First Bottle

Friday night we decided to try a bottle so that Ryan could help a little with feeding.  Cason figured it out pretty quick and has had no confusion between bottle and breast.  He does eat a lot slower on the bottle.  We’ve been doing the 11:00pm feeding by bottle so that I can pump and then get ready for bed while Ryan feeds him and puts him to bed…giving me probably 30 extra minutes of sleep!  :)

First Bathtub Bath

Now that the circumcision and belly button are healed Cason can have real baths.  He had his first one last night and really liked it.  He does not like being cold at all so the warm bath water was perfect.  He didn’t cry at all until we took him out of the water.

Weigh In

At Cason’s 2 week appointment, Dr. B was just a little concerned with Cason’s weight gain since he was a couple of ounces shy of his birth weight.  He told me to go check his weight after 2 more weeks to make sure he was up to 7lb, 4oz.  So yesterday, we made a quick trip to use the free scale at the hospital to see how things were going before the end of our 2 weeks.  This is what I saw when I put him on the scale…

That says 8 pounds, 1.7 ounces!!! YAY!!!!  He’s packing on the pounds and according to the internet :) somewhere in the 20th-25th percentile for weight now!! 

Mother’s Day

I didn’t expect to be really celebrating Mother’s Day as an actual “Mother” this year.  Mother’s Day fell 2 days after my birthday.  We joked a lot about how we thought my birthday would be pretty miserable… pregnant, fat, tired, uncomfortable and so ready to meet little Cason.   Mother’s Day would probably have been more of the same complaining.  :)

Instead, I celebrated my 29th birthday and my very first Mother’s day with my adorable little man, my wonderful husband and my oldest son (of the canine variety). 

Mother’s day has a new meaning now.  Though I’ve only been a Mom for a little over 3 weeks, I know already what it means to be a mother.  As my body was not just my body for 9 make that 8 months… my life is not just my life anymore.  Especially in these early weeks and months I hold the responsibility of this life in my hands and its an awesome responsibility and amazing gift.  From the morning I jumped out of bed and rushed to check on Cason after he slept for 6 hours to the way he melts my heart when he grips my finger as if he will never let go to all the crazy funny faces he makes as he stretches, wakes up, eats, etc…. I am just so truly blessed to have this happy, healthy baby that arrived 5 weeks early.

Finally being a “Mother” myself, it makes me appreciate my mom and my grandmothers and all the mom’s in my life that much more.  I hope to look back in 29 years and see that I’ve been as wonderful a mother as my Mom.  And with that, I thank my Mom for always being there for me and James, for loving us unconditionally, for letting us make mistakes (and being there to help us pick up the pieces when we did), for encouraging us to follow our dreams, for offering advice (even when we didn’t want to hear it), for being our friend as we have grown older and for a million more reasons… Thank You and Happy Mother’s Day.

 

3 Weeks

It’s been a good week for Cason.   Here’s his 3 week picture with Pooh Bear

We’ve been doing lots of tummy time sessions to work on the back muscles.  He very much favors laying on his right cheek so we put him down on his left cheek to watch him lift it up and turn to the right.

And turning… (I couldn’t catch him right in the middle, this is the best I got)

He also has found his tongue and you see it  coming out more often these days…

And he can finally wear footed PJ’s.  A combination of finding some that aren’t HUGE and him gaining some weight.  I put him down on the couch after putting him in the PJs and he just layed there like a board.  So funny. 

I think it took him a minute to get used to the one piece thing because as you can see in the pictures above (this morning vs last night) he was back to his usual kicking and leg lifts.

The biggest news is that, since Sunday night, Cason has been sleeping in his room at night.  He was in our room the first two weeks but he is such a loud eater that when I was getting up to feed him, he was waking us both up.  I had started waking up and going to the living room so we didn’t really see much difference in me waking up and going upstairs.  We had to do a monitor switch as our first one didn’t work so hot but the new one is great.  We try to do his last feeding of the night around 11 and most nights he then sleeps until 4ish.  I feed again and he wakes up between 7 and 8.  So, I’m getting 3-4 hours followed by 2-3 hours of sleep at night.  His daytime feedings are much closer together so I’m very happy with the night time schedule!

The rest of our 3week photo session.

Newborn Pictures

I had Maternity pictures scheduled for April 26th.  Since Cason decided to come early, we changed them to newborn pictures. 

Link to the album - Password is “Sarah”

Photos by Rebecca Todd Photography.

Newborn Pictures

I had Maternity pictures scheduled for April 26th.  Since Cason decided to come early, we changed them to newborn pictures. 

Link to the album - Password is “Sarah”

Photos by Rebecca Todd Photography.