Sleepless American

Well, it's official, Elliot is a real person and a real American - he got his birth certificate and his social security card! (the government is watching you now my son)
In other news, someone asked me how many times a day he nurses and so I've been counting: an average of 12 in a 24 hour period. So that's basically every two hours except that it's a bit further apart in the late night and closer together during the day. I'm seriously immobile for most of the time that I am awake because I'm on the couch trying not to sit on my tailbone as he suckles away happy as can be. But this week I've started to pump so hopefully Josh can take over the occasional feeding and allow me a much needed nap. Pumping is weird, but I have to start storing up a stash in the freezer for when I return to work, plus being able to have a bottle sort of expands our ability to travel. So far we haven't been able to go very far because of the frequent nursing, and I'm not adept at it enough to be able to do it discreetly in public, not that I'm shy (people who have visited can attest to that!) but in public people would definitely stare and I'm not down with that. So, now that Elliot is about 4 weeks old it's ok to introduce a bottle and pacifier without fear of nipple confusion (as long as we don't do it too often).

One thing I wish this kid would do more of take real naps during the day, he's sort of stopped doing that lately. After the 8am nursing he's pretty much awake and wanting to be entertained and it used to be that by 1pm he would take a nice 2-3 hour nap (and so would I!) but now he's given up on that and traded it in for tiny 10, 20, or 30 minute naps randomly throughout the day until he goes to sleep at night. This is rough for me because it means I can't have a real nap either, being that I'm an on-demand feeding machine. I'm constantly amazed at how much energy he has, compared to the average newborn/infant he sleeps less and eats more, which means he's just bursting with energy, how could something so small and unknowing command so much of himself to life?