We had a very busy, stressful first week with Edward. First, I was on bedrest and was not allowed to leave my bedroom. We had some breastfeeding issues and needed to get a lactation consultant to come out since Edward was not getting enough to eat and was becoming lethargic. We also went ahead and got his frenectomy done to take care of his tongue-tie and it made a big change in the breastfeeding issues. We were able to stop the supplemental pumping and syringe feeding. Yay!
EJ is doing fabulous and only lost 10 ounces of his birth weight. He weighed in at 8 pounds 4 ounces with the lactation consultant (one of the midwives from the birth center) on Thursday 6/6. We had a pediatrician appointment on 6/11 and he weighed in at 8 pounds 8 ounces so he was gaining some weight. Then at our 2 week check-up at the birth center, he weighed in at 8 pounds 11 ounces. Woot! I know the scales were all different, so it could be off, but at least he is gaining since they wanted him to be back to his birth weight by 2 weeks old.
Without further ado, here are some photo’s of the first week with EJ:
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