January 9, 2008

Well today I had my "Mommy and Me" checkup. Today was William's 1 month check up and my 4 weeks post-partum checkup.

Doc says I am healing up nicely and in another 2-3 days we can resume "business " as usual. (Now if we could only find the energy. LOL )

William is doing GREAT!! Doc said that for how old he is, he should be between 8.3 lbs and 8.7 lbs. (He was 7.7 lbs two weeks ago and she says that, on average, babies gain 1 lb every 2 weeks) He weighed in today at a hefty 9.3 pounds!!!! Doc still can't get over how that he is growing soo big and that it is all by the breastmilk (as we had a rocky start to breastfeeding). She is also quite happy to hear of his progress with breastfeeding and latching. He is also longer, at 20.5 inches. Doc kept on saying that he might need a MATERNAL test but definately not a PATERNAL test. There is no doubt that he looks the spittin' image of Jason. He also has a small umbilical hernia on his belly button (his belly button pops out of his chubby belly when he cries) and said that it should heal on its own. But other then that he is doing great and we scheduled his 2 month checkup. He will also hafta have his 2 month shots that same week, and I am not looking forward to that at all.

Today was also Jason's first day at classes, and so I had to take care of him by myself and get him ready and take him to his appointment by myself, which, I'll admit, had me nervous to be on my own like that, but I think we did really well for our first day by ourselves (William & I). Jason however had a hard time getting himself to leave this morning as he would be gone for the full day away from William (his first time away from him since birth) and it was all he could do to leave, as it was breaking his heart. Right now he is holding William and consoling himself with time with him right now.

William still is feeding every 45 minutes to 2 hours and for 1 hour stretches.