Mommy Support Group

Rudy and I had a solo outing yesterday to go to a "Mommy Support Group" at Memorial Hospital. The group is led by their lactation consultant who is also a nurse. There were several moms and their babies there yesterday. It was pretty unorganized but between Barb (the lactation lady) and the other moms, I was able to get all my questions answered that I had written down. Of course when I got home John said, "did you ask about this? Did you ask about that? Etc"...so I already have a list going for next week!  One huge relief was that Barb said I could feed on Rudy's schedule now that he is over 2 weeks old...basically, just feed when he is hungry.  Even though this could still be every 2 hours, its nice to not have to worry about waking him up - especially at night!

Rudy did really well. I think he likes the stroller and car seat a lot (as long as he's not hungry). He was alert and happy the whole way there and for ab the first 20 min of class. Then he fell asleep the rest of the time.  I was able to weigh him and he was 9 lbs, 5 oz...so almost a whole pound since we went home!  

Rudy has been realllllllly needy lately!  He likes to be held and bounced around when he's awake...and that's about all he will settle for.  And to sleep, we are lucky if he will stay asleep in his bassinet.  He sleeps so much better either laying on John or I's chest or right next to one of us, which makes nap times not so productive!  About half of the time he will stay awake after being fed.  Which is fine except when those awake times are after a night feeding!  John stayed up with him the other night from about 4 am to 7 am before he had to go do tree work with Dad.  But last night he slept 4.5 hours twice...I fed at 8 pm, 12:30 am and then 5 am -- all of which he fell asleep pretty soon after (of course one sleep time was on my chest and the other was next to me).  I was really against the whole co-sleeping thing, but if it gets all of us some sleep and everything I read suggests its "the best"...well its another thing to add to my list I never thought I'd do until lack of sleep thinking took over!  I am going to get out the Moby wrap and see if I can figure that out.  Maybe he will like that and I'll be able to do more while he is being needy.  I'll let you know how it goes!  

Other than that, everything is great!  Rudy is growing and changing so fast.  He is starting to have more distinguished characteristics and I love it.  He is just as cute as can be!  I feel like a broken record, but "I can't believe its been..." almost 3 weeks.