D is putting on weight, only 10g, but it is better than losing weight so both we and the doctors are happy. He is also returning to a more normal pink colour from the brown/purple/yellow that he has been sporting since Monday.
Now that we've had them home for a couple of nights it is starting to sink in exactly what we have let ourselves in for.
Breast feeding is easy for Dad and fairly convenient for Mum, the milk is convenient to carry, warm and sterile (if a little uncomfortable apparently). The pump (milking machine as I prefer to call it) means that each feed requires half an hour of pumping and a lot of faffing with bottle brushes, kettles and sterilizers. We have also found out the hard way that the special bottles that we have to use cannot stand being in a sterilizer because it makes them shrink so the lid doesn't fit. Thankfully we only did 1 of the only 2 available in the hospital so we still have one to use!
After 2 nights of interrupted sleep the memories are coming back of what it is like to have a small baby in the house. J only woke up once and was thankfully satisfied that I gave him a new dummy so he went back to sleep.
This weekend I think we will try to plan a small vacation and think about the other things that have to be done around the house now that D is home. I am hoping we can look for a bike trailer too so that I can continue to get some exercise whilst also taking J out of the way for a while.
Take good care all of you, you've had an exciting/unexpectedly intense week. I bet MK is glad to be back home.
ReplyDeleteI really like little D's name ... how did you arrive at it?
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K was MKs maternal grendfather and D came from a long list that was shortened over a long period by each crossing out our least favourite remaining names. Victor was the other remaining name, but I prefered D.
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