All continues to go well. We have been blessed with a baby who cries little and loves to be held. We have been working on giving him opportunities to spend time lying a variety of places on his own, both at night and during the day.
He is growing and eating lots. Despite the doctor's initial concern about weight gain (or loss), on Thursday he weighed 7 lbs. 5 oz., only 2 oz. shy of his birth weight. He has likely met or surpassed that today. He changes daily, as newborns do and loves to look around at things during his awake aware times.
We have 2 days alone, as the grandparents have headed home or off on short vacations in California. It has been very wonderful to have the help and support of our mothers during this transition phase and there are a couple of things that will likely be challenging until my incision heals, but we will get by.
Jeff goes back to work Sunday night/Monday morning, so I will have my nights alone and my daytime with him sleeping. I'm not too concerned about night time, as long as Benji continues to sleep relatively well. We really have only had 2 tough nights, the night after his bris and the night after we went to fighter practice. The hardest part about that has been that while I am still partially asleep, he is crying and not willing to eat. I find I'm just not awake enough to realize that maybe something else should be done to calm him. It is coming along and things will hopefully be not too bad.
The bris was lovely and our mohel was great. We had a small ceremony at home with close friends and family. Benji did amazingly well during the whole thing and there are great pictures to be uploaded in the near future.
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When you have time will you put some pics somewhere printable (like kodakgallery or shutterfly)? Glad all is going well!
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