Atalie Belle is 6 Months! No Wait... She's 7 Months!

I hadn't done Atalie's 6 month update and now she just turned 7 months! A lot has changed since my last update when she was 4 months... I believe! Yikes!

The week she turned 6 months I kid you not it was like she transformed into a different baby. Or not a baby. She's trying to grow up faster than I want her to. She's been sitting on her own since she was like 4 1/2 months. Then by 5 months she was scooting herself across the floor to get wherever she wanted to go.

At 6 months she was fully crawling and pulling herself up on things. Couches, tables, any furniture she could get her hands on. At barely 6 months people! I've never had a child to do these things way early! None of my other three even began to start crawling until like 7-8 months!

And now she just turned 7 months and is so active. She pulls herself up and tries to walk. With the aid of the couch mostly, she cruises back and forth. Sometimes she thinks she can walk and completely lets go. And we have nothing but tile :/ She cries but gets right up to do it again. Crazy child.

She blows my mind on the things she can do! Her pediatrician bet me she'll be walking by her 9 month check-up! Oh no... I still want her to be my little baby!

Atalie @ 6 months:

- Weighed 14lbs 14oz
- Size 2 diapers
- Size some 0-3 months and some 3-6 months clothes
- Eats Eats about five 8 ounce bottles a day... no solids because she refuses to eat it! I've tried and tried!
- Holds her own bottle (been doing this a while too)
- Sits up completely on her own (been doing this for over a month)
- Rolls and drags herself to get from one place to another
- Babbles a lot when you talk to her
- Loves to sing songs... she joins in when you sing to her
- Hates to have her diaper changed because she hates being constrained in one place for more than 5 seconds
- Hates being held... she's so independent she 'd rather be exploring everything

Atalie @ 7 months:
- Not sure how much she weighs but she's so tiny!
- Wears 3-6 months and some 6 months clothes. She's very small.
- Size 2 diapers. Bought size 3 and they were way too big and made her leak. So back to 2's.
- Finally eating solids! Stage 2 Gerbers
Feeding Schedule:
Breakfast - A fruit gerber mixed with cereal (either rice, wheat, or oatmeal... we change it up every day) And she washes that down with a baby juice.
Snack - 6 ounces of formula
Lunch - Vegetable gerber and baby juice
Snack - 6 ounces of formula
Dinner - Vegetable gerber
Bedtime - 6 ounce bottle with one scoop of cereal in it.
- Walks around everywhere with the help of couches and her sisters and brother
- Babbles and screams to get someone's attention
- Starting to wave bye bye

She's growing so fast! It's weird to see such a tiny little thing doing all these older baby things. But she's absolutely the calmest easiest baby I've had! Our next goal is to get her a high chair so she can start feeding herself some finger foods and such.

Atalie Belle is 4 Months!

Okay Okay so she turned 4 months on the 8th... but I am within good time!

She had her 4 month well check today!



Atalie @ 4 Months:

-12lbs 12oz

-Moved her into size 2 diapers

-Wears 0-3 months still except for her sleepers... she's wearing 3-6 months.

-She drinks 6oz of formula every 4 hours



-Still the perfect sleeper. And she takes like 3 naps a day.

-She is so ready to try and crawl. Seriously! She gets on all fours and uses her legs to crawl but since she can't hold up her own weight with her arms yet she just gets frustrated and scoots herself where she wants to go. And she combines that with rolling. (Watch her take forever to crawl instead haha!)



-She loves her toys when she sees them she does everything in her power to get to them.



-She loves her bebe pod seat. Sitting up in it is the business because she can be nosey!

-She coos and babbles and carries on full conversations with me.



-She LOVES her brother and sister. She has discovered how to scream to get their attention so they'll go over and play with her. Lucky for her she has 3 choices so she always has someone to play with.


Mama's girl... definitely.





Miss Laila D. and Miss Atalie D.

Atalie Belle is 3 Months!

*I never posted a 2 month update on Atalie oops! I have her stats and pics and stuff like that so I'll add it in soon and backdate it for my own personal reference.*



Atalie @ 3 Months:

-I am not sure of her weight because her next check-up isn't until August but she weighed 10lbs 13oz at her 2 month appointment.

-Wears size 1 diapers

-Wears 0-3 months clothes and even some newborn still.

-Still drinks 4oz of formula every 3 hours. I've really tried to increase her to 5/6 ounces but she never finishes it.

-Goes to bed at 9pm and wakes up at 6 to eat. Then goes back to bed until 9am.

-She rolls from her tummy to her back.

-She smiles all the time now and even tries to laugh but can't yet



-Her favorite song is Baby Beluga which I have sang to all my kids and they all loved it. I guess it's just a happy song!

-The only other person who she likes to hold her is Diego (and Daddy of course).



-Everytime I try and change her diaper she kicks frantically and doesn't let me put it on her... she must think it's funny to give me a hard time. It's like a game.



-When I make her a bottle and I shake it she gets SO EXCITED knowing that she is going to be fed!

-She sucks her thumb like Alayna!



-Tummy Time is her favorite time.

-She still loves her swing and will sit in there all day if I let her. It's still her favorite place to sleep.



I can't say enough how much I love this tiny girl! I truly was meant to be a Mom of girls (not like I had a choice in the matter anyway) because I just love all the pink, the cuteness, the giggles, and bond a mother and daughter share. When she cries only I can soothe her, when she sees me she smiles the biggest smiles, when I talk to her her eyes light up with happiness and she tries to coo back at me and lets out little sighs and giggles, and when I hold her or lay her with me she just cuddles into me and stares at me in amazement. I can't believe it's been 3 months. She a perfect fit for our family. She reminds me SO much of Diego because she is so calm. We've had absoltely no problems with her since we've brought her home from the hospital. She really is a little Angel.

Atalie Belle is 2 Months!

Atalie @ 1 Month:

-10 lbs 13 oz

- inches long

-Wears size 1 diapers

-Wears newborn clothing and a few 0-3 months

-Drinks 4oz of formula every 3 hours.

-Sleeps from 9am-6am. Eats. And then sleeps until 9am.

-She loves to swim! We've gotten her into the pool a few times now.

-Loves me to carry her in my wrap still.

-Her swing is her favorite place to sleep

-Loves to be on her tummy

-She is so nosey. Always has to see what everyone else is doing!

Atalie Belle is 1 month!

A little late I know... but we had to postpone her appointment so I am barely getting around to posting this. (She's 5 weeks old now)



Atalie @ 1 Month:

-8 lbs 11 oz

-20 1/2 inches long

-Wears newborn diapers

-Wears newborn clothing (and it's still big on her)

-Drinks 4oz of formula every 3 hours.

-Sleeps through the night pretty much goes to bed at 10pm and wakes up to eat at 5-6am (Luckily she's been doing this since she was 2 weeks old)

-She loves to take baths

-She hates getting in and out of her carseat

-Loves me to carry her in my wrap

-Hates to sleep in her pack n play

-Loves her swing

-Loves to be on her tummy

Really I can go on and on. She's a really great baby. It's like not having a baby at all. She's wide awake, alert, and entertains herself during the day or watches/listens to the kids play. Sleeps good at night. Doesn't mind all the noise in our house, doesn't mind all the driving we do. She's never fussy unless she is hungry. She loves to cuddle, it calms her down all the time. I just love her!

Life With Atalie

So Atalie has been here for over a week now. She is such a good baby. She is very alert when she is awake and she's very calm. She hardly cries, she started crying the other day and I didn't pick her up just so I could actually hear what she sounds like when she does cry. LOL And she is a great sleeper so far! She wakes up at 1am and about 5am to eat and goes right back to sleep. And Jr and I each take one feeding so we get to both sleep most of the night. It's been great.

So here's what she's been up to this past week:

She got to meet her cousin Ramon who is 2 1/2 weeks older than her

(Atalie 2 days old)

She went to her first birthday party at 2 days old. We only were there for a little while though and only because Jr's brother lives 2 minutes away from our house.


At 3 days old she met her Great-Grandpa... aka Papa (My Mom's Dad)


At 6 days old she got her first bath before bedtime. I thought she's scream... but not Atalie... she was so relaxed as Daddy bathed her.






She cleans up nice...


At 9 days old she shows us her favorite pasttime... And she does it so well!


And today she turned 10 days old. So I snapped a few pictures of her again tonight. I mean she's so dang cute that I had to!






It's been only a week and a half but she fits right in this family. She's on a schedule already and doesn't complain... even though we are in and out of the car a lot during the day she just takes it all as it comes.

I love her!

Welcome Miss Atalie Belle

Well shortly after I posted my last blog post on Wednesday night, Atalie's birth story began...

You see I hit publish on my blog and then decided, everyone was sleeping and I was the only one awake still so I might as well make my time useful and pack the kids bag. I knew I had an appointment Thursday afternoon with my Dr. and he'd schedule my induction. So I needed to be prepared so I could figure out where and with who we were leaving our kids. My bag had been packed and ready, Atalie's bag was packed and ready, so I packed the other bag. As I waddled around the house for 45 minutes going back and forth putting together outfits finding shoes, socks, underwear, and all that stuff I started to feel some contractions. Nothing big, nothing I hadn't been feeling for a few weeks. I continued to pack and wrote myself some lists of things I'd need to grab last minute but couldn't pack right away because we use it on a daily basis. I made a list of what I needed to get done on Thursday (make phone calls, drop off a Dr's note top Diego's school, grocery list for fast easy meals for when I came home from the hospital). And then I headed to bed. By this time it was 12:30am.

I couldn't get comfortable, I kept feeling the contractions, but I was used to getting them more at night. By 1:30am I realized, "Holy cow these are coming more often now... I think..." See I've never gone in to labor on my own, I was induced all 3 times, so I had no practice with contractions at all. So I decided to get up and walk around. Maybe I was just so tired I was imagining it.

Jr is a light sleeper and being so close to the end he was used to checking on me in the middle of the night. So at 2am he woke up and realized I was no longer next to him. I was in the hallway when he walked out and scared the heck out of me. I told him I was possibly having real timeable contractions. So we decided to start timing them. Sure enough after an hour I had had one every 10 minutes. Knowing that it was possible they could stop I didn't want to go to the hospital and just have them send me home. But I also knew that by my 4th pregnancy... if I waited too long or if my water were to break, I could labor extremely fast and maybe not have time for an epidural. There was no way I wanted to chance that. But it was still only 3am and so I decided to shower and see if that helped. So I did but they still continued every 10 minutes pretty much on the dot. 4am rolled around and Jr was pressing me to go to the hospital as I was starting to get them stronger but still bearable, there were a few that I had to stop and breathe through. I tried to lay down and relax. It worked for a little bit and they started to ease up. But then my back started to hurt and that's when I was in pain. Albeit still bearable I was extremely frustrated that the pain in my back wouldn't go away. It was worse then the abdominal contractions. And so after Jr asking me one more time to let him take me to the hospital, I gave in.

My Dad was getting up to go to work when we told him we were gonna have to go to the hospital. So he stayed with the sleeping kids and we grabbed our bags and headed off. We got there a little after 5am and checked in. They took me straight to OB Triage, an all too familiar place for me since I was there twice a week anyway for all my non-stress tests and monitoring. One of my regular nurses was the one who took me back. We explained that I was having contractions since 1:30am (that we timed) and she hooked me up to the monitors while she called my Dr. After a while she said my contractions were now 8-10 minutes apart. I could definitely feel them every time now but still not in really bad pain. But they were starting to get worse.

After talking to my Dr. he told them to admit me since he was going to schedule my induction at my appointment that day anyway. So I just had to wait for a room. We made calls and Jr arranged everything, who was taking the kids to school and who'd they be staying with since we weren't heading back home. I was informed a room was ready for me and they would take me up and proceed to give me pitocin anyway to induce my labor and make things faster. I was okay with that. But 10 minutes later a woman made her way into Triage screaming in pain kinda like in the movies. Huffing and puffing, they checked her quickly and she was dilated to a 6 already and her water had broken, so my room was given to her.

I slept in triage for 2 hours before they got us another room. And we were taken away and I was placed in my labor room.


By this time it was 11pm and my Dad, Mother-in-law, and my bestie Tiffany had joined us in my room.


Right away they started me on pitocin and things got into swing quickly. I started having more painful contractions 5 minutes apart right away. Horrible pain I tell ya.


And they got the anesthesiologist in my room as soon as they could. Didn't take her long to have it in and then I was feeling better after a little while. And I got some much needed sleep! And Jr and the nurses got to be silly...



(On a sidenote: I was happy that a few of the nurses who have seen me throughout my pregnancy were there on the day I gave birth too.)

When I woke up again I was already completely dilated and they called my Dr. This was at about 4pm. It still took him an hour to arrive. But at 5pm on the dot he was there and ready to go.

By this time my epidural was starting to wear off so even though I couldn't feel the pain of the contractions I could feels TONS of pressure and it was hard to breathe. But everything happened quickly they had the room ready and I literally pushed one count of 10 and she was out. (The only time I really had to push was with Arielle and I still only pushed maybe 5 minutes with her) My babies pretty much just slip out everytime.





And just like that she was here. I immediately thought she reminded me of Diego when he was born. Then I couldn't believe how hairy she was! All my kids have been born with heads FULL of hair but Atalie was not only born with hair on her head, but hair on her entire body! She was like a monkey! And darker than my girls were. And I was so happy that this little Princess was finally here with us! The best feeling for sure. I don't care how many times you grow through it, it's awesome welcoming a new baby into your family. And I couldn't help but lock eyes with Jr and know he felt the EXACT same way. It's amazing how quickly our hearts can grow to make a place for another child. She's ours and she is perfect.

Born on April 8th at 5:11pm.
She weighed 6lbs 10oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.







My mother-in-law and sister-in-law were the firsts to meet her since they were also in the room when I gave birth.




But after I was stitched up they quickly gave me some apple juice and Graham crackers cuz I was starving!


Then the people started coming in...


Hello Grandpa!


Hello Nina!


Hello Tio Oscar!


Hello Tio Luis!


Hello Tio Juan!


Hello Nino!

And after all our visitors had gone we finally got some sleep.


And since Mommy never woke up until the morning... she spent the night hogging Daddy's sofa bed.


I pretty much slept off and on until Noon the next day while Daddy was on duty with Atalie. I really needed to sleep since I hadn't slept much the previous 48 hours. But when I did finally get up and shower I felt good and decided to snap a few pictures for myself.









And 23 hours after giving birth we were preparing to be discharged... and so we waited... Got Atalie dressed to meet her siblings... and Jr went picture crazy with me.








We thanked Mom for helping me and being there with us to welcome Miss Atalie. I know she got to see her before us and is probably smiling down hearing everyone say "Atalie looks like her Jamma!"


And exactly 24 hours after Atalie was born we were being wheeled out of the hospital for home!


We stopped and picked up the kids from my brother/sister-in-law's house where they were for 2 days.

They were happy to meet their baby sister!




And the girls fought over who was going to get to hold her... and they wore the "Daddy's Lil Girl" shirts that we bought them to match their baby sister.








And we finally came home and Atalie got settled in her pack n play.




I can't believe we're a family of 6 now!