her newborn-hood as I possibly can.
Eliza is sweet as can be. She is my only newborn who doesn't spend a large portion of the evening screaming. She HATES the car seat though and can easily go from 0 to 60 in no time when she's over being in there. She doesn't love diaper changes either, though she is starting to do better at not crying during every diaper change.
Eliza is a huge fan of the bath. As soon as her cord fell off (around a week and a half old) we plunked her in the tub and she instantly loved it. Funny enough, Joshua was the first one to notice that her cord fell off. He was pretty fascinated with it so he was always looking for it when I'd change her clothes or her diaper and he was the one who said, "Mom! Where's her cord!?" Ha! Anyway, the bath always calms her down, and then she gets super angry when I take her out of it.
Eliza likes being swaddled and is a good nurser. I make sure to also pump and feed her from a bottle every few days so that she'll continue to take the bottle. She usually eats 2-3 times in the night. A few times she has eaten in the night and then wanted to stay up and play, but for the most part she is pretty good about going back to sleep pretty quickly and she almost never cries in the night.
When Eliza was first born she had major chicken legs and seemed sooo fragile - a couple times while nursing on her side I'd notice the leg on the bottom would start to turn dark. Ahh! It freaked me out but it always fixed itself quickly after I shifted her and it stopped after her first 10 days of life. She is becoming stronger and stronger every day.
Eliza hasn't smiled for real yet, though she has given us some reflex smiles. She doesn't seem to mind tummy time too much and is good about allowing her siblings to be all over her. She is so loved and so cute and we are so glad she is ours!
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