3 weeks old already!

Wow! I can't believe that it has been 3 weeks since Seelie was born already! I only get little short periods of time during the day that I can read, watch tv, and play on the computer so I haven't really worked on Seelie's birth story yet. I still want to write it up, but I thought I'd do a quick update now instead.

The first two weeks were pretty hard for me. I was really tired and not getting any sleep. I think that having a newborn was a lot more challenging than I had ever imagined it would be. I also had the hormones going on and definitely had a case of the baby blues. I cried a good bit during the first two weeks, but the fog seemed to lift at about the 2 week mark.

Seelie is doing pretty well with the breastfeeding, but he absolutely refuses to latch on to my left breast. He does great on the right side though. So I'm just feeding him on the right and pumping on the left. I offer him the left side a couple of times a day and am hopeful that he will eventually take the left again. If not though I've been advised that he will be just fine if he only ever eats from the right. I am also getting a lot of good frozen milk supply saved up for when I go back to work which is nice. He still has times when he will pull off and scream bloody murder for awhile. I have figured out that most of the time it is one of two things 1) he slept too long and is over hungry or 2) he has gas that is bothering him. Most of the time it is reason 2 and if I can wait him out and soothe him long enough he will pass it and be ok. It can be really tough though when he cries for 20 minutes straight.

We have had a lot of visitors which can be really nice. The first week we had people everyday which got to be a little bit rough, but then in the second week it slowed down a lot. Now for the most part I look forward to visitors to break up the day. I enjoyed them all along, but during that first week I was just overly tired and would have loved an occasional nap that I wasn't able to get during the time when we had visitors.

Seelie is growing SO fast!! We took him to his 2 week checkup on 10/2. He weighed 9lbs 30z which was a whole pound more than his original birth weight! So he is eating and growing just fine. I can tell a difference in his face from the weight that he has put on so far too.

We have been taking lots of pictures of him and try to take one every day or every other day. I will try to post a few soon.

We started with the cloth diapers at about day 8 or 9 and have really been enjoying them. The disposables leaked a LOT and the cloth don't leak nearly as much. Really the times when he leaks tend to be when he is laying on us and it kind of comes out the side of the leg or if the top isn't tight enough and it comes out the top. He had a touch of diaper rash on his tush from the disposables but it doesn't seem to be bothering him much. I have been treating it some but not diligently. It was getting better and then just kind of has stayed the same, so I'm being more aggresive about putting the diaper rash cream on it. He doesn't seem bothered by it at all though at least.

I have been recovering from my C-section a lot better than I had imagined that I would. I had my staples out on 9/24 and the incision felt a lot better after that. I continued to take my pain meds for about a week and a half post partum, but then was able to stop them. I still have a little bit of soreness in my lower stomach area at times, but nothing major. I still have to be careful about lifting things and not overdoing it, but generally that isn't a problem. Tony is hear at home with me, so he does most of the chores and tells me to chill as much as possible. Basically all I do is eat, sleep, and feed the baby, with a little tv watching and internet surfing thrown in ;-) I am starting to get a little bit antsy about being stuck in the house so much. Also I'm struggling a little bit with being SO tied to Seelie. His schedule is well.. non existant. So I can't say at X time I'm going to feed him and then run to the store for an hour while he sleeps, because he could wake up and want to eat again 45 minutes after I lay him down OR he might sleep for 3 hours. I haven't quite gotten the hang of taking him places yet either. We have been to his doctor twice and my doctor once. Then on this past Tuesday I took him to a Breastfeeding support group that was about a 30 minute drive away. We ended up being there for 3 hours, so I fed him during that time and he pretty much slept the rest of the time. Other than those outings we have taken him next door to my grandma's house for Sunday dinner last Sunday and today. As much as I want to go on outings, they Really wear me out. So over the next week or two I'm hoping to get out a little bit more. Tony has been doing all of the grocery shopping which is Wonderful, but I told him that next time I want us to both go and take the baby just so I can get out. I did take a walk to the mailbox by myself yesterday which was REALLY nice and refreshing.

As for Seelie's name... It has a few different origins. The FBI guy on Bones is named Seeley, which is where I heard it as a first name. I also know a lady at work whose last name is Sealy, so it was on my mind from her also - she's a friend but we didn't name him after her. Also, there is a fantasy link that Tony liked. The term Seelie court refers to light fairies in scottish folklore, so he thought that was pretty cool. I just really liked the name and thought that it was very uncommon, but not at all weird. We tossed it around early on and it just stuck for me. We didn't decide on Dakota until a few minutes before they wheeled me away for the C-section. We had a really hard time agreeing on a middle name that we liked with Seelie and our last name, Peacock. I am happy with his name though and I think we did a good job :-)

Well, he is stirring from his nap now so I better wrap it up before he gets too fussy.