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| Sunday afternoon by the pool. |
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| "Who, me?" |
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| Snuggles! |
We started off by assessing a concerningly red behind... determined to be some gnarly diaper rash, so we established a daily routine of No Pants Tummy Time with Grannie! (Rest assured, Dargan was the only one participating in the "no pants" part). We also did some reading during this time, and Dargan seemed to be fascinated by books placed in front of him.
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| Evening reading time. |
The first night we decided to try taking shifts - my mom would give D a bottle while I pumped just before bedtime (10-ish) and would then address any fussing until the next feeding around 1am. At that time I'd nurse him, then mom would take any fusses until 4am when I would feed him again, then mom would keep him occupied until morning (next feeding at 7am). It worked out great! It was nice to just get to mentally check out for a few blocks of time. I felt so well rested the next day.
Tuesday was more of the same, just hanging out at home. We went for a walk around the neighborhood which was nice.
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| Shiner investigates. |
We did the same routine again Tuesday night and once again it worked great! 2 for 2! He stuck to the 3 hour routine throughout the day pretty well also. We figured out that 1.5 hours after he eats (ie the time it takes a baby to digest breast milk) is when he initially gets fussy. Originally we thought that meant he was hungry again, but really it's poop & gas related fusses. What a revelation! So we just try to make him as comfortable as possible while he works through that, and then he'll go back to sleep. Hooray!
On Wednesday we had an excursion out for lunch at Sidewall Pizza in TR, including a little walk on the Swamp Rabbit Trail.
Aside from keeping him out past his usual 3 hours between feedings, resulting in some crying, he did very well! That night he even let me sleep until 5am (4 hour stretch!). Was definitely nice to get caught up on some sleep this week.
Wednesday was also the 10th - Dargan's 1 Monthiversary! :) Can't believe how fast the time is going by (well, some days).
On Thursday I took Dargan to the Midwifery office where they have a monthly breastfeeding support group meeting. Basically they open up the office so you can come, work with a lactation consultant, and use their high-accuracy baby scale to weigh your baby before and after a feeding to see how much milk they're actually getting per meal. Turns out Dargan can pull out about 3 oz in a feeding which is great. PLUS it turns out he has reached the 8lb mark! I was very happy to learn all of that.
I got home and had a terrible headache, so I drank some water and laid down for a nap. Then I started getting chills and body aches and when I got up to feed Dargan, I took my temperature... 101.4! :( Thankfully Scott got home that night and took care of little D while I slept on the couch the rest of the day.
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| Happy to have Daddy home! |
We stuck with the new "routine" that night and it worked out great. Only change was that I took the fusses from 1-4am so that Scott could be rested for work in the morning.
Friday I woke up feeling somewhat better, but not great. I stayed in my PJs and napped on the couch as much as Dargan would let me. We did try some tummy time while he was awake in the morning, but by afternoon, I was back on the couch again and fever was at 102.
Originally we'd planned to make our first family trip to Barley's, but since I still wasn't feeling well, we stayed in. It was a wise choice, because we had big plans for Saturday - babywearing group and a birthday party! I ended up feeling much better by then, thankfully, and both went well. I decided to order a Ring Sling as an alternative carrier for the summer. We love the Boba wrap but it's quite warm (will be perfect in winter!) so a lighter weight sling will be great to have.
We went to Jeff & Deidre's house for Deidre's birthday party. The theme was Olympic Decathlon and we were told to come dressed in some kind of team spirit wear. Scott and I knew we'd be back and forth with D, so we didn't participate, but we dressed Dargan in his Florida jersey from Grandma & Granddad Trenor.
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| Proud Father & Son gators |
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| D says "Go Gators!" |
He did really well throughout the party and everyone loved oohing and ahhing over him. Not sure if he was just overstimulated from the party or what, but that night something got off-kilter and Dargan was fussy a good bit of the night. He basically didn't sleep between his 1 and 4am feedings. Blah! And we'd been doing SO well.
Scott took D for a run on Sunday morning so I could sleep some more, and we pretty much took it easy around the house the rest of the day.
Today is going well so far and D and I did a little over a 5k walk around the neighborhood! It took us about an hour and 20 minutes, but hey, we did it! It was good practice for the Brewery BBQ 5k that we're doing on Saturday. :)
Hoping we can get back into our routine more this week!
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