Joey got a visit from Bachan. He was pretty good all day long. We ran a series of errands and brought Joey along. He loves the car rides and getting out in the fresh air. It's wonderful to watch him look at everything around him. He takes it all in.
It wasn't until Thursday Night. It was a bit tough. We had a little one who was quite fussy and we didn't know why. We are breast feeding and were experiencing some troubles (as we found out, most women do). On Wednesday, Joey had fed then spit up (what we thought was EVERYTHING). He continued to cry and show cues of hunger. He cried and cried and cried. We tried EVERYTHING!!! We didn't know what to do so we gave him some formula to get him through the night. It was a very sleepless night. I called and made an appointment with the lactation clinic. My appointment was for Friday. In the meantime, David and I were just trying to get through.
One thing that we did learn is that our lil' Joey is intrigued with Baby Einstein! We showed him on our iPhone at 3:00 am. His little eyes we fixated!
Here's a photo once we actually got him asleep!
Friday, September 10, 2010
Today was the day we went to the lactation clinic. That was the BIGGEST help so far!!! They have a certified lactation nurse who looks at everything. She looked at the latch, Joey's anatomy, my anatomy, EVERYTHING! We also learned that we were overfeeding Joey. He had gotten weighed 6 days ago and had gained 14 ounces. He was only supposed to gain about 6!!! She let us know that babies are so immature neurologically that they don't know the difference between hunger pains and gas pains so they'll just give hunger cues for both! (ie. the sucking on their hands, the rooting with their heads, etc.) We also learned that some other signs that a baby has over eaten is the color of their poop (shockingly enough). If their poop is a green color then they've eaten too much. Also, she let us know that once they spit up, they've had enough. So when Joey had spit up everything [what we thought was everything] he had actually had more than enough. So we walked out of there much more confident that we were on the right track! We also got approved to use a pacifier! That's cool... turns out the nurse feels that Joey has a good enough latch that we can go to the pacifier.
We had a much happier baby that night!
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Today held some things to note! This morning Joey's umbilical cord came off. It happened in the morning so I didn't have to encounter it (I have a belly button phobia!) We spent the morning at home and got a visit from Cousins Amorita and Mick! After the visit, we headed out to the valley. Today was also PopPop's birthday! It was Joey's first car ride out to the valley. He did pretty well. It was nice, Joey got to meet a lot of people including neighbor's June, Robert, Rick, Emily, Ninette and the girls! Joey also got to meet Alex and Steve (the owners of Antonio's Pizzeria in Sherman Oaks). Today was also a first for Joey to smile and laugh!
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Today we end Joey's 2nd week with us!!! It's amazing how time flies!! We decided to stay home today and take it easy. We got a visit from Lindsey and George today! We also got my favorite hotdog from Portillos (If you've never eaten here before, you should!)
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