One month old

We were excited to celebrate Lucy's one month birthday yesterday. We started the day by going to an appointment with our lactation consultant Doris who has been a tremendous help with the breastfeeding. Unfortunately, when we weighed Lucy, her weight was exactly the same as it was last Thursday at the pediatrician, so she hadn't gained any weight in 4 days. This of course left me feeling a little discouraged because we have been doing much more breastfeeding and much less bottle feeding and I felt like she was doing well with it. But Doris gave us some good ideas, and I'm going to bring Lucy back there this Thursday after the Mom's group for another weight check. I never thought it would be so hard to just feed a baby!!

Some exciting news is that we found a great nanny for Lucy. We met her at our church. Her name is Bethany, and she is 28 years old, married and has a son Freddie who turned one year old the day before Lucy was born. She has a lot of childcare experience and Chris & I find her to be very genuine and trustworthy. We hope this will work out! Her first day is actually tomorrow (yes, tomorrow :). She will work some shorter 6 hour days about one or two days per week from now until I go back to work just to get acquainted with Lucy and to give Mom a little break to rest, study or do some errands. I'm really looking forward to having her.

That's all for now!