This week I've been feeling a LOT more like myself now, and since Samuel's getting a little bigger, I'm feeling better about taking him out into the world. In addition to seeing some friends this week, we went to the doctor's office and Starbucks (and through the Chick-fil-A drive thru. :-) I also exercised for 30 minutes or so almost every day and started going back to the Y to get on the elliptical. I'm definitely NOT back to my pre-pregnancy intensity by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel like I will get there before too long. :-)
One really nice thing is that Eric's schedule has been super laid back this rotation. He's had to work, but has been home by 1 or so almost every day. That gives me a chance to pass off the kiddo and work out, take a shower, or, at the very least, just have an adult to talk to. That's been REALLY nice.
At four weeks, Samuel is still a pretty good baby. Don't get me wrong, we have some serious fussy/screaming spells. If you asked Eric right now if he was an easy baby or not, he would say definitely NO because he spent the majority of last night screaming for no apparent reason.
Still, that was an anomaly, and most nights he only gets up to eat and goes right back down until it's eating time again. (I should point out that last night he DID go right back down every time after I fed him, he just woke up an hour later every time and would NOT go back to sleep).
He's still been eating about every 2 1/2-3 hours, with Eric giving him a bottle for his last feeding right before bed (around 7:30). One night this week he actually only got up twice in the middle of the night to eat instead of 3 times. Unfortunately, while he went 4-5 hours without eating, he only slept in 2 hour chunks, and when I tried to adjust his feeding times so that it would happen again, it was a H-U-G-E failure. So we're back to the same old schedule. Bummer.
Samuel's happiest time is still first thing in the morning. He's usually super content to just lay on his mat or in his boppy in the morning, checking out what is going on in the world. I've been getting TONS of smiles during the mornings this week, though they are, of course, not directed at anything in particular. Still, it's really cute!!
We also got a new playmat in this week, so we've started doing more official "tummy time" a few times a day. He's pretty okay with it, though he usually gets mad about it after 5-10 minutes. I think he's just frustrated because he can't go anywhere. I guess I would be too!
One not-so-great change lately is that he has been spitting up a lot more.. It's never a lot, it just seems like it's really often. Maybe that's because he hardly ever spit up his first few weeks of life. I have to be honest: spit up is the grossest thing about babies to me. I had hoped that when it was my own kid spitting up I would be able to handle it better, but I'm still pretty disgusted by the stuff, especially when it's chunky. (EWWWWW!). However, I guess I'm just going to have to suck it up, because it seems to keep coming three or four times a day.
Tomorrow we go to Samuel's one month doctor's appointment, so I should have an update then about weight/height, etc. According to the Wii, he's about 9 lbs. 11oz (roughly the size Eric was at birth!). I don't know how accurate that is, but he seems a LOT heavier to me the last few days! He's still wearing newborn clothes, but is definitely on the brink of making the switch to 0-3 month. He's also still in newborn diapers, but I may try size 1s out this week to see how they work (since I have about a million of those and have to keep buying the newborns!),
In non-baby news, Eric turned in his rank list this past week. That means we only have 17 days until we find out where we will be living for the next three years. Yikes! It's really crazy to me, because, with all the baby stuff, I kind of forgot about the fact that we are about to have this whole other huge life change to make. It just hasn't felt real, and I guess it probably won't until we know where we're going. Still, I've started trying to do some more research about our top choices so I won't be completely unprepared when I find out I have two months to get moved somewhere totally new!
That's about it for now, I suppose... Until next time!
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