Baby Wellness

Well there is no question that my boobs are working. He weighed in at a whopping 11lbs - 15 oz. That is a 2lb - 13oz gain within the last 3 weeks (exactly 3 pounds over his birth weight in a month). They joked that I must be taking steroids and/or someone was leaning on the scale. The doctor seemed extremely pleased with it though, he was really impressed. I think they said they typically would have gained an ounce a day, about 1 1/2 pounds in this time frame. And I was told that formula fed babies generally gain more weight, I couldn't imagine his weight on formula. Needless to say he is in the 95% for weight. I'm actually still having latching issues on one side and he hasn't been eating well from it. Since he's gaining weight so rapidly, I'm scared to correct it and increase his intake! Alas, deliberatly witholding food from your child may warrant a call to the ol' social services. They don't typically measure them at 1 month but B measured him at 23 inches the other day, up from 21 3/4 inches. Not sure how accurate that is.

The doctor was really happy with his progress, mentally and physically. These appointments really ease my mind. I get to go over my list of silly questions that have probably been asked by every new mother (Is it normal for his chin to quiver when he eats? Is his abdomen too large for his body? Does his belly button look ok? You get the point). His next appointment will be at 2 months and unfortunately it's for vaccinations and I have to go alone!!! They didn't have any evening appointments available so I'm going to be the bad guy and probably end up crying more than J!

And look at this book we had made from mypublisher.com. It chronicals his birthday and our hospital stay, I put the letter I wrote to him before he was born and the birth story. I love it, it's a hardback with a leather cover, coffee table style so the pics are like in a yearbook. I thought it was better than a photo album and since all of our pics are digital anyway, this was very easy to do. You can choose your layout and captions. We're going to give our parents one as well. I PLAN on doing one for his 1st year on his 1st birthday. Hopefully I stick to that plan but you know how busy we become. By then I'm estimating we'll have 947,632,497,723 photos of him so it'll be a lot to sort through. Here are a couple photos of it and there are more in Flickr if interested.