marc and michelle

Stella: One Week Old

October 25, 2011

Stella is already proving to be a great baby.  Most nights she sleeps from 10:00pm-6:00am....love that about her.  I know this may change as she wakes up out of her sleepy stage, but I am sure enjoying it for now.  I will take it foe as long as she will give it to me.  Stella doesn't cry.  When she wakes up and is hungry she groans and moans but never really crys.  When Stella was born and we were at the hospital one of the nurses commented on her lack of opening her eyes saying, "Does she think she is a kitty and can't open her eyes yet?"  We have laughed about this a lot and call her a kitty cat, because she rarely opens her eyes.  She really prefers to keep them closed.  I don't know if anyone else has noticed this about their newborns, but I can always tell how my newborns must have spent  a lot of their time curled up inside of me looking like.  For example, one of Bennetts legs was always folded underneath his other leg after he was born, he would revert back to this position all the time.  And now with Stella she sits with both her legs folded together around her bottom.  It is really cute...you can see it in one of the pictures below.  Stella also loves her sponge baths and is super calm during  them....so unlike my boys who cried a lot during them.