{"id":273,"date":"2011-11-20T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-11-20T12:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T18:01:06","slug":"this-post-took-me-a-week-and-a-half-to-write-so-its-sort-of-all-over-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"This post took me a week and a half to write, so it’s sort of all over the place."},"content":{"rendered":"

As of last Thursday, Urijah hit the one month old mark! (As of today, he’s 5.5 weeks.) It seems a lot shorter to me to say 4 weeks, but when I start thinking in terms of ‘months’, I can hardly believe it.\u00a0 We’re only 2 weeks away from reaching the end of the famed “the first 6 weeks are the hardest” saying.\u00a0 And really, I must say, in a lot of ways it has been true, but it has also been better, dare I say, easier than I expected.<\/p>\n

The hardest part of the last 4 weeks has been the feeding issues that we were facing early on.\u00a0 We seem to have settled into a new normal of breastfeeding and supplementing (with both formula and Lisa’s milk) and while it isn’t ideal (I desperately wish I could exclusively breastfeed this baby, but I’m coming to terms with the fact that I can’t provide enough, and I need to make sure his belly is full, first and foremost, so supplementing it is!), it is what we have to do and he is thriving and putting on weight, and that’s what matters.\u00a0 We just switched to Dr. Brown’s bottles<\/a> two days ago…we were using Green to Grow bottles from the start but he was spitting up quite a bit, so we’re trying different bottles to see if that helps.\u00a0 So far so good, he still spits up a bit, but it is definitely less than it was.<\/p>\n

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I hesitate to put it in writing in case I am jinxing myself, but the sleep has been pretty good so far.\u00a0 AND I AM HUGELY GRATEFUL FOR THAT, powers that be.\u00a0 Do you hear me?\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not taking it for granted!\u00a0 Urijah regularly sleeps for stretches of 4-6 hours at a time at night, and so far, goes back to sleep pretty easily after eating. I’m starting to see a pattern emerging of nap times and awake times during the day, so that helps, too.\u00a0 If I know he will go to sleep for a couple of hours and I can eat something, wash bottles and clean up the kitchen, it can make the whole day feel like a win.\u00a0 Like I know what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

It was a rough first 2 weeks of self doubt, though…I was frustrated and disappointed, and the emotional roller-coaster was a bit unpredictable.\u00a0 It feels like it is leveling out somewhat now, but I still reserve the right to have a cry if I need to.\u00a0 Just FYI.<\/p>\n

So…now here are some first month ‘stats’.\u00a0 The lactation consultant left her fancy scale here for almost 2 weeks, so I was able to keep tabs on Urijah’s weight…he hit the 7 lb mark and even exceeded it a bit!\u00a0 His face and belly are noticeably fuller, and he is starting to get that chubby baby look to him.\u00a0 Don’t get me wrong, he’s still tiny and a bit scrawny, but compared to how tiny he was at the beginning, it’s a big change!<\/p>\n

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He has more and more awake time during the day (and yeah, at night, too) and his little eyes are so bright and alert.\u00a0 He is making eye contact and I feel like he might be on the cusp of smiling soon.\u00a0 I keep trying to talk him into it, but he’s not cooperating yet.\u00a0 He can hold his head up really well when you hold him up on your shoulder…he loves to look all around, especially at lights or the TV or at your face.\u00a0 But watch out – he tends to overdo it sometimes and I’ve already had several hard collisions with his forehead and my lip.\u00a0 We’re working on tummy time – he can move his head from side to side, but not very much consistent head holding up in that position yet.<\/p>\n

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And I would like to officially extend an apology to every mother that I ever (silently) judged for saying that they didn’t have time to do something.\u00a0 I get it now.\u00a0 I’m sorry I ever doubted you.\u00a0 This kid takes ALOT of time.<\/p>\n

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As of last Thursday, Urijah hit the one month old mark! (As of today, he’s 5.5 weeks.) It seems a lot shorter to me to say 4 weeks, but when I start thinking in terms of ‘months’, I can hardly believe it.\u00a0 We’re only 2 weeks away from reaching the end of the famed “the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shereadsinthedark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}