Sunday, September 20, 2009

not so great news...

well, me and blake are at sacred heart. he got admitted the day before yesterday. we're trying to find out why he's not gaining hardly any weight (even though he eats well and has good amounts of diapers) and why he's still jaundiced at 7 weeks. they've done a lot of tests and so far they've found that his liver shows irritation on one of the blood tests, so now they're doing a million other tests to try and see what's wrong with his liver. depending on what it is, it could be the answer to both mysteries. also depending on what's wrong, he may need surgery. god i hope not.

to be continued i suppose. :(

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

it's been a while, sorry!

So Blake is now six weeks old. Where has all the time gone??? He's getting so big. Well, kinda. He's still itty bitty, but he's bigger than he was six weeks ago lol. He can already roll over from his tummy to his back, starting around 3-4 weeks. He's so strong! And he's kinda starting to smile. :) Working on it anyway, he doesn't do it too much right now, but I'm hoping that maybe it's just because he was born three weeks early. I just really wanna see his beautiful smile more regularly. Regardless, I love him so much.

The doctors are worried that he's not gaining enough though. Last week he was up to 4 lbs 14.8 oz, but still that was at exactly six weeks. He should be gaining faster than that. Tomorrow I'm bringing him back for a weight check, so I'm hoping that he's over five pounds now. That'd be cool. :)

Breast feeding is getting easier. Kinda. He still won't latch without the shield, but he's getting more proficient at the whole sucking thing. I've eliminated bottles too, so he hasn't had any in I think four days. :) And no formula for three, almost four days. Woo! :D But now he pretty much nurses all day. For real. That's pretty much all he does. At least my supply seems good, but I need to start saving some up for when I go back to work. Really I think I only need to save enough for the first day, and then I can just use what I pumped at work for the next day I work. Luckily she's only starting me out on two-three days a week. I go back the first of October. Not looking forward to it. But Blake's expensive and I definitely need to make money. Anyway, I've started seeing a lactation consultant to help me and Blake out, and I've started going the the La Leche League meetings. I love them! They make me feel like I'm not alone in my struggles. :)

So I didn't plan on it, but I've kinda gotten into attachment parenting. I co-sleep with Blake, he doesn't like to sleep any other way, plus I can respond to him quicker. I hold him all the time and I'm going to get a wrap so that I can do so hands free (can't wait!). I was only planing to breast feed for the first year, but I might go longer, like maybe two, three years. I don't know, I'll see how I feel about it then. I'm kinda wanting to check into cloth diapering too. Well, I've already checked into it, but I can't try it until he's bigger unless I wanted to use prefolds, which i don't really, so I'm just gunna wait. Besides, it'll be nice to use up most of these disposable diapers that everyone got me.

Blake can almost fit into newborn clothes now. :) A lot of them are still pretty big on him, but his preemie sleepers are too small on him now (he's so long!), so it's kind of an awkward stage, clothing wise. His preemie onesies and pants still fit, and he's starting to fit better into his newborn onesies (well, only some of them). He's getting there though.

Finally, now it's picture time. :) These were from 3 weeks, and he's getting his one month pictures soon, I think next week sometime. Yay! I'm so excited, I hope he cooperates. ♥



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