Photo Bomb

I am so tired I can barely speak in complete sentences, let alone type in them.  So just a quick update and lots of super cute (in my humble opinion) photos. 

Brady is really chunking up.  At his 1 month doctor's appointment, he was up to 11 lbs 2 oz (77%), and 22 3/4 inches (82%) and all around healthy and happy. 

We have given up on breastfeeding, it was getting frustrating for him to nurse and still need a full bottle.  So we are only doing bottles.  I have been pumping several times a day, and am able to give him a couple bottles a day of breast milk.  I plan to keep doing that as long as can, hopefully at least 6 more weeks. 

Brady is doing well at night, we can usually count on stretches of at least 4 hours.  Last night, he slept for 5 1/2 hours!  But I am not naive enough to expect that from now on, but I hope we are headed that way.

I find I am struggling to find things to do during the day. When he wakes up, he eats and then plays on his playmat. But I feel like he gets bored and fussy after a bit. I not sure what else to do to keep him entertained. I take him for walks, but he falls right asleep, and I don't want him sleeping all day. Any suggestions?



First Bath.  I hate to see him cry, but I do think he looks so cute with this lower lip like that. 

Trying to fly out of his Pack N Play

First Memorial Day Parade...he was not impressed

 

Pure joy

Baby Brady

I have no idea where the past 4 weeks have gone.  Baby Brady arrived on May 7 at 7:59 am, and everything since then is lost in a blur of exhaustion, dirty diapers and pure happiness.


He was an even 9lbs at birth, much less than we thought he would weigh.  Two weeks before he was born, the ultrasound had him at 9lbs 2 oz.  His projected large size was the whole reason we went with the c-section.  Granted, I have nothing to compare it to, but my c-section was no big deal at all.  By the next day I was moving around without a problem.  I felt so good, that I left the hospital a day early.  Once I got home, I felt so good that it was actually hard to limit myself physically.

We had a rough patch the first few days out of the hospital.  I thought nursing was going just fine, but Brady was losing too much weight.  After a few appointments with lactation consultants, it turns out my supply was low.  He was nursing for 45 minutes and only getting 1/2oz.  So we had to start supplementing with formula.  4 weeks later, not much has changed.  My milk is still next to nothing.  The LC put me on vitamins that are supposed to increase milk supply, and I have been pumping after every feeding to increase, but nothing is working.  I am lucky if I can give him 10oz of breast milk a day, so he is mainly on formula.  It is so discouraging.  But he is definitely becoming a little chubster.   I keep trying to tell myself that as long as he is getting the nutrition he needs, he shouldn't matter whether it comes from breast of formula.  And I guess any breast milk is better than none, but I still feel a little like a failure. 

Other than that, things are going well.  It is amazing to me how you can learn to function on such little sleep!  But he is getting better with the sleeping and we can usually count on him for sleep 3 hours at a time at night.  And I love listening to him snore!