7 Weeks

You Know You're a Mommy When...

You know your a mommy when...

1. You sacrifice an $400 Ipad for a $300 breast pump.
2. You can clean the kitchen with one hand.
3. Your underwear is inside out most of the time.
4. You use nipple ointment for lip balm.
5. You get good at relay race eating with your spouse ("Quick! Baby hand off!")
6. You no longer care about your boobs hanging out.
7. Going to the grocery store to buy cheese, sans baby, is your "you" time.
8. When leaving the house is like going on vacation everytime because of all the bags. 
9. The most searched topics in your google bar is "baby poop colors," "how to increase your breast milk," and "baby sleep schedules."
10. Suddenly 4 hours of sleep is considered "great". 

I will keep adding to this list as time goes buy.

5 Weeks old

Here I am at 5 Weeks. I now weigh 9lbs 6oz. but thats with a diaper and clothes on...so maybe more around 9 pound.
I can sleep for 4 hours straight, wake up to nurse and then sleep for another 3 hours.
I have started to smile for real...at least my mommy thinks so, though I have yet to let her capture it on camera.
I have also started to show interest in facial expressions and mouth sounds. I especially like the vowel sounds.
I eat around 4oz at a time but that can vary as well. I'm a little piglet in the evening.

4 Weeks or 1 Month

I am 1 month old now. Can you believe it. I have been here a whole month now. Mommy says I have changed so much.

Daddy's First Bath Lesson

 Everett likes the hair washing...

 But the rest is for the birds.

Everett getting post bath love from daddy.

Snuggly Baby

Oh...Thats what a baby cry does!

3 Weeks old and baby Everett got his first lesson in "crying himself to sleep". Which really did hurt me more then him. After hours of snoozing, feeding, burping, changing, feeding, snoozing, changing, ect... you get the point. Mommy decided that baby was just overtired and needed a few minutes to exercise his lungs in his bed (that and the fact that mommy really had to go to the bathroom-like 2 hours ago ((don't even ask about dad)). So after all the basic and non basic needs had been met mommy sat next to his bassinet and watched him cry his little heart out for 4 whole minutes. Yes, it was gripping and yes, it took all my resistance to sit there and watch (no, he could not see me) I call it monitored tough love. Anyways, as the title to this post indicated I finally experience what all other nursing mothers have laughed about... baby cry equals milk letdown. Now, this normally would not have been a problem since I always wear breast pads (yes, I'm discussing this on my blog) but in my haste to put "everything" away at the sound of someone knocking on the front door during an earlier nursing session, I left one out. Now I'm sitting here with a soaked bra which is one of the
Mommy lesson number 24... always wear breast pads.