8 weeks in

I'm back, for now. New blog...lifestyle, marriage, mommy blog. I missed you guys!

Baby E is just over 8 weeks old now. How time flies when you're having fun..and learning all sorts of new things..and not sleeping..and adjusting to a HUGE life change. But it's been amazing. Hard, but amazing.

He's getting so big. At is 6 week visit he was 13 1/2 lbs and just over 23 inches long. Everyone thinks he's way older than he is just because of his size. I'm exclusively breastfeeding, so the doctor says he's just a big healthy boy. After the NICU stay and scare with his heart, hearing that makes me so happy.

Speaking of breastfeeding, I'm so blessed to be able to do it, both because it's healthy and good for him and because formula is expensive!! But it's not fun. It's not awful or painful at the moment, although the first few weeks were rough, it's just...tiring. Being the sole source of food for another human being, having to wake up in the night, even if he's sleeping well because I have to feed him...it gets to be a little overwhelming sometimes. Z is great and gets up with him if he's fussy, or will sit with me while I feed him if I'm lonely or overwhelmed, and since I'm able to pump occasionally he'll let me sleep for 8-10 solid hours and just bottle feed him overnight with the pumped milk which is SUCH a life saver.

I'm going to do a post soon on the things we bought that I've loved having these first 2 months. I'm trying to get back into the groove of blogging. I wasn't feeling it before, which is why I quit but being home with the new baby...I miss the sense of community, I miss the bloggers, I miss having an outlet to pour all this stuff out to come back and look at later. So there's an update. He's doing really well holding his head up and doing little baby push ups, sleeps for 6 hours then 3-4 hours at night and is generally a perfect baby :)