Once Upon a Time...

[mizkitty318]

So Tony is a week old today, well tonight he will be. I can't believe its gone by that fast! wow. I'm just now getting around to posting details. Its been a really long and difficult week. Last night I got the most sleep since bringing him home. Granted it was very broken cuz he kept waking up to eat but sleep is sleep. I've been running on about 2

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[mizkitty318]

that would be nice, but I'm afraid Nick and I toss and turn waaay too much in the night to do that. I also think he's got his days and nights reversed. He'll have long sleeping spells during the day, 3 hrs or so, but at night, every 2 he wants more.

Question as another breastfeeding mom. All the Drs say to nurse 15 min on each side. I'm doing good to get him to do 15 period before he goes back to sleep. I try to aggravate and wake him back up, but he just won't suck. How long did yours usually nurse? He seems to be gaining weight ok, I'm just scared.

[mizkitty318]

lol, he has a wet diaper and a bm with every feeding! He did a bit better last night with the sleeping longer and getting up to eat. The side sleeper cribs are nice but there's just not enough room in our bedroom. I started to put one on my registry. alas.

Unfortunately he does have a preference for fake nipples. He was tongue tied at birth and couldn't nurse so they gave me a medela nipple shell/shield thingy. He'll only nurse with that shell now. I try to get him to go without but he just gets frustrated and hysterical. The down side is the shell just sort of lets it run in his mouth and he tends to gag. He's also had a few bottles cuz I was having to supplement him with forumla til my milk came in. But he's not had any more of that.

Another question. What does your milk look like? Most breast milk I've seen at the school was kinda watery and skim milk lookin. Mine's not at all. Its real creamy lookin like whole milk.

[hyroic_heelyr]

Yep... definitely a baby.

I kid, I kid. But seriously, little babies make me nervous, they're so small and I'm so not small. Which means I might squish them or something. So i tend to stay my distance until they can start moving around a lil on their own. COngrats! He really is cute, and I'm not just saying that. Regularly babies make me think... whoa, that's a human? Tony makes me think... dawwwwwww!