Category: Diary

Today was Sarah’s wedding shower which was fun 🙂 One of her friends was surprised that i was out and about only 3 weeks after birth. afterward, kristie showed me how to use my car’s navigation system and i used it on the drive back up from peachtree city. it was pretty nifty…it showed me upcoming exits off the interstate, drive time/mileage to my destination, and lowered my music for me each time it “spoke” directions to me.

i hate when im listening to a brand new CD and i start recognizing songs on it. usually when that happens it means that i already own the CD and have bought the same darn CD twice w/o realizing it.

i got my birth announcements today so am going to be sending those out. im excited about that.

lucas had a 4 hour stretch followed by a 3 hour stretch last night! too bad i was up for half of it cause i wasnt expecting him to sleep so long. anyhow so i only ended up waking up for the 4am feeding and that was it.

im in the process of downloading WOW.

Lucas turned 3 weeks old today 🙂

last night paul took lucas all night so i got to sleep from 3am to 1pm yay!

ive also got my appetite back…thepast two days ive been eating normally the way i used to. it might be in part to paul having bought something called Dark Chocolate Dreams which is basically peanut butter + chocolate that ive been making sandwiches with.

yesterday dad’s cleaning lady cleaned our whole house top to bottom as a present from dad. very awesome to have mopped floors etc for once. i might see about having her come once a month or something if it’s not too expensive.

i used to be pretty good about keeping track of appointments/dealing with the business of life (as in dealing with my mail or whatever stuff has to be taken care of). now its like i live in a daze, put everything off until later, and suddenly im getting all these calls/emails cause it’s now “later” and i hadnt realized it. dad is having his maid clean my house tomorrow which he had emailed me about two weeks ago and i totally forgot. poor lady was calling me all day trying to figure things out for tomorrow and i was clueless. then also i had an email from sarah cause her wedding shower is saturday which id totally forgotten about ( i thought it was in like june or something) and had never RSVPed for. if she hadnt sent me a msg about it i would have totally forgotten and missed it, ack! one of these days here soon im also going to have to attack my growing Inbox before more stuff passes me by.

tomorrow we have to go back to the pediatrician for the state required newborn screening test thingy. they take his blood and test for like 9 diseases including one called maple syrup urine or something like that. luckily paul will be home afterall. since he wasnt helping the users the past two days he asked Mike if he was really needed in the office and Mike said no. so yay the two of us can go back to our normal (or what now passes for normal) sleep schedules.

i think i might give lucas a bath tonight. he managed to get spit-up in his hair which in effect gelled it into crazy spikes.

So this is what it is like trying to sleep with a newborn.

3:08 am – 3:28am he wakes up to feed and be changed.

3:28 – 3:45 we sleep.

3:45 he wakes me up making fussy noises and wont take the paci.

3:45-3:55 i hold him in my lap to settle him down to sleep

3:55 – 4:10 we sleep again

4:10 – 4:20 he wakes me up with stirring/fussy noises but stays asleep in the crib

4:20 – 4:36 we sleep

4:36 wakes me up with fussy noises a minute but goes back to sleep

4:36 – 5:15 finally asleep

5:15 time for another change/feeding….process starts over again

we went to the doc today for a weigh-in. lucas now weighs 8lbs 11.5 oz … a whole pound more than his birth weight! what a lil piggy. he is in the 50th percentile for boys his age, so right in the middle/average.

afterward we went to Kid2Kid the secondhand baby store and bought a bassinet for him to sleep in when he is downstairs in the family room. in the sims when i had a baby i always had to add a bed, fridge, tv, etc all to the nursery to keep up with the crying baby’s schedule and still keep mommy sim’s meters green. i now know how that feels…you need everything for living and for baby care all in the same place cause going up and down stairs is just too much darn work.

last night we met matt and sarah for dinner at ruby tuesdays and i had a glass of sangria…my first alcohol in like 10 months. it was yuuum.

early this morning lucas lost his umbilical cord – he now has a belly button!

paul said its ok if i put photos on his work laptop so im now uploading all the pix and will be putting them in the gallery and inserting into past entries

Today we did our first sponge bath (newborns dont take full baths). you basically just wash him off with a washcloth. he didnt mind it until we washed his hair – actually getting his head wet. i also had my first poopy diaper to change early this morning. luckily it wasnt one of the scary massive ones like paul got.

ive already noticed an improvement in my ear/lungs congestion since taking the meds last night. my ears are pretty much back to normal and my cough is much better.

im trying to pump more but im still only hitting like 3 times a day so far when its sposed to be every 2 hours. im worried im going to mess up my supply if i dont do better. plus when i wait too long they get full and sore. i absolutely hate breast feeding. it has been making me miserable.

tonight we had our first “outing” that wasnt a doctors appointment. the three of us went to walmart to pick up a few things. there are so many things we decided we needed the past few days but forgot to write down that we ended up getting probably only half of the stuff we need, but i started feeling really sick (headache/dizzy) so we would have had to leave anyhow. i dont know if its lack of sleep, the non-cold ive had, or dehydration, or a result of all the meds ive taken or what but i totally crashed. i also havent been able to eat much lately…no idea why. anyhow, i got a bunch of cute onesies for $3 each. btwn peeing on himself and spitting up on himself i go thru 2-3 outfits a day so we needed to grab some more cheap ones. from now on we are getting all our clothes from walmart … $3 vs $14 for an outfit that he doesnt wear long.

Lucas is now one week old!

paul and i went to the doctor today. at the hospital the recommended we get a Tdap booster shot (tetnus + other stuff) for some reason so we went to do that. plus i had a growing list of things i needed to see a doctor about for my falling apart body. i had her check out my ear sitch, got the shot, and had her look at my broken, bleeding nipples. i got 3 new meds to add to the growing pile of meds im now on.

after the doc mom and steph came over. steph brought me a little stuffed monkey for lucas cause ive been calling him monkey baby. he looks like a little chimp (which i know isnt a monkey, but “chimp baby” doesnt sound as cute) when you hold him up on your shoulder with his little legs pulled up to his body.

im definitely liking formula feeding better. last night we did shifts…. paul slept 12-5 while i took care of lucas and then i slept 5-10 while he took care of him.

woohoo i actually got to sleep a little last night. with him sleeping on a regular schedule now, the nights are definbitely going better.

lucas had his one week checkup at the pediatrician. everything was looking good and the jaundice is nearly gone. he still hasnt made it back up to birth weight yet (probably due to the not getting enough food all week) but he had gone from Wed’s weight of 7lbs 4.8 oz to 7 lbs 8 oz in 24 hrs. we go back next week for a weigh-in to make sure he is back up to birth weight ( 7 lbs 12 oz).

ive had to stop breast feeding all together because my nipples are so destroyed they bleed. instead im just pumping and giving him the pumped milk in a bottle. that way i can give them time to heal w/o getting further latch-on damage.

my life still basically consists of feeding lucas and laying around in bed in btwn.