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He & Grammy matched... he wasn't happy about the extra outfit change!
But soon he was happy to be held by Grammy.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
3 month photos...
So we got Christopher's 3 month photos done... again. I had gotten them done a couple weeks ago at Walmart and I don't know why I went there, it was just lousy and they did a lousy job. The rug he sat on was dingy and the place smelled! And so did the worker! And they were no less expensive. They had this deal where the whole package was under $6, so I thought, great - except you get there and that package deal is only on the first photo, which I didn't like. So Chris and I went to Sears to get these done, I like them.
Not sure what other updates I can give except the nursing is going excellently. The pump works like a charm and feeding in public is fine, now that I don't try to cover his head with a blanket since he hates that. The visiting nurse of RI is coming tomorrow and will weigh him, I am guessing he weighs over 14 pounds now because he feels really heavy.
We're now trying him on Prevacid for his reflux since he is always spitting out the Zantac, which has to be given three times a day. Prevacid only needs to be given once a day so that will be better, and we mix it in with milk and he eats it right up. I read it takes a couple weeks to work fully, so we'll see if that does the trick more consistently than the Zantac.
Have a good one,
Andrea
So we got Christopher's 3 month photos done... again. I had gotten them done a couple weeks ago at Walmart and I don't know why I went there, it was just lousy and they did a lousy job. The rug he sat on was dingy and the place smelled! And so did the worker! And they were no less expensive. They had this deal where the whole package was under $6, so I thought, great - except you get there and that package deal is only on the first photo, which I didn't like. So Chris and I went to Sears to get these done, I like them.
Not sure what other updates I can give except the nursing is going excellently. The pump works like a charm and feeding in public is fine, now that I don't try to cover his head with a blanket since he hates that. The visiting nurse of RI is coming tomorrow and will weigh him, I am guessing he weighs over 14 pounds now because he feels really heavy.
We're now trying him on Prevacid for his reflux since he is always spitting out the Zantac, which has to be given three times a day. Prevacid only needs to be given once a day so that will be better, and we mix it in with milk and he eats it right up. I read it takes a couple weeks to work fully, so we'll see if that does the trick more consistently than the Zantac.
Have a good one,
Andrea
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
12 1/2 weeks...
Hi everyone,
Chris & I had Christopher's baptism class last night where we basically learned about the meaning of the sacrament and some history behind it. It was interesting. There were four other couples there, one of them had a little girl Christopher's age but the other two had tiny newborns and one couple didn't even give birth yet. Christopher was the only one who cried :0).
As I'm sure you know, we had to give our other boxer Oscar away while I was pregnant and so we decided to give him to a boxer rescue league. That way, someone who knows they want a boxer specifically can adopt one. Chris goes on the website every so often to hear about updates and there was one today. You can see he's very happy in his new home, and there is another boxer there who even looks like Molly. I'm not surprised that the owners look tired in the pictures with two boxers!!
Oscar's update: (you might have to cut & paste the link)
http://www.boxerbuddies.org/Now/oscar1AA.htm
Oh and my Lyme titer came back negative, so that's good. The doctor did say there are lots of false negatives because you have to have it for a long time before it will show up on the titer, so its good I took the antibiotics just in case.
One last update - Chris will no longer have to bring the baby to Providence for me to feed him during my clinical, I realized what was wrong with the pump: the stupid face plate was loose. I called Medela and they troubleshooted with me. One snap and it works incredible, I went from pumping an ounce per session in the past month to 8 ounces in 15 minutes while I was away yesterday, which is more than he even eats at a feeding. I'm a tad furious at myself for not calling them sooner. It would have saved a lot of worry, all this time I thought my milk supply was too low to pump out and that my milk supply would stop when I went to school. I was pumping three times a day to get it increased, getting up earlier than the baby did so I could pump while he slept - it was a nightmare. Oh well, its resolved now and thank goodness it works so well.
Have a great week,
Andrea
Hi everyone,
Chris & I had Christopher's baptism class last night where we basically learned about the meaning of the sacrament and some history behind it. It was interesting. There were four other couples there, one of them had a little girl Christopher's age but the other two had tiny newborns and one couple didn't even give birth yet. Christopher was the only one who cried :0).
As I'm sure you know, we had to give our other boxer Oscar away while I was pregnant and so we decided to give him to a boxer rescue league. That way, someone who knows they want a boxer specifically can adopt one. Chris goes on the website every so often to hear about updates and there was one today. You can see he's very happy in his new home, and there is another boxer there who even looks like Molly. I'm not surprised that the owners look tired in the pictures with two boxers!!
Oscar's update: (you might have to cut & paste the link)
http://www.boxerbuddies.org/Now/oscar1AA.htm
Oh and my Lyme titer came back negative, so that's good. The doctor did say there are lots of false negatives because you have to have it for a long time before it will show up on the titer, so its good I took the antibiotics just in case.
One last update - Chris will no longer have to bring the baby to Providence for me to feed him during my clinical, I realized what was wrong with the pump: the stupid face plate was loose. I called Medela and they troubleshooted with me. One snap and it works incredible, I went from pumping an ounce per session in the past month to 8 ounces in 15 minutes while I was away yesterday, which is more than he even eats at a feeding. I'm a tad furious at myself for not calling them sooner. It would have saved a lot of worry, all this time I thought my milk supply was too low to pump out and that my milk supply would stop when I went to school. I was pumping three times a day to get it increased, getting up earlier than the baby did so I could pump while he slept - it was a nightmare. Oh well, its resolved now and thank goodness it works so well.
Have a great week,
Andrea
Saturday, September 01, 2007
11 weeks, 5 days
Hanging out with Curtis...
So its already September, I can't believe it! Its already time for school to start next week. I will be going back full-time but will be home with Christopher 5 days per week instead of working. Chris will be home with him the other two days, and so, the baby will get to be with just us until the Spring semester when he'll be almost 8 months old. We're very excited about that! By then, I feel like he will be at an age where there can actually be some benefit from 2 days of daycare per week. I had lunch with a friend last week who announced she is pregnant for the third time, and although her mother moved in with she and her husband, she continues to put her other two kids in daycare a couple days per week. She said they began to thrive when they were surrounded by all the other kids and wanted to do all the things they saw the other kids doing. So that was really nice to hear, that daycare is good for kids at a certain point and not something to dread. I think it will be fun for Christopher when he's 8 months to be in the infant room at the daycare near campus, he's already a sociable guy who prefers smiling at ladies!
I had my first day away from him last week, well, sort of away from him... I had an all-day orientation at Butler Hospital for a clinical I am doing there this year, and Chris was home. So I brought my pump, notified the instructor that I'd be taking breaks (she was so nice about it and went on about breastfeeding her babies! People really are understanding about this kind of thing) but when I tried to pump, I got nothing. I tried forever, virtually nothing came out. And so, despite having enough frozen milk to feed him for weeks at home, Chris had to meet me to feed the baby as I couldn't go 8 1/2 hours without draining my milk. They actually took a nice long walk around and waited so I could feed him a second time. So that didn't go too smoothly, but they had a nice day anyway because it was beautiful outside and Christopher loves going for walks. I had stopped pumping for a couple of weeks because it seemed like every hour I was either feeding or pumping, but I'm getting back to doing that now. He still eats all the time, so the two days I'm out I'll be managing one or two feedings with him per day - the pump just doesn't drain as well as he does.
Despite two nights last week where he slept until 5 a.m., he is back to the waking up at 2 a.m. I've been feeling really lousy this week and assumed it was just the sleep deprivation catching up with me, but based on my symptoms the doctor thinks I contracted Lyme disease. The titer comes back next week, but he said they often has false negatives, so I shouldn't wait for it and start the antibiotics now. Everything is fine with feeding the baby if that is in fact what I have, and the antibiotics are fine when used short-term, using them for months would cause a risk for teeth discoloration for the baby. I'm on it for two weeks which Chris said is safe.
One last update - Christopher and I went to church this morning and he really seemed to like it. He was in awe of the people singing and looking around the church. We are planning on taking his baptism class next week.
Happy Labor Day weekend!!
Andrea
Hanging out with Curtis...
So its already September, I can't believe it! Its already time for school to start next week. I will be going back full-time but will be home with Christopher 5 days per week instead of working. Chris will be home with him the other two days, and so, the baby will get to be with just us until the Spring semester when he'll be almost 8 months old. We're very excited about that! By then, I feel like he will be at an age where there can actually be some benefit from 2 days of daycare per week. I had lunch with a friend last week who announced she is pregnant for the third time, and although her mother moved in with she and her husband, she continues to put her other two kids in daycare a couple days per week. She said they began to thrive when they were surrounded by all the other kids and wanted to do all the things they saw the other kids doing. So that was really nice to hear, that daycare is good for kids at a certain point and not something to dread. I think it will be fun for Christopher when he's 8 months to be in the infant room at the daycare near campus, he's already a sociable guy who prefers smiling at ladies!
I had my first day away from him last week, well, sort of away from him... I had an all-day orientation at Butler Hospital for a clinical I am doing there this year, and Chris was home. So I brought my pump, notified the instructor that I'd be taking breaks (she was so nice about it and went on about breastfeeding her babies! People really are understanding about this kind of thing) but when I tried to pump, I got nothing. I tried forever, virtually nothing came out. And so, despite having enough frozen milk to feed him for weeks at home, Chris had to meet me to feed the baby as I couldn't go 8 1/2 hours without draining my milk. They actually took a nice long walk around and waited so I could feed him a second time. So that didn't go too smoothly, but they had a nice day anyway because it was beautiful outside and Christopher loves going for walks. I had stopped pumping for a couple of weeks because it seemed like every hour I was either feeding or pumping, but I'm getting back to doing that now. He still eats all the time, so the two days I'm out I'll be managing one or two feedings with him per day - the pump just doesn't drain as well as he does.
Despite two nights last week where he slept until 5 a.m., he is back to the waking up at 2 a.m. I've been feeling really lousy this week and assumed it was just the sleep deprivation catching up with me, but based on my symptoms the doctor thinks I contracted Lyme disease. The titer comes back next week, but he said they often has false negatives, so I shouldn't wait for it and start the antibiotics now. Everything is fine with feeding the baby if that is in fact what I have, and the antibiotics are fine when used short-term, using them for months would cause a risk for teeth discoloration for the baby. I'm on it for two weeks which Chris said is safe.
One last update - Christopher and I went to church this morning and he really seemed to like it. He was in awe of the people singing and looking around the church. We are planning on taking his baptism class next week.
Happy Labor Day weekend!!
Andrea
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Christopher enjoying his nightly bath... I got a new tub because the one I had from Fisher Price was a real nightmare for the infant stage. You may have seen it around, its a very cute tub - it has this hammock with colorful fish on it. The hammock stage was great, but then when it was time for him to recline that tub just wasn't designed right. The seat was really shallow, so he slid down all the time and the seat was also positioned so high that even with the tub full, only his heels would touch the water! Anyhow, he likes this tub and if I put it over the sink like its designed for, it reclines a couple inches further and he's very comfy.
"Daddy, WHAT is that machine you're shooting at me?!"
"Daddy, WHAT is that machine you're shooting at me?!"
Friday, August 17, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Friday, August 03, 2007
Sporting his new muscle shirt...
We went to Newport for the afternoon and toured the mansions with grammy & grandpa. He didn't want to be underdressed in such a fancy place, and so he opted for his green polo.
Christopher will be 8 weeks old next Tuesday, and so yesterday he had a doctor's appointment. He weighed 12 pounds and got his 2-month shots. I didn't think they would be much of a big deal, I knew he'd cry when he got them but I figured that he would be over it in a minute or so. And he was, he was upset with the shots but the pediatrician did them super fast and he was calm within a minute. Then as I left she said I could give him baby Tylenol for the next 24 hours if necessary, and I saw my calm sleeping baby and thought, naah - this guy is obviously much tougher than most babies, just look at him peacefully sleeping already! So we went to Babies R Us to pick up a sling but when he woke up he was really upset and crying. We got some baby Tylenol in the store and he was fine. He didn't sleep at all last night, even with the Tylenol, and he was pretty unhappy today too, poor little guy. Tonight he started to seem like he was feeling better, so hopefully tomorrow he's all better from his shots.
Hope you have a nice weekend and stay cool!
Andrea
We went to Newport for the afternoon and toured the mansions with grammy & grandpa. He didn't want to be underdressed in such a fancy place, and so he opted for his green polo.
Christopher will be 8 weeks old next Tuesday, and so yesterday he had a doctor's appointment. He weighed 12 pounds and got his 2-month shots. I didn't think they would be much of a big deal, I knew he'd cry when he got them but I figured that he would be over it in a minute or so. And he was, he was upset with the shots but the pediatrician did them super fast and he was calm within a minute. Then as I left she said I could give him baby Tylenol for the next 24 hours if necessary, and I saw my calm sleeping baby and thought, naah - this guy is obviously much tougher than most babies, just look at him peacefully sleeping already! So we went to Babies R Us to pick up a sling but when he woke up he was really upset and crying. We got some baby Tylenol in the store and he was fine. He didn't sleep at all last night, even with the Tylenol, and he was pretty unhappy today too, poor little guy. Tonight he started to seem like he was feeling better, so hopefully tomorrow he's all better from his shots.
Hope you have a nice weekend and stay cool!
Andrea
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
7 weeks
Our little guy is seven weeks old today, wow. He is sticking with his usual sleep routine but the past couple of days he hasn't been eating so great. Just not as much and more fussy when it comes time to eat. I wonder if he outgrew the dose of Zantac he is on for his acid reflux... we'll have to see. But he has enjoyed having Grandpa & Grammy here this week and going to the beach every evening for a walk or nap in the ocean breeze. Feeding him in public is a complete nightmare for me though, I really need to keep practicing because it makes me frantic - I have to manage to hold him with two hands while keeping some sort of blanket on me covering me up but still allowing me to see him. It doesn't work! So then he gets upset because I'm not holding him right and moves around, thus moving the cover off of him. I really hate feeding him in public. I know we'll get the swing of doing that eventually and it will end up being more convenient than bottle feeding because I won't have to make a bottle, but right now...oh my god!
Have a great week,
Andrea
Our little guy is seven weeks old today, wow. He is sticking with his usual sleep routine but the past couple of days he hasn't been eating so great. Just not as much and more fussy when it comes time to eat. I wonder if he outgrew the dose of Zantac he is on for his acid reflux... we'll have to see. But he has enjoyed having Grandpa & Grammy here this week and going to the beach every evening for a walk or nap in the ocean breeze. Feeding him in public is a complete nightmare for me though, I really need to keep practicing because it makes me frantic - I have to manage to hold him with two hands while keeping some sort of blanket on me covering me up but still allowing me to see him. It doesn't work! So then he gets upset because I'm not holding him right and moves around, thus moving the cover off of him. I really hate feeding him in public. I know we'll get the swing of doing that eventually and it will end up being more convenient than bottle feeding because I won't have to make a bottle, but right now...oh my god!
Have a great week,
Andrea
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
"You looking at me?"
Daddy cracks him up...
Our kitchen ceiling light fascinates him!
Today is Tuesday the 24th of July and so Christopher is six weeks old today. Its gone by fast and at the same time, it seems like longer than that, probably because even before he was born he was a big part of our lives with the pregnancy and the preparation! We were able to catch some smiles in the pictures, we even got a laughing session on video but I can't seem to upload it. I think its too large of a file, I'll have to figure that out.
The visiting nurse came today again and weighed him and he was just over 11 pounds and 1 ounce. So he is right on track. His eating is still every couple of hours during the day but in the evening, he starts the night out with a 6 hour stretch of sleep as of last week, then back to every 2-3 hours. Unfortunately for me this stretch starts at 8 p.m. and I can't fall asleep before 11:00, no matter how tired I am, so I still can't get more than 3 hours sleep at a time... but I'm excited he is sleeping longer and isn't confusing days and nights or anything.
The nurse said the same thing as the last time she was here which is that I should go to the breastfeeding support group and encourage other new moms who are having a tougher time. Although it is exhausting for me how frequently he eats during the day and being the only person to feed him all the time, we are very lucky Christopher is a good eater and is gaining a great amount of weight. I give a lot of credit to moms who breastfeed after doing it myself, it really is much harder than you would think!
Have a good week,
Andrea
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
5 weeks, 1 day
Dinga Lorie
Great grandparents!
So today he is more than 5 weeks old now and is doing great. Chris and I are getting to know his personality and temperament - but just when we think we've started to get his schedule figured out, he likes to change things around and keep us on our toes! Some of the things he likes are baths and looking out the window or over our shoulders, being rocked in his nursery or on the swing outside and having his face and hair stroked. Of course, he loves being held and cuddled with and looking at some of his toys that have lights & sounds.
Also some big news... he started smiling this week. It hasn't happened very often, but it is definitely a real "social" smile as they say and not just him smiling to himself because his tummy is full (also very cute). I haven't been able to catch it on camera, but every so often he'll smile the biggest smile with his entire face and it almost seems like he's giggling, it is just great and I can't wait for him to do it again.
Talk to you soon,
Andrea
Dinga Lorie
Great grandparents!
So today he is more than 5 weeks old now and is doing great. Chris and I are getting to know his personality and temperament - but just when we think we've started to get his schedule figured out, he likes to change things around and keep us on our toes! Some of the things he likes are baths and looking out the window or over our shoulders, being rocked in his nursery or on the swing outside and having his face and hair stroked. Of course, he loves being held and cuddled with and looking at some of his toys that have lights & sounds.
Also some big news... he started smiling this week. It hasn't happened very often, but it is definitely a real "social" smile as they say and not just him smiling to himself because his tummy is full (also very cute). I haven't been able to catch it on camera, but every so often he'll smile the biggest smile with his entire face and it almost seems like he's giggling, it is just great and I can't wait for him to do it again.
Talk to you soon,
Andrea
Monday, July 09, 2007
3 weeks, 5 days old
Getting big already - hit 10 pounds last Friday at his doctor's appointment
Family photo from this weekend
Chatting with mom
Offered a pacifier this week for first time, before 3 weeks they say it can interfere with breastfeeding
Taking a nap in bed with me
Auntie Alyson visited from Arizona this weekend
Grandma Resendes helped with a bath
Have a great week,
love, us
Getting big already - hit 10 pounds last Friday at his doctor's appointment
Family photo from this weekend
Chatting with mom
Offered a pacifier this week for first time, before 3 weeks they say it can interfere with breastfeeding
Taking a nap in bed with me
Auntie Alyson visited from Arizona this weekend
Grandma Resendes helped with a bath
Have a great week,
love, us
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