Henry David Powell
Its been a week since Henry was born. WOW!! People always say time goes by so fast and a week with my baby certainly goes faster than a week pregnant.
He is wonderful. During the day, he is the happiest, easiest baby ever. Around 10pm he gets cranky, but usually its tameable within an hour and we go into our sleep cycle. Henry had his days and nights mixed up so our pediatrician told us how to correct it. Right now he wakes up 2-3 times a night, with 3-4 hours in between. I am thrilled with that as a newborn.
The second night he was home, before we knew his days were backwards, we had the worst night EVER. I have never had such a horrible night, he screamed and cried bloody murder, til 5 am. Jason and I were so distraught, but luckily that hasn't happened since. Talk about being broken into parenting!
We looove our pediatrician. We just had the hospital send one over while we were there, and we just decided to keep going to him cause he was nice. When we went for our appointment at his office I fell in love with it. Everyone in the office knew who we were, and that we were coming with the new baby. When we got there the receptionist said"ah the new baby is here!" All the staff really seemed like they cared about the kids and not just running a Dr's office. So much so, that they open every door for you, and insist you put sanitizer on before you leave because they are really concerned about the measles outbreak here.
Bringing him home was exactly how I thought it would be, in that I had no idea how it would be! I think we did really well considering he's our first child. 1 week after he was born, I got a HUGE nesting bug at 8 am, I woke up, cleaned the entire house from top to bottom, I even hand cleaned the bathroom floors. :) It felt so good. It was really nice to have the ward bring meals. The first night the member brought us like 3 huge racks of ribs, I was sooo surprised. It was delicious
So I guess I have to start blogging details about Henry, like all others do. :)
He was born at 7 lbs 12 oz, left the hospital at 7 lbs 5 oz, and 2 days later at his appointment was 7 lbs 8 oz. Dr said his weight gain is awesome.
He loves car rides, falls asleep every time.
he HATES getting his diaper changed, with an ugly passion lol.
His umbilical cord fell off 1 week after birth. I hated that thing.
he loves to just hang out on the bed or table with us, he isnt needy to be held.
He has HUGE feet and hands, thats the first thing everyone said when they saw him.
he loves to suck on our fingers, instead of binkies, but he likes binkies too.
he pees the bed, all the freaking time lol. we have to Vaseline his penis area until his circumcision is healed, and it makes the pee just shoot of the diaper instead of it soaking in. not fun.
he loooves to be swaddled, we went and bought 2 extra swaddlers cause he loves them so much.
more to come later, of course. :)
3 comments:
I love new babies, and it's so fun to hear all the details of how he's doing (and I love hearing about birth stories). Congrats on your little cutie!
OH I remember what a slap in the face that first night home with elle was.. SO AWFUL!! Glad he is doing better! It is just downhill from here as far as that goes in my opinion. There will still be rough nights, but that first one is a kicker. He is SOOO cute!! That one you posted on FB today in his little outfit just about MELTED me! You are such a good mommy already!! KEEP 'EM comin!! I wanna hear every detail about mr. henry man :)
You're such a lucky mama; he's adorable!
How's is going with the getting back to the gym? I should do that soon, too. (:
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