Geez this baby is growing fast, on Friday we had a doctor's appointment and he weighed 11lbs. 10oz. already, he'll be 12lbs by the end of this week! Since I've started pumping I looked up online how many ounces he would need per feeding and it's abut 2.5oz. on the higher end for most babies. Well we tried that and it did NOT satisfy him one bit, he still needed 20 minutes of boobie to be (temporarily) full. I mentioned this to the pediatrician and she said "but you have a big baby" meaning whatever I see online to be the average I should just add another 50% for Elliot. Fee Fie Fo Fum, I hope i'm not raising a future bully, jock, or fat kid in school, but what's a mother to do? Ain't no way I'm putting a hungry baby on a diet!
In other news, we had our very first big day out with the baby and aside from the fact that I was an exhausted walking zombie at the end (having had little sleep the night before and being deprived of my own much needed nap that day) it was fantastic. Josh played a show at the Hastings festival and afterwards we went to a late night bbq. Elliot was being passed around like a photo prop and he got to see his daddy play music for the first time :) He hardly cried at all except to tell me that he's hungry but as usual everyone commented on a what a good baby he is (because no one sees his dark side!). Sure, I spent a lot of time in the back seat of our friends' car breastfeeding but at the end of the day I finally got the courage to just do it in public for the very first time.
Aside from a 40 minute nap during the car ride on the way there, Elliot was awake and alert all day, he was all wide eyed and looking around, soaking it all up, making all sorts of neural connections about what life is all about. It was definitely a big day so by the time we got in the car to go to the bbq he was completely passed out and he stayed asleep the entire time we were there, which was several hours (he was indoors while the crowd was outside and it was weird to be hanging out almost as if we didn't have a baby, to be honest he was asleep so long that I started to miss him) and he only started to wake up when we were almost home. It was such a big day for me as well as him that we both spent the next day mostly napping. I'm glad the day went so well and it definitely gives me plenty of confidence about being out with him in the future, as long as there's stuff going on he's plenty happy and entertained so there's no need to fuss.
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