Alex had his 1 month appointment today. Doctor says he is doing great and is gaining enough weight. I sure hope so since we have been breast feeding him and giving him formula at almost every feeding.
Weight 9lbs 8 oz
Height 21 3/4 inchs
He is much more awake these days and can stay up for over an hour at time. Feedings are every 3-4 hours on average. Right now he seems to have some sort of pattern going. He feeds around 9:30-10pm, then again around 1:30-2:00am ( although last night we fed him at 10pm and he fed again at 3am) then at about 5:45, 6am then at 9:30ish, 12:30/1:30, 4pmish, 8 pm, 10:30pm. if he eats later in the afternoon and starts his night time feeding closer to 9:30pm then we skip the 8pm feeding. The biggest problem is getting him to go back to sleep after the evening feedings. Often it takes an hour or more to get him to sleep after his 9pm and 2 am feeding. We are working on this and some nights are better than others.
This week Charles is on vacation so he has been helping me with the night feedings. He has been taking the 3am feeding which happens to be the hardest since your night is broken up into 2-3 hour chunks. We have been each taking our turn to sleep downstairs with him but I think we will be stopping that this weekend. We may also stop breast feeding altogether since it takes me over an hour to breast feed him then change his diaper and then give him the bottle and then put him back to sleep. I am not thrilled about stopping, but at this point I’m just not producing enough milk and I dont’ have the time to pump to increase the supply. It is difficult to find the time to breast feed with another toddler in the house let alone pump.
We have seen some samples of what his smile will look like. He has the cutest little dimples. He still makes this little whistle like face where his lips are all puckered up. It’s so adorable. He still snorts when he is looking to feed.
This week he has already had plenty of firsts. Since Charles was on vacation we went to the pool Monday, muscoot farm on tuesday and the zoo wednesday. Today we went to the doctors office, Costco to get his pictures developed and then we went to visit Michelle and Samantha.
He has gotten plenty of cute little gifts over the past month. I’m still working on writing those thankyou notes!
Alex is very adorable and I’m so thrilled to have him. He has been a pretty good baby over all especially considering he was born early. The only thing so far is that we are hoping he begins to use his fingers to comfort himself like Chloe did…but so far…he doesn’t seem coordinated enough to find his hands so we have been using a pacifier when in need.
Chloe seems to already have taken a liking to him. Every morning she asks where he is and she trys to feed him, tickle him, rub him etc. It’s so cute.
The attic is pretty much done, it just needs to be set up. We still have to put all his clothing away in his room. We will be getting his crib on Labour day weekend. Charles sister is driving it down here.
Well that is all the news for now. It’s 11pm and I need to get to bed before his next feeding.
Love Sonia