Really??? I guess this is what motherhood is like....

Babies are so funny.

X is eating well, although very feedings are very close together at one to one and a half hours in between. I guess he is going through a growth spurt. Hopefully we can stretch the feedings back out to 3 hours. This whole constant feeding thing is getting to be a drag on me and the boobs. 

I never realized just how much a tiny baby can produce in the way of pee and poo. I laughed so hard today. I was changing X and talking to him, and then all of a sudden, a geyser shoots up and X ended up peeing all over me, the table and his poor little face. That startled the crap out of him. He's finally changed and cleaned up now. I think I need to invest in a PeePee TeePee. 

This parenting thing is a trip. I absolutely love looking in the crib and seeing X's little face and eyes looking up at me. He makes the cutest little noises and is so gentle.  However, the 3 feedings in the middle of the night followed by frantic crying and rampant spitting up, is not that sweet. We've had our first explosive poop, explosive spit up, and all of my pants and the bed sheets are covered in some sort of baby excrement. It's funny, but I always thought that having a baby spit up or poo on me would gross me out. Nursing also causes you to leak from your boobs sometimes. It hardly even phases me when these things happen. 

I just go through the motions of solving the problem and move on.

I haven't slept since I left to go to the hospital. When I do sleep, it is in spurts of 30 minutes to 2 hours if I'm lucky. Several times over the past few days I have found myself dozing off while feeding the baby. Tired tired. Not to mention my whole body is still killing me. Vicodin isn't giving me any relief right now. Darn stitches!!

X is 6 days old now.   Almost one week old. All throughout the pregnancy, I was convinced I would be a terrible, incompetent mother. I would see all of the other mothers out there that made it look so easy, and think that I could never match up. Surprisingly, A and I have tuned in to parenting pretty quickly. It's like as soon as you leave the hospital, an imaginary switch clicks on. While we still have SO much to learn and we've already made some mistakes, I think so far we are doing a pretty darn good job.