March 13th - Traveling Part Dos

So yesterday we did feedings at 6, 9, 12, 3, 6, and 9 with 3.5 ounces at all feedings except the 9 PM feeding had 4.5 ounces. He stayed awake 6-8 AM, 12-2, and 6-8:30 PM. He slept until about 1:00 AM and then squeaked from 1-3. Every time I would check (you know, throw my hand in the bassinet trying to find his mouth to see if he would suck) he showed no interest. At some point I plucked him out and laid him on his side facing me with my arms around him and that settled him until just after 3 when he finally showed signs that he was hungry. He ate, burped, snuggled, and by 4:00 we were both back to sleep. It took him a bit to settle and then he finally went to sleep. At about 6:00 Jesse came in to get dressed for work and Adin started squeaking again. In my half awake exhausted stupor I got out of bed, turned off the bedroom light (the light in the closet was on) and got back in bed. I think I mumbled something like "I don't want him to wake up yet" - however within minutes Adin was wide awake. 

We also had the very last visit from Karen, our visiting nurse. Adin weighed in at a whopping 7 lbs 1 oz. My goodness!!! 

Tomorrow is his actual due date, so it's very interesting to look at him now and picture him inside of my belly. There's no way he would have fit in my belly. I commented to Karen that I would have had a 7 lb baby - and she commented back that he probably would have been bigger given that in the womb he wouldn't be burning as many calories. 

To celebrate his "due date" tomorrow we will be doing his hand and foot prints. I thought that was fitting given that that's a date we don't want to forget and he was in NICU for almost the first 2 weeks so we missed the newborn prints.