hugh @ 1 month

anyone else thinking of ed grimley?

a month already. holy moly. i'd say i've been lucky enough to receive two social smiles at this point. one a week ago yesterday, and then again a few days ago. he's starting to track really well with his eyes, and he's crazy strong. strong neck, and already putting weight on his legs (to express his discomfort with gas or reflux usually). he's quite a chill baby, and really only cries when he's in pain - which is unfortunately more often than i'd like it to be. at 2.5 weeks he was diagnosed with reflux & we went right to prevacid which seems to be helping in that regard. he's still crazy gassy, which i know is due to my oversupply of milk & my overactive letdown. i'll appreciate these things in a few months when i can nurse him in 15 minutes, but for now he's not ready to drink from the milk fire hose so the poor thing is often in pain. i've started block feeding (only one side per feeding) & i'm hoping that will help.


his first blow out poo was earlier today. he has yet to sleep more than 3 or so hours consecutively. he seems to have very little differentiation between night & day. some nights are not so bad considering he's eating every three hours (easy feed, easy burp, back to sleep in less than an hour), and some nights i see every hour on the clock. luckily with mom here i've been managing naps most days.

no babies were harmed in the making of the above photo ;)