C'ing The Good Life: Update and Pictures

Here's our little angel...

Will has had a great week. Mommy and Daddy had a busy-to-rough week. Last Monday, we found out our top two daycares will not have a spot for Will unless another kid leaves, until January. So we had to start another search, and are visiting a couple of places this week.

Tuesday, at our peds visit, we found that Will was only up to 6 pounds 7 ounces, a much slowed rate of growth. He had barely broken birthweight at 4 and a half weeks. We ended up starting to supplement with formula. We spent the past week doing the pumped breastmilk plus formula to make sure he was getting 2 ounces per feeding. (Mommy did not take this great, but the goal is for Will to grow strong and healthy, so it is all good.)

Results have been great! Today Will was up to 7 pounds 5 ounces at our peds visit. A huge growth! After a few days of the increased volume he has been eating up to 4 or 5 ounces at a feeding, and sleeping for longer periods. He is also more alert and social.

I went to Lactation Consultant #3 this week, and have lots of strategies to try to keep him growing for now and help him get back onto the breast as he gets bigger. We are heading to ENT to check out his tongue Thursday, and I have a new pump to try. Ultimately, we are just glad he is growing.

In other, very fun news, Will has started giving us true social smiles and is much more interactive.

Over this past weekend, the four of us (Maddie came along, too), went to Rocky Mount for a quick family visit, and to meet Aunt Kelly and Uncle Alex. We also got to see lots of other family and near-family while we where there, including Great-Aunt Alicia, and Cousins Nick and Kate.

Aunt Liz helped out at my house, when Daddy went back to work.