Family,
And a good afternoon to you from the Queen City, where Muffin Puffin is currently feeding the Munchkin and Sammy the Bull is organizing some photos of the rug rat. This is a big week for Team Taylor, as the Bull has proclaimed this week to be the "deadline for one-time birth activities." In other words, birth announcements, the first batch of thank you notes, the first order of photos, and the baby
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| A few things here: 1. Yes, my hair is AWESOME. 2. Yes, I am wearing a beer shirt from Cambodia. 3. Yes, the bib is larger than her torso. With the way she vomits, it's necessary (and STILL doesn't always catch everything. 4. YES, that is a "boy" outfit (Daddy's Little Helper with trucks). It was ONE DOLLAR at Target - enough said. |
book will all be send/up to date by the time the sun sets on Sunday. Check in with me in 168 hours time to see whether or not that actually transpires... :-)
5 weeks in, and things continue to get a bit easier. Now that Jenny's pumping full-time, we as a couple definitely feel more relaxed and are happy with the increased flexibility permitted with that type of schedule. As a father, I'm thrilled that I can help out more, and Perfect Pumpkin and I are getting into the rhythm of alternating feeds throughout the course of the day (which is still on more or less a 3 hour schedule).
For the rug rat, she's growing like a WEED. Seriously - outfits that swallowed her whole 2 weeks ago now fit, and a few outfits are even snug. How is that POSSIBLE?!?!?! As her body develops, she's definitely becoming more efficient at eating (she's taking anywhere from 110 to 150 ml's in a shot, which is anywhere from 30%-100% more than the targets were during out last visit to the lactation consultant). She's becoming a better burper, and Jenny and I are getting more comfortable about placing her over our shoulder (which is accelerating the speed at which she burps, as well as the volume that comes out). In fact, Jenny and I have "seen the light" and started putting a bib on her during feedings, which is DEFINITELY making clean-up easier. However, just to prove that parents are never really in control, Kaitlyn has developed the ability to PROJECTILE VOMIT AN OCEAN OF MILK after a feed, and this deluge can occur anytime between 30 seconds after feeding and 90 minutes after the last drop is consumed. 2 days ago I'm pretty sure she puked up enough milk to fill Lake Superior (which SATURATED the changing table, the waterproof liner, and her outfit, for the record - good times. Oh, and then she PEED A RIVER to add to the bevy of fluids floating around the table. Talk about creating a new "bag of waters..." - nice.
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| K doing the Beyonce dance - "If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it..." |
As for wake time, we are DEFINITELY seeing strides in the right direction. This morning she had 1 hour of wake time after 30 minutes of feeding, which is exactly what Babywise (also known as our parenting Gospel at present) says we should be going for. It is a big tricky to keep her up and active during the day (especially when you have to wake her), but the good news is that she is sleeping more in the evening (up to 4.5 hours at a time - it is AMAZING what another 30-60 minutes of sleep will do to make you feel human). We're still experimenting with how best to "cluster feed" her at night, but I do think progress is being made (and will continue to be made over the coming weeks). Wake time this morning consisted of a diaper change (ALWAYS a necessity with this one, as she is a NON-STOP pooping and peeing machine. Seriously, her diaper weighs about 47 pounds when you haul it to the genie), reading the book from Chuck and Cat (in black and white since baby's can't see color at this age), an attempt to read Peppa Pig (K has ZERO interest in that book at present, and when I start doing my horrendous British accents she looks at me as though I'm a total stranger before spacing out to just stare at the ceiling), tummy time (she was NOT interested today, but recently she's done TERRIFIC work at raising her head and keeping it elevated - she's even lowering it with some control), and then time on the swing looking at the little critters dangling down. I then picked her up and showed her our world map, rattling off some information about the US and Canada (I'm trying to keep it to 2 countries a day, but I expect her to have all countries memories - WITH capitols - by age 1, of course...) before taking her back to the couch for another read of "Look, Look!", at which point she vomited a river onto the couch and my UCI Fightin' Anteaters shirt. Good thing it already has so many stains that this one isn't even distinguishable.
Okay, back to thank you notes and photo folder organization for this guy. Progress continues to be made - ever forward!
Love,
Sam and Jenny
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