First appointment

Blake is not at birth weight, which is what they wanted at his two day home nurse check up (7 lbs 6 ounces). He is in the 15% for weight and 43% for head and length. We are trying everything we can to fattened him up, but when he doesn't want to eat, he wont. I can not force feed. So when he looks like he is in the mood to eat a good meal, I will give him formula (lots of calories there). I try to limit it to once a day. The pumping is getting ridiculous. I hate cleaning out the pump bottles after every time. So now I am just breast feeding, even at night. Mike gets to sleep, I don't, but oh well. I try to nap in the day. Sometimes I do have to pump, especially in the afternoon when B is sound asleep for hours. Sometimes he will sleep 5 hours! And there is no waking him up.

Now we do cluster feedings in the morning and evening since he sleeps all afternoon. I guess that is better than being awake all night. This is tough and I am beginning to see that I don't think I could be a FULL TIME stay at home mom. I could eat my words in about 10 weeks though.