Quick Update

Sorry to have been MIA, but life has been a bit busy. Between the baby & family life, I've also returned to my (hopefully, if I can pass) final nursing class. Less than 5wks left of the lecture portion of it.

On to more exciting things... or people! ;)

Little E is doing fine. In fact, last night he let me sleep over 4hrs straight... nursed for a bit, then went right back to sleep! A contrast to the prior night, where he decided he didn't want to nap/sleep @ all from 3am-6am. That was rough on Mommy... but we also napped together yesterday, so that helped!

I haven't been as crazy about taking pictures as I thought I would. I guess it just seems so laborious to grab the camera when he's doing something cute. I have many pictures from my cell phone & lots of sweet video clips from my Flip camera to upload later, but the "nice" camera isn't as mobile/portable. I think the better I begin to feel, the more pictures I will snap! :) Baby steps!

I still have achiness & pressure in my abdomen, but every day it seems to get better. I'm not as tried/lightheaded/dizzy as I have been, which hopefully means the anemia is getting better. Have more of an appetite now, too. For the first couple of weeks, I just didn't care to eat/drink anything.

We're still getting the hang of brea.stfeeding, but am fortunate that little E has not had issues going from br.east to bottle. I left the hospital pumping as latching hurt & the nurses were pushing us to supplement with formula. We were determined to do all we could to avoid that. The day after we left the hospital, my milk came in. I was producing three times what he was needing for each feeding, so we already have a decent amount of milk frozen & stored. We attempted latching several times a day, but by Thursday (his 1 week birthday)... I decided we would try nursing exclusively. It still hurt, but he was doing great. We have found a routine with bottles of brea.stmilk @ night & nursing during the day.

He get hiccups pretty much every day. They say there's nothing we can do about it, but it's so sad watching him. He inherited his daddy's violent hiccups. He lost his umbilical stump last Wednesday & has a cute little belly button underneath. He loves kangaroo cuddling & I do, too! His skin has become less peelie in the past couple of days... his little hands & feet were so peelie! :) He loves to have his head rubbed, unless he's just too angry with the world! Then, not much other than nursing helps that! We have been naughty & co-sleep sometimes with him. More so in the first week than now as we have learned his sleeping pattern & regulated his feeding more to suit his growing needs.

Well, I have a project to research for now, so I should head off. Sorry for the lack of updates, but I think I'm getting back into the swing of life & not feeling so much like a zombie all the time. I would leave with a couple of pictures, but not able to upload to Blogger right now? You can click the link for one of the most recent ones of Little E...

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