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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