Samuel's First Night at Home

Well, we had our first night....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... at home with little.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...... Samuel. :-) Needless to say, we haven't had a lot of sleep. We think he had a bit of a gassy stomach. He is a little tooting machine as well! (He is his father's son after all!) :-) He didn't fuss too much last night, just had trouble getting good and asleep. Carrie and I traded out shifts as best we could. We both worked with him off and on till about 1 am. Carrie took him till about 4 am. I took him from about 4:30 to 7:30. All in all, we each got a few hours sleep, but not much. We aren't ready to trade him in or anything!

Today, he has been a sleepy head. Of course, that just means he'll be wide eyed and bushy tailed tonight! We had a follow up visit at Denton Regional today, they were watching him for jaundice. With Carrie having had gestational diabetes, he was at risk. He did have a little jaundice, so they will check him again tomorrow to see if it is improving or getting worse.

They also weighed him, and that is something we would all ask you to pray about as well. Nothing to be alarmed about, it is normal for a breast fed baby to lose weight while you are waiting for the milk to come in, but his was a little more than normal. He has lost 10 1/2 ounces, going from 7 lbs 14 oz, to 7 lbs 3.5 oz. They have us supplementing with an ounce of formula at every feeding now, so we hope this will help.

Here are our prayer requests:

1. Pray the jaundice improves.
2. Pray Carrie's milk will come in soon.
3. Pray the supplemental formula will help him keep his weight up.
4. Pray we will shake the rust off on this baby business and manage this sleeplessness! :-)

Thank you all for your love and prayers. We love the posts, so keep em coming when you can. It has been great to hear from so many of you. (to leave a comment, look below whichever post you want to comment on, and click the word comments. Should be self explanatory after that) So I guess we'll sign off for now.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. :-)

Here are a few of pics from today!

If you people don't hurry up and feed me, I'm going to gnaw my hand off!!!!!!!
(We hope the bib is not a sign of things to come!) :-)

Finally, a little something on the tummy!



Man, that feels good on the tummy!