2 weeks!

[district12ravenclaw]

Owen is 2 weeks old today!



Me - Continuing to heal very well. BFing still has its ups and downs, but I'm feeling good about it overall.

Steve - Goes back to work tomorrow. I'm really bummed about this, but I know that Steve hates being away from work for so long. He told me last night that he feels so useless because he can't feed Owen when he's hungry, but I assured him that it's been very important having him around. He's out getting Owen's birth certificate right now.

Owen - Such a cute little man! His evening fussiness has definitely increased, and he seems to cluster feed a lot. He'll go 3 hours without eating, and then he'll eat every hour for the next 3 hours, usually for only about 15 minutes. We don't put him down to sleep at night until we go to bed ourselves, at around 11 or 12, and he'll sleep until usually 5am. Despite the long stretch, it's still really difficult for me to get up and feed him. After feeding him, he'll go back down until 9 or 10. His umbilical cord stump fell off yesterday, at 13 days.

Comments

[mama-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Is he only doing 15 minutes because he's falling asleep? Sounds like it going well otherwise.

[stevesbabygirl.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's because he falls asleep, and no matter what I try, he refuses to wake back up. Sometimes he just pops off, and when I try numerous times to put him back on, he doesn't want it. He's a grazer I guess :).

[mama-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Mooooooo! Alex went through a phase like that. It was hard until she decided to change her mind. We'd tickler her feet, give her a little jiggle when she started to nod off, etc. Hang in there!

[stevesbabygirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do all that stuff too. I'll tickle his feet, scratch his back, rub his head, and he just conks out :).

[mama-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Sometimes there's no fighting a food coma.

[stevesbabygirl.livejournal.com]

That's for sure!