Noah's Two Weeks Old

Noah is 2 weeks old today. In celebration of his 2-week birthday, we visited his pediatrician for his first well baby visit. Noah weighs 7lbs 8oz. He's gained almost one half a pound since last Friday. Noah's pediatrician said he looks great. He has a little bit of reflux that we will watch, but otherwise he's doing super. No immunizations today. We'll start those at his next visit, when he's 2 months old.

We're still working on nursing. Noah's getting plenty to eat, but he needs a lot of help to figure out what he's doing when he's nursing. We hope as he grows, he'll learn and nursing will become easier for all of us. The doctor did say that we no longer need to keep track of his feeding schedule. We can feed him on demand. This means that we won't have to wake him up at night to feed him every couple of hours. We'll just wait for Noah to let us know he's hungry and we'll feed him then. Hopefully this will help all of us get a little bit more sleep.

Here's a recent photo of Noah doing his "Superman." He likes to stretch his arms up high above his head and practice flying.

Routine, What Routine?

Thanks to everyone who has been checking in on us the last couple of weeks. We like hearing from you and appreciate all the support, even if we aren't very good at getting back to you in a timely manner yet. A common question friends and family keep asking is whether we have developed any kind of routine yet. To this I must say... huh, routine? There seems to be no such thing with Noah at this point in time. His wants and needs change day by day. One day he wants to sleep the morning away and we have to wake him to feed him every couple of hours. The next day he'll be wide awake from 9am to 2pm and wanting to nurse every hour. We never know what the next day will bring. As new parents, we're trying to take it all in stride and hopefully we're learning along the way. We hope we'll have things figured out and a routine developed before Eric has to go back to work the day before Christmas.

On Friday, our neighbors Steve and Sarah from across the street brought us a chicken pot pie to throw in the oven for dinner. What a nice surprise! We don't know Steve and Sarah very well, but chat as often as we see them out in their front yard. It was so wonderful to throw dinner in the oven without having to worry about who was going to prepare the meal and what we should eat. We've also been lucky to have Grandma Barb bring dinner one night and some of Jen's friends bring lunch last week. Normally, we would feel guilty having so many people doing things to take care of us, but we're finding ourselves so busy learning to take care of Noah that we don't have time for much else. Every little thing that our friends and family have done for us is greatly appreciated. And we figure we'll have the opportunity to return the favor some day in the future.

Right now Noah's having a peaceful slumber in his brand new borrowed swing. We are finding that many of the things we got for Noah before he was born are a bit too big for him. This is okay because he'll grow into them, but it has been posing a challenge in the short term. We have made a couple of runs to the store to pick up a few essentials like newborn size clothes. We also found that our swing and bouncy seat are much too big for Noah, but fortunately our friend Timi came to the rescue and loaned us the swing and bouncy seat her kids used but have since outgrown. Noah seems to be living it up in his brand new borrowed digs. Thanks!

That's all for now. Back to figuring out a routine with Noah...