Growing baby

At her Monday checkup, Marjorie was already five ounces above her birth weight. It had stopped being such as struggle to get her to wake up to eat; she was demanding to be fed often enough that we could pretty much just feed her when she wanted it.

Yesterday, things got rough again: there was a 10 or 11 hour period in which she essentially wanted to feed continuously. She'd calm down and seem full, we'd take her off the breast, and two or three minutes later she'd be fussing and screaming and rooting for imaginary nipples again. It wasn't just the need to suck; she was acting like she was really hungry. All the time. She was peeing up a storm, so it wasn't as if she wasn't getting anything.

When Sam was at absolute wit's end, sleepless and hurting, the baby finally calmed down a little and had a couple of good sleep periods.

And today... she looks different. I noticed it when I was holding her just a few minutes ago. She'd already lost that tube-squeezed skull shape after just a couple of days, but now her forehead's less sloping, bulging forward a little more. The slight concavity on the top of her skull where the frontal bone met the parietal bone is almost gone. On the sides of her head, there are actually visible ridges along the coronal suture where the frontal bone's tilted forward.

She's opening her eyes and looking around a lot more.

And... her ears stick out more. I'm sorry to say it, but she may have inherited daddy's ears.

Pictures with baby

Not very good photos, since I was trying to take them while holding the baby, but they'll do.

Staredown

Radka and Nestor share a tense moment.