The Arkins: Cameron is 15 Weeks Old!

This seems to be her favorite pose.

Cameron Leigh is 15 Weeks Old!

Age: 15 Weeks

Weight: 13 lbs 13.3 oz

Clothing Size: Still wearing her 0-3M clothes, Now wearing 3-6M 1 piece sleepers - she's just so long!
Diaper Size: Pampers Swaddlers Size 1, although we're ready for size 2! I ordered some new diapers this weekend.

We’ve officially survived the 3 month growth spurt! Wow, that was no joke. It started slightly last Wednesday. Cami’s ‘normal’ behavior is to consume 6 bottles a day for a total of about 26 oz. She typically has 3 of the bottles while at day care. She also rarely eats in the middle of the night – even if she gets up. Here’s how the growth spurt went down:

Wednesday: Cami took a 4th bottle while at daycare. (28 oz.)

Thursday: All hell breaks loose. Cami was up at 11pm (late Weds night). I try the typical rocking her back to sleep – nothing works. I go ahead and give her 2 oz. at midnight hoping that would get her back to sleep. No such luck. Bryan takes over and gives her the remaining 2 oz. just before 1am. After an hour she is STILL awake and I take over. She starts her ‘bloody murder feed me RIGHT now’ screams so I heat up another bottle. She takes the whole 4 oz. down no problem and immediately passes out. In total she was up for 3 hours…in the middle of the night.

At daycare she took the extra 4th bottle and the evening at home was relatively normal. However after being in bed for an hour, she woke up hungry again. I heated up another bottle and luckily she passed out for the night after the extra 4 oz. (37 oz.)

Friday: Cami ate a TON at daycare. She had the extra 4th bottle I packed plus an additional 1.5 bottles from the emergency freezer stash. That’s almost twice as much as a ‘normal’ day! They said she didn’t sleep too much during the day, so hopefully she’d sleep well at home. Ha, Cami decided she wanted to stay up until 11:30pm and have an extra meal in the process. Silly girl. (38 oz.)

Saturday: Cami was in and out of fussiness all day. She finally took a LONG nap from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. After that she stayed up until 11:30 pm again and took 8 bottles total. (33 oz.)

Sunday: Things calmed down some. She slept in until 9 am and took about a 2.5 – 3 hour nap in the afternoon. I finally had to wake her up for fear she would sleep all evening and be up all night. She had 7 bottles total. (28 oz.)

Hopefully she’s finished the growth spurt and things can go back to normal around here! I will say that I’m glad I had made the switch to pumping because I would have been 10 times more exhausted nursing her as often as she ate. I was able to pull some milk out of the freezer to account for the extra ounces she was eating. All in all, I’m happy with this decision and it’s working very well for us.

She also gained weight this week which I was happy to see (and hello! She better have gained weight after all that eating!). Cami had stalled out the past few weeks and had even lost some from week 13 to week 14. I’m glad to see we’re moving back in the positive direction.

Yesterday we decided to try her bouncy seat out. She hasn’t quite figured out the whole bouncing part but the lights and sounds kept her entertained for a few minutes. We had to put a pillow underneath it since her feet don’t touch the ground yet.