Week 3

Despite being only 6 lbs 8 oz at birth, Carter is looking chubby these days. Last week at his two week check up, he weighed 7 lbs 6 oz. He was only 6 lbs 3 oz when we left the hospital (baby's loose weight after birth), so he had put on over a whole pound in one week. I can only imagine what he weighs now. I'm guessing that he's at 8 lbs or over by now.

The days are going by despite a pretty boring routine: Feedings at 1 am, 4 am, and 7 am, a morning of trying to get Carter to sleep, lunch, a nice 2hr long nap in the afternoon where I catch up on sleep, dinner, Carter takes another evening nap, and finally around 10 pm, we pray that he'll go to sleep. During the day, I'm nursing him every two hours. It's pretty amazing how little time I have to do things throughout the day. If I'm not feeding him, I'm trying to take a nap. The good news is that for the past three nights he's been sleeping for three hours at a stretch, which makes my days slightly more bearable. I've already forgotten what it's like to have a "normal" life - go to work, be able to leave the house, go for a swim...

Carter is also suffering from what looks like pretty bad gas. He curls up and makes grunting sounds, sometime shrieking. Poor guy. I've stopped eating things that typically give babies gas (broccoli, cabbage, etc.), and I've been nursing him in a more upright position. But, I read that babies have pretty undeveloped digestive systems and are just prone to gas pain until they reach three months. It's hard to watch him in pain, but I can't stop feeding him. If you all could only hear him fart though! It's so loud!

Today we went and applied for Carter's passport. They made us take him out of his car seat (which he loves and falls asleep in) and put him on a white sheet on the floor. His passport photo is a picture of him crying and his face is all red from screaming. The minute we put him back into his car seat, he was happy again. Go figure. Hopefully we'll get his passport back before we our trip to Sydney in September. Then it's Costa Rica in November and San Francisco in December. Carter will have racked up quite a few miles by the time he turns six months old.

For more photos, check out the photos that I posted on Facebook.