1 Week Old

Our little guy is one week old today. It is hard to believe how much he has changed just in one week.

This will be the last infancy for the last child I will ever have, so I'm really trying to enjoy every minute. I hold him and cuddle him as much as possible. Y and I actually found the hospital visit pretty relaxing, despite the pain of recovering from a c-section. My Mom stayed with T at our house, so Y was able to stay over with me at the hospital and we could spend a lot of time focusing on the new baby. It is such a different experience having a baby delivered full term and being able to be with him in the hospital. We really didn't have to worry much about the little guy and could just enjoy him. Our hospital room happened to be located right next to the NICU, so I would walk by there several times a day and it was a constant reminder about how different this pregnancy worked out, although I'm really grateful to have what appear to be two perfectly healthy boys.

We came home from the hospital on Thursday and are settling in with our boys. T is doing really well with the baby. Y has been spending a lot of time with him and that seems to be helping. The hard part is he doesn't understand why I can't carry him and why he can't hold the baby by himself.

We are doing very well with the breastfeeding. I had to supplement him for a few feedings in the hospital while waiting for my milk to come in, but now we are back to exclusive breastfeeding. He gave us a bit of a scare the first night home when he refused to eat for about 6 hours, but he has been doing great ever since.

JB has been a really easy baby so far (I know it is still early). The only problem we are having with him is that he manages to pee through about 4 out of 5 diapers, so we went through all his newborn clothes in just 2 days. The same thing would happen when the nurses would diaper him in the hospital, so I don't think the there is a problem with how we are putting on the diaper. We tried switching diaper brands, but it does not help. I think we are just going to have to live with it until the cord falls out and then we can put the diaper higher or move up a size. We think the leaking is coming from the top. We also think we are going to have some clothing challenges beyond the leaking. Because T was born in the dead of winter, I kept him in footie PJs most of the time. JB has extra long feet, so we are having trouble using T's old PJs because the feet just don't fit.

Here are photos from the hospital I promised. I will post the birth story when I find some time to write it up.