this week we had our first in clinic appointment with dr sarumi, the pediatrician on thursday. everything checked out well with trevor. he was 7 lbs 11 oz and 19.5 inches long. he has lots of dry skin especially inside his diaper, which dr sarumi said was normal due to being in the womb and not used to things rubbing against his skin. so we've been putting lots of vasaline on and it seems to be approving.
then friday was valentine's day and my mom came down for the weekend. on saturday al and i ran into eau claire for some errands, my first time away from trevor. it was a little nerve wrecking but we survived (it wasn't so bad, but i did miss him). mom stayed for the weekend and helped clean, made some food, and took the baby in the mornings so we could sleep a little bit more. thank goodness for her; she's a lifesaver!
on monday night, i noticed trevor's right eye looked a little red and had a little bit of crustys upon waking. i immediately thought it was pink eye but decided to try to let him sleep it off. when he woke up on tuesday morning, it was really crusty (yellowish) and the lids were red and swollen. his eyes are so big, it was hard to see if the white portions were red/pink or not; they looked a bit red from what i could see. so i called the clinic and they said to come in. at the appointment we saw dr husain and trevor weighed 7 lbs 15 oz; almost 8 lbs!! dr husain thought it wasn't pink eye but instead a clogged tear duct, but she gave us a prescription for the eye cream that they put on babies eyes right after they're born (the name escapes me) because it is anti-bacterial just in case. after one application, his eye was already better.
also at this appt, we asked about his always having poop in his diaper, since the tracking sheet they gave us said he should be having about 3 poopy diapers a day. she said that especially with breastfed babies this is completely normal, that as long as he's gassy and eating and peeing, he's fine.
sleep: trevor is sleeping pretty well! he sleeps 3-4 hours at a time and usually has one 2+ hour awake time per day; which we try to have during the day! i'm still getting between 7-8 hours of sleep a night, they're just not uninterrupted. but that doesn't compare to the 10+ i was getting during the end of my pregnancy. :) i haven't napped all week and i think i'm getting used to the sleep schedule; i still have points of feeling really tired but usually only about an hour long or while feeding him at night.
feeding: after he lost so much weight, i was pumping and we were feeding him by bottle so we could know how much he was getting. i stuck with this for a while because i didn't want to be starving my child. but with this (not sure if because of this or not), i had an oversupply of milk and my boobs hurt most of the time. it was very uncomfortable. thank goodness for the internet!! i did some research on pinterest and the bump and realized that i had an over supply (which we don't want since we have a very small, already full freezer and thus no where to store much extra milk). i attempted to pump less often and less amount of time (i was only pumping for 10 minutes max at a time already), but it still wasn't helping ease my uncomfortable-ness. hard to say if this was from pumping so much early on or if it was just the normal body getting used to how much milk to make.
i was/am leaking a lot and having to wear breast pads all the time. but monday and tuesday i worked hard to get to a point of only nursing trevor and not pumping unless i needed to relieve some fullness. i also started the block nursing style where i only feed him off one boob at a time. this seems to have helped as i have a lot less pain/fullness and he still sleeps 3-4 hours at a time. also, i had thought i was saving time in pumping and then feeding him, but it's so much faster to just nurse him! which helps a lot at night! he's nursing between 15-25 minutes. the only bad thing is then no one else can feed him; so at night i can't have al take a feeding. but with the feedings being much quicker (was near an hour with the bottle plus the 10 minutes pumping time) it's not so bad.
al: al has been amazing! so much more than i could have even thought he could be. he's been so helpful, doing as i ask, and doing things around the house without me prompting. he's had off work (he has to go back in just over a week :( ) and has gotten a bunch of things done that we had been putting off. he's been changing diapers like it's no body's business, even though he'd never changed a diaper before. he allowed me to take naps and baths as i needed when i was recovering. he loves this little guy and constantly says how cute he is! :)
nicknames: we currently call him: wiggle worm, munchkin, billy goat (when he cries it tends to come out like a "nah"), lance armstrong (when he stretches his legs out and in it looks like he's riding a bike)
it's weird to me that i'm not pregnant anymore. i still have a bit of a cough from that darn flu, but it's not bad just coughing junk up.
he currently only has 3 fleece, one piece outfits that fit him.
i love snuggle time!!
big baby blues
those squishy lips kill me!
the left picture is me 4 days after delivery; and the right 2 weeks out (plus i can suck it in a bit now, weird to suck in after not for so long). i'm 12 pounds away from my starting pregnancy weight. hopefully this breastfeeding continues to help :) can't wait to workout/lift again.
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