Hello, Our little man just turned 1 Month Old! So crazy. Here is an update :) Weight/Height: Jens weighs 9 lbs 11 oz and measures 21 inches He is starting to definitely get some baby chubby-ness and it is so adorable. He has a nice round milk belly :) Sizes: At 1 Month he fits 0-3 Month or newborn clothing. Size 1-2 Months from H&M (their sizes are different...I mention their clothes because we buy clothes for our boys from there when we can) He is in Size 1 Baby Dry (although I prefer swaddler) Pampers and he is still in his knock-off Little joey cloth diapers (on the biggest size) and just growing out of his newborn grovia. We will be getting some more cloth diapers for him shortly. Routine: He is getting there with a routine, he is a really good baby! 8am - 9am: This is wake up time, it is usually around 8:30am, I am sure this will change when Jayden goes back to work and wakes up at 6:30 or 7:00am every day. I want to make a personal goal for myself to wake for 6:30am to go for my morning run and be back for 7 so Hubby can shower and get ready. So we'll see. Back on topic of Jens, he wakes up in between these times, we get up come down stairs, change his diaper and I nurse him. Then he usually goes back to sleep. He nurses about every 2-3 hours during the day time. I don't really have times yet because it is still very different everyday. He usually has more awake time during the afternoon and evening before bed. There can be periods during the day where he will lay on the floor with his blanket and toys for a good 30 minutes before getting restless. 10pm-11pm: This is when we usually go to sleep for the day. Now we are definitely hoping to change this eventually as well. Once we get a second monitor for our bedroom (since he will be in there for a while) we will put him down for even 9pm (which he pretty much does anyways) but we really need that monitor so we can really have our alone time for the night and cuddle up on the couch together! Sleeping: He is doing really great with sleeping. He usually goes down around 9pm (but then waits for us to go to sleep which not gonna lie sometimes is as late as midnight) and he wakes up every 3-4 hours...mostly 3 hours...goes right back to sleep after a change, feed and burp. Wakes up around 8:30am. He still sleeps in his cradle all night :) Eating: He is only on Breast milk...exclusively! Happy baby! Milestones: Of course there are very few milestones for this little dude...but here are a few I can think of.
1 Month Postpartum: A little update for myself. I am feeling really great. I actually recovered very quickly after having Jens. The first few days of the first week after delivering...I had some really bad cramps. I felt them for about a Week. They were really bad at times, normal though, just my uterus shrinking back to normal. At about 2 Weeks I was able to fit my belly band (size small) it was really tight, but I guess it is suppose to be like that. I don't wear it all the time, I should though. My postpartum bleeding has stopped around 2.5-3 weeks mark. Haven't had any complications with any of that kind of stuff. I weighed in at exactly 1 Month postpartum and I was 175 lbs (I think I weighed in at about 195 when I was done my pregnancy) So 20 lbs gone at 1 Month Postpartum is pretty good. I still find it extremely hard to believe that I still weigh this much though...not gonna lie it is really hard to think about. But everything is going really great, and I am happy and in the grand scheme of things the number really doesn't matter...as long as I am doing the most important thing...which is loving and enjoying my baby (and toddler) I have started working out a few days ago (I worked out twice so far) I plan on doing a workout (by workout I mean Jillian Michaels DVD) at least 3-5 times a week. Then I want to slowly incorporate some running (which will probably be fast walking at first) I want to run 5-7 times a week. I am also working on switching to only real foods in our house (which is really hard especially after the whole being pregnant and eating whatever I felt like eating) So yeah adding fitness and nutrition slowly to my lifestyle is something I enjoy doing...my goal to work out so often ever week is because after a few weeks of doing it I eventually really love doing it, and it just becomes easier and easier. I may start doing a blog post once a week on just stuff to do with fitness/nutrition so it can keep me on track better. But I am enjoying everything, all the snuggles, nursing, changing and just being a Mama of two :) Life is so glorious! Thanks for reading. ...following my dreams...
-Cynthia
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Hello, Well our little dude just turned 4 Weeks Old. So this past week has been insane. So much has changed already. Especially when someone else holds him I look at him and can't help but see how big he has gotten already. We got back from camping on Wednesday. It was cold, cold, cold. I was glad that I had a new nursing baby again, because he woke up about every 2-3 hours and then Jayden would get up as well and turn the stove on to heat up our tent trailer. But it was fun, minus the being super cold! We also went into Edmonton on Thursday, it went really well. My Father-in-Law watched Isaiah for the day so we just took Jens with us. It was weird only having one child with us. But it helped us to get stuff done...but even with all that time we still got home extremely late :( We are definitely adjusting really well and it finally feels like normal life around our house. Anyways on to the update. Enjoy! Breastfeeding update: Nursing is still going awesome. Although this week in particular he has been eating more frequent (just after he turned 3 Weeks) so I am assuming a big ol' growth spurt. It could also be that it has been really hot in our house. But his regular eating pattern goes something like: anywhere in between 1-3 hours during the day, and 1-3 hours during the night. Usually 2 hours, but on really hot days it's more like 1. My right side still fills up more than my left, but it seems to be more than enough for him...most feeds he doesn't even finish the side that he nurses on, if I was to pump afterwards I would still get a few ounces. I have been pumped about 4 times since he's been born. But I hope to start pumping at least a few times a week for practicing bottle feeding (so that hubby and I can sneak away if we wanted for a few hours) Sleeping update: Sleeping as been so awesome. There may have been a few nights in the beginning of the week of him waking up every hour...but he seems to have moved on to every 3 hours sometimes even 4 (which I try not to do, but I haven't had to set my alarm clock yet) I needed to for Isaiah otherwise he would just sleep and sleep. But Jens is doing great with sleep. Even when we went camping for two nights the beginning of week 3, he was bundled up in some winter snowsuits and slept with me in my sleeping bag. But he would wake every 2-3 hours. Then moved to every hour when we got home. Towards the end of the week every 3-4 hours. So awesome. The only thing is he does not like to be swaddled anymore, I am a little sad about that :( But I guess some babies just don't like to be, I guess he got some freedom from me not always doing it for naps and decided he just likes to be left unwrapped. We do keep a blanket on him at night though (I will take it off when he starts to roll and move a lot more than he does and switch to sleep sacks) but as for now he really likes his sleep and how we do things. After I nurse him in the night, I give him a quick little burp (which he usually never burps) then put him in his cradle and he goes right back to sleep. So blessed! Development and other exciting things: We just discovered (although signs have been there for a few weeks now) that Jens has slight colic. He seems to have an upset tummy a lot of the time and very gassy. We can always hear rumbling in his tummy...poor little dude. But he seems to cope with it like a champ, it doesn't seem to bother him too much, and when it does (not very often...every few days maybe) we give him ovol. That stuff is amazing. Not gonna lie when he doesn't take his soother I put a tiny little drop on the soother (I have done this about 3 times so far) he will take the soother no problem. Which leads to my next point, we got Jens a new soother, and he LOVES it. I am so thankful for this...because this baby loves to nurse! Isaiah really likes his brother. It is so cute seeing how well he is adjusting to him. He is at the point where he will be pretty careful when he is around him, and I am at the point where I can lay him on the floor (while supervising) and Isaiah will be very careful getting around his brother. So cute! Jens is now in size 1 diapers. (we had a huge explosion on our camping trip...we had a few more newborn diapers to use up and we bought size 1's for the trip) anyways the explosion lead to use just putting our newbies away and pull out the size 1's. I hate explosions and that they always only ever happen when we use disposable diapers. We still use cloth. But he has outgrow his homemade ones and lil' joeys. Also we are having the same leaking issues we had with Isaiah when we use our gDiapers. So that sucks. I think I will be ordering some more smaller diapers though for Jens in the next few weeks...because I really do prefer using cloth over disposable.
Jens is starting to talk. He is starting to find his voice, and he likes it. So cute :) Also he is a grunter, oh my he is a grunter...he even keeps Daddy up sometimes. In fact Jayden had to go sleep downstairs one of the nights, because he was so loud. He can be pretty fussy (probably from the colic) so he loves to be held and cuddled to sleep. He still loves to stare at everything, I am sure he is learning so much, and seeing so much more and more everyday. He is so curious and alert! His neck control is still insane, it has been since the day he was born. But he is getting better and better at controlling it and loves to start right into your eyes when you have him burping over your shoulder. I think he is trying to smile, he puts his mouth in an open position and his eyes get really glossy and happy looking (Isaiah would do this same thing...I forgot when...which is why I am making an effort to blog about Jens...so I don't forget like I did with Isaiah) Anyways one day that same look from Isaiah turned into a giant smile!!!! YAY! I think that is it for leading into the 4 Week mark. I can't believe he is 4 Weeks and he will be a Month old shortly. Yikes. Time goes so fast when you have kids, which is why it's so important to just soak everything in and cherish this special moments! Thanks for stopping by! ...following my dreams... -Cynthia |
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