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@AggieDaze: adorable feet!!

Loving everyone's photos!!

@AggieDaze: Same here! There's a pattern but definitely no schedule! We take him up around 930, do one more feeding, and put him to sleep in the bassinet by our bed and we also go to sleep! And DW wakes up at 6 everyday anyway (...) so she gets him up then and they go downstairs. That's the only "schedule" we have! Since I do all the overnight stuff (and typically can't get back to sleep inbetween :/), I sleep in the mornings til 9 or so. Don't know what I will do when I go back to work though!!!

@Miss Sarah: ok good luck!! Zzzzz

oh my gosh, cute cute CUTENESS!

@Miss Sarah: whoohooo 5 hours! thats awesome, I bet you felt like a new woman after that snooze

we are having trouble still with day time sleeps, she could go hours and hours with teeny little catnaps. today she was on the boob ALL DAY. only managed to get her to go to sleep at about 1pm (after being awake from 7am!) and she dozed for 2 hours, then up again til 7pm. sleeping now, fingers crossed she rests through the night, mama needs some beauty sleep.

@peaches1038: Ha! He looks long and lean in that photo!! One month today and we are officially out of newborn clothes also!

@miss Sarah; We are up too! Merry Christmas!!

@peaches 1038: I've woken up pretty engorged cus LO has only been feeding on one side per session overnight for some reason. In fact, I've started feeding him from just one first thing in the morning and pumping the other. It seems to help some of the sputtering/pulling off for the rest of the day:.. Though not the gas or spit up

Merry Christmas to you all! I haven't been around much, but hope all you ladies have fabulous day with your little ones. Here's a pic of ours last night before church

@JennyG: Adorable!

Merry Christmas to everyone! I have been so thankful to have this board the past 11 (!) months!

@Miss Sarah: I'm not sure we've had a period where I'm feeding more though to be honest if it hasn't been 2 hours since I fed (and I know he got a solid feed last), I typically assume that something else is wrong and/or that he wants to suck a little and give him a pacifier. That said, he eats very regularly every 2 hours during the day (start of feed to start of feed) though he'l stretch it to 3 hours right in the middle of the day. He has seemed a bit fussier lately which may be related to a growth spurt?!?

I weighed myself the other day and then weighed myself holding him and the scale had a 13 lb difference. Is it possible for my 8 lb 3 oz baby to by 13 lbs around 5-6 weeks after he was born?! My first gained weight quick but wow.

@fannymae: I've definitely noticed that mine already has ideal awake periods and if we miss them, it is much harder to get him to fall asleep. If we hit them right, he'll generally fall and stay asleep by himself maybe with a pacifier and a bit of shushing (in a bouncer or vibrating bassinet, his crib - though that takes a tad more work). If I miss them and he's too tired, he'll hold his eyes open without blinking and will really only fall and stay asleep in our arms (which of course i love, but is a tad more challenging with a toddler).

@Miss Sarah: yep, definitely sounds like a growth spurt. Our little guy will be 7 weeks Sunday and has a growth spurt around the same time as Claire. For us it lasted maybe 3-4 days. It was tough!!
@FannyMae: it's getting easier for me to tell what he *should* be doing as well, but actually getting him to do it is still a struggle!! And with my family here for the next couple of days, any semblance of a loose routine is pretty much out the window.

@Miss Sarah: when do you have to go back to work? My return date is feb 1st, which will be 12 weeks. I'm dreading it already.

This one just took 12 ounces in 4 hours .... he is 4.5 weeks old. I think he didn't get enough yesterday with everyone at our house! I swear he kept his eyes closed all day so everyone would think he was asleep and not pass him around.

@wrkbrk: oh my! That's a lot!!

@FannyMae: that sounds like a really nice day. Do you like staying in for 40 days?

@Miss Sarah: DS cluster feeds everyyyyyy night. I'll take it for those long stretches at night!!

@Finfan: that's so nice. I hope to visit our extended families this summer, but it's a 12 hour drive or a pretty expensive flight.

My parents and sister & BIL are in town visiting and we were able to go out with my sister and BIL while my parents babysat. It was the first time I've been away for more than 2 hours and I missed DS so much!! He was so good for them and took his bottles really well and went down for the night without too much fuss at nine. I pumped 10 oz when I got home after being gone about 4 hours!! It's so nice having them visit. It's hard being so far away from our families.

@peaches1038: It wasn't total confinement thankfully, just not visiting people's homes or being outside of home at night. I went grocery shopping/the mall for quick errands for an hour or so, then back home. traditionally the first place you visit afterwards is your mother, so that was nice and relaxing.

Its lovely that you had family babysit LO for a few hours, it really helps clear the baby brain fog when you can get out for a bit (even if you're constantly thinking about babe!)

@peaches1038: 4.30 seems to be around my pumping time too - apparently early morning is the time that breasts are most productive. I've been pumping about 60ml (2oz) per breast after she has fed, and just froze my first little bag of milk.

Definitely in a baby cocoon here, even after my 40 days have passed I doubt I will be doing much visiting people til I get the hang of wrangling 2 kids.