First doctor appointment!

D's first doctor appointment was this Monday afternoon (because it has taken me this long to finish one post. Oye). My MIL came over and took Em and C to the park and out to lunch so that I wouldn't have to try to handle all 3 of them on our first outing. My mom ended up tagging along to his appointment as well. I can't say enough with how much help our families have been during the last week. I'm truly blessed and I wonder how I'd possibly make it without all the outside help.


Declan weighs in at a whopping 7lbs 4oz. Only 3oz away from his birth weight! That's awesome since they give babies until 2 weeks to get to that mark and he's only a week old. Even though I'm not fond of nursing, we seem to be doing well in that area. I can't wait until he has some cute baby chub on him. :) We have moved on up to size 1 diapers so he's definitely a growing boy. The parts for my pump should be in the mail tomorrow. I'm so excited to pump some, mostly to relieve all this engorgement since he only has one side per feeding. That means one side is going 4-5 hours between being drained, so they hurt! Now I can pump the side I know I won't be using and then either save the milk in the freezer or let DH give him a bottle once we introduce those. I know pumping and giving bottles is a slippery slope to weaning but I think this will help with some of the stress I've been under lately.


- They came in yesterday and this morning I finally found some time to give the pump a try. Yeah, it was an epic fail. I know there's milk in there since he seems content after a feed and will sleep for a couple of hours at a time. But I got 1/2 an ounce out of one and nothing out of the other. Granted, the one that didn't produce any was the one he'd just nursed on 10 minutes prior, so I'm hoping that was the reason. I'll pumping a couple of times a day and I'm hopeful I'll start responding to it soon.


I didn't get how long he was but he has a little head at 33cm! His ultrasound was so right when it had his head measuring small. It's a cute little peanut head, though. :) She cleaned up his umbilical cord some and said it's close to falling off. He HATES water or having his clothes off, so a real bath is probably not up his alley, but so much easier than those sponge baths. 


Late last week we had some issues with blood in his stool but that cleared up as soon as I started only offering one side per feeding. So, I'm thinking foremilk issue. His doctor thinks it was from me, since my n.ipples did scab over some during the latching process. Yeah, no way did that much blood come from me. Either way, it's been a week since we've seen any, so I think that's done with.

Today is actually my first day home with all 3 kids, but that will probably deserve a post all it's own. Fingers crossed I haven't ran screaming from the house by the time DH gets home. :)