I wanted to post earlier, but we had a decently busy weekend and when Jeff is around I would much rather hang out with him and be productive than sit here and type on the laptop :).
Sleep - Simon is very slowly increasing his sleep ability to sleep longer at night. In general, he's actually a pretty good sleeper at night, usually goes down right away after eating (but sometimes falling asleep before he gets a full feeding in). He has more problems sticking to a schedule of naps during the daytime. On the weekend I tried to stick to a 3 hour schedule of naps, eating, etc, but that quickly dissolved when he started becoming fussy and wouldn't go to sleep for an hour. He is always visibly tired (yawns, starts fidgeting a lot) but then fights actually falling asleep. Oh well. I'm about to give up putting him on a strict schedule during the day as it just doesn't seem to work well and it ends up causing more stress than it's worth. I'm aiming a little lower now and will try to have him get at least two chunky (>1 hr) naps per day.
Eating - for the most part, a good eater; definitely has a pattern of cluster feeding/comfort feeding at night and to some extent in the morning as well. He does have an occasional episode of vomiting up everything he's just eaten -- the last time was on Thursday and we had to wash quite a few things... We're not sure why he seems to do this on occasion - at first I thought it was because we had been supplementing with formula and he would drink too much from the bottle, but now he does it with nursing too. My guess is that he is too hungry and gulps down a lot of air while nursing, and it doesn't come out with burping. Either that or he just eats too much.
Development - Simon is definitely gaining better head control. He likes to lift his head up now when I'm burping him and can hold it there for a little bit before his head swings one way or the other (this morning he swung his head into my nose. Ow.) He is definitely tracking a lot more with his eyes and has even starting cooing (sounds like he's saying "ooooh"). He smiles a lot but I'm not sure if it's purposeful yet. Conversely, he has also been crying a lot more and starts crying more quickly when something is bothering him. I read somewhere that crying/fussing peaks at 6 weeks so hopefully this will get better.
Simon also got repeat thyroid tests on Friday. He did really well just like last time - only cried a little bit when she poked his heel and then was ok while she got the blood even though the phlebotomist this time really sucked. Ugh. Makes me upset when I specifically request someone who is good with babies, and they are not. I almost never tell people I'm a doctor in these situations, because it just makes people more nervous, but maybe next time it will actually make them take me seriously. And then the results took forever to come back, and I was starting to really freak out and think that she didn't get enough blood. Luckily our peds endocrinologist is great and checked on the results for us, and they look good.
And now, after writing all of this, I am exhausted. Time to take a break...
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