Our little Jack Nolan has finally settled into a routine. It has felt like a long time coming, but to make a long story short, we found out that he just needed more to eat than my body could keep up with in order to be satisfied. He gets 2 bottles of formula a day, one before bed and one when he wakes in the night, and the rest of the time I breastfeed him. I cannot begin to tell you the difference this has made. At first I felt a little bit like a failure that I could not provide all that he needed, but now that I see how much happier and content he is and that is all that matters. For a week now he has been going to bed at 9:00 and not waking up into 5:00am, taking a bottle and then going back down until about 8:00am. I feed him then and he is awake and alert for a couple of hours, he has tummy time for a few minutes and then he gets tired of it and rolls over onto his back (he can hold his head up great!), when he is on his back he kicks like crazy! He is also now focusing on things with ease and loves to watch his mommy and daddy! He giggled for the first time a couple of days ago and it was the sweetest thing I have ever heard! He smiles and coos and is just the love of our lives! He is also napping during the day, several 1.5-2 hour naps every day, bless his little heart I think he must be catching up from the lack of sleep he had the first few weeks of his life out of the womb (me and dustin are catching up too!).
I have never known such joy...or love...being a mommy is amazing! Even when we were getting zero sleep (no exaggeration)!
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