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Yesterday, Alex was 50 days old, but I was a bit busy to post.
It's been a busy 7 weeks, with many ups and downs (quite a lot of downs including the washing machine flooding the floor, two sterilisers breaking - hard water and electric steam sterilisers aren't very compatible, two bouts of mastitis, painful and with high temperatures, for me and a lot of just general OMG small baby ETIRED), and jolly hard going at times. It's getting easier though. Breastfeeding didn't get off the ground for various reasons I shall not go into here, so I expressed for a few weeks to give him the benefit of my milk, but we have switched to formula now. Expressing is the worst of both worlds, really, all the sterilising to do, time consumed in extracting the milk as well as changing and feeding leaves very little time for sleeping and a nightmare if baby wants something while you're tied to a milking machine.
Alex is now 8lb 11oz (3.94kg), up from 6lb 1oz (2.765kg) at birth, and is following the 2nd centile growth curve happily. He's small, but that is not really a surprise considering my (lack of) height, Ganesh's slimness and the rest of our families are not exactly big. He's finally fitting newborn baby clothes and outgrown the size below - I somehow doubt 0-3 months clothes will stop swamping him before he's 3 months old. We have rather a lot of 0-3 months clothes (presents mainly) which are waiting for him. He's now "woken up" and is getting more interactive. He's meeting our eyes, occasionally smiling (muscular smile, which is an advance on windy smiles but not quite social smiles). His facial expressions have always been marvellously expressive (though incomprehensible sometimes) but with the smile too he can be a delight to watch. He sometimes manages to suck his thumb, but not consistently, and has had a go at batting dangling toys though again not consistently (not quite got the depth perception perhaps). He's sometimes grouchy for hours, sometimes cheerfully playful. Out and about, he's rather a charmer - flirting with ladies of all ages even when asleep.
It's been a busy 7 weeks, with many ups and downs (quite a lot of downs including the washing machine flooding the floor, two sterilisers breaking - hard water and electric steam sterilisers aren't very compatible, two bouts of mastitis, painful and with high temperatures, for me and a lot of just general OMG small baby ETIRED), and jolly hard going at times. It's getting easier though. Breastfeeding didn't get off the ground for various reasons I shall not go into here, so I expressed for a few weeks to give him the benefit of my milk, but we have switched to formula now. Expressing is the worst of both worlds, really, all the sterilising to do, time consumed in extracting the milk as well as changing and feeding leaves very little time for sleeping and a nightmare if baby wants something while you're tied to a milking machine.
Alex is now 8lb 11oz (3.94kg), up from 6lb 1oz (2.765kg) at birth, and is following the 2nd centile growth curve happily. He's small, but that is not really a surprise considering my (lack of) height, Ganesh's slimness and the rest of our families are not exactly big. He's finally fitting newborn baby clothes and outgrown the size below - I somehow doubt 0-3 months clothes will stop swamping him before he's 3 months old. We have rather a lot of 0-3 months clothes (presents mainly) which are waiting for him. He's now "woken up" and is getting more interactive. He's meeting our eyes, occasionally smiling (muscular smile, which is an advance on windy smiles but not quite social smiles). His facial expressions have always been marvellously expressive (though incomprehensible sometimes) but with the smile too he can be a delight to watch. He sometimes manages to suck his thumb, but not consistently, and has had a go at batting dangling toys though again not consistently (not quite got the depth perception perhaps). He's sometimes grouchy for hours, sometimes cheerfully playful. Out and about, he's rather a charmer - flirting with ladies of all ages even when asleep.