Oh my goodness! I can't believe 3 weeks have past since the birth of our precious boy!!! We have learned so much and we're so blessed with how wonderful he has been over the past 3 weeks! I've been reading The Baby Whisperer and Happiest Baby on the Block, as well as continuing to read and study Babywise. Books don't have all the answers, but they have been very helpful!
I was very concerned the first few days being home about how much I should nurse him and if he was getting enough to eat!!! I of course fed him every 2-3 hours but he has been a sleepy baby and I worried that he wasn't getting enough to eat at each feeding. At his 1 week check-up the Dr. said he was doing wonderfully! And Nick and I have been weighing him at home and he's gaining about a pound a week!
He went through about 2 days where we both seemed to have the baby blues. He just did not seem happy and was really fussy and gassy for a couple of days. That of course made me feel moody and blue - but we're all good now!!!
The tips in Happiest Baby on the Block have been wonderful! We do the "5 S's" and he calms down when he has been fussy - sometimes he'll go to sleep and sometimes we just keep him swaddled and rock him while we gaze at each others eyes! That's the moment I look forward to every day!!! I love playing "flirty eye" with my little boy!!!
We have so much more to learn but I'm looking forward to every minute of it!!!!
Here are side-by-side pictures of his 1, 2 and 3 week picture!
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