What a long night it was for Easton and I. His appetite is growing each and every day. Instead of eating every 2 – 3 hours Easton thinks he has to eat every hour on the hour. Keep in mind that it takes around 30-45 minutes to start and finish one nursing. I feel like I’m constantly nursing him every second of the day. Nursing every hour at night has become exhausting. I’m not getting much sleep and its starting to wear on me a little. Even after I nurse him at night you would think he would just fall right a sleep..oh no..he is wide awake. Thankfully after I nurse him my mom is here to sit up with him afterwards and rock him. She has truly been a blessing over the course of the week by constantly helping me out with house work, laundry, making meals and getting up with me at night. I told Jesse today that after my mom leaves I’ll probably need his help more and more during the middle of the night. I know he has to get up and work every day but unfortunately I will not be able to continue like I have been on little to no sleep every day.
This morning my mom showed me how to give Easton a bath. While I was in the hospital the nurse had shown Jesse how to give Easton a bath but I was kind of too drugged up and couldn’t get up out of bed to actually watch her how to do it. To a point I knew kind of what to do but sometimes you just need a refresher every once in a while. It’s been a while since I’ve been around a newborn.
Easton enjoyed another outing today. My mom and I took him to Wal-mart and Target. He’s such a trooper. He did amazingly well with all the shopping we did today.
Very cute Jen! Hang in there. :)
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