(Kaua in his bouncer for the first time yesterday).
Well, it's been a little over two weeks since Kaua made his entrance into this world. So far, motherhood has been pretty good. I'm sure most mothers think this way, but Kaua is a super good baby. Pretty mellow, pretty easy. He basically cries when he's hungry, when he has gas, or when he's hot and sooo over his car seat! (Note to all soon-to-be-mommies, the graco snug ride 32 carseat is uber duber hot. I read this in the reivews of the product but didn't really pay attention to it, now I wish I did. Kaua gets over heated quickly in the carseat and thus, hates being in it for any length of time. grrr...... oh well, at least it looks nice, right?)
Yesterday we had our first pediatrician appointment. Kaua is now 8lbs. 10 ounces, which is awesome! (my they grow so fast!!!) The peditrician, we'll call her Dr. H, said they just like to see that baby has regained his birth weight, but since Kaua was 7lbs 2 ounces at birth, he's surpassed that. He also measures in at 21.25" and we're hoping that this growing continues. He has almost outgrown all of his newborn outfits, and thankfully, we didn't have very many. That makes me excited, because we have a lot more and a lot more cuter 3 month old outfits for him. However, they need to be shipped here along with the rest of our stuff......
which leads me to my next update. DH, myself and I are now residents of the County of ___. We had to move back to my old hometown quickly because DH got a last minute call from work saying that he had to attend a mandatory training class from Dec. 14 - Jan. 22. That totally screwed up DH's plans to have a 1 month paternity leave and our plans to take our time moving out of our home. (grrrr to the ---- county!) Escrow on our home closes on Dec. 22, so we had originally planned on moving then. But due to DH's work, we decided it best that all three of us move together on Dec. 13th...so we packed everything up in a matter of 1 week, put a ton of boxes in our garage and flew out. We'll have to fly back to our home for one day on Dec. 23 to ship our items. This will be a tough day for me, because I will be officially resigning from work as well. We're also planning on leaving kaua with my grandparents, in order to avoid lugging him around airports and such. This will be my first time away from him for so long and I'm soooooooooooo not looking forward to this. I need to start breast pumping right away so that he'll have a supply of milk while I'm gone. I'm also worried he may not take to the bottle, since I've been reading that other new mommies have had trouble with their little ones. Yikes!!!
Well, I've got 1 week to get him acustomed to the bottle (either that or bring him with me?) I know, super selfish, but I cant fathom the thought of being away from him for so long.
It's so good to hear from you, and thanks for your kind comments on my blog.
ReplyDeleteLittle K is just gorgeous and he looks so alert for 2.5 weeks.
It must have been pretty difficult to finalize your house, and I hope that the time away from K goes well. I have heard that it is good to get babies used to the bottle as soon as possible, as you can then breastfeed or bottlefeed if necessary.
Keep us posted with your progress. Hugs.
Hey, I have that bouncer, but in green!!!!
ReplyDeleteHopefully Kaua will take to the bottle well, I gave CJ a bottle at 2 weeks. He doesn't care where the breastmilk comes from, just as long as he gets it!