walks and poops

today maria is 5 weeks old!

hmmm. . . . what happened this weekend?

friday morning i took my first 'solo' walk with maria and daisy. we went about a half-mile and maria was awake for about 200 feet of that walk. on friday afternoon, my friend sara stopped by and brought lunch. she watched maria for a little bit while i took a shower.

on saturday i (amelia) mowed the yard and cut down some annoying vines that grow over the fence from our neighbor's yard. chris was super great about taking care of maria overnight and all day saturday and sunday. on saturday she got a bath. she is getting more comfortable with bath time and we are getting better about not drowning her. we took a little walk sunday afternoon so chris could use the baby bjorn that my brother gave us. chris was pretty excited about using the bjorn. he's been waiting years to carry a baby in front of him. it was the most spontaneous thing we have done in 5 weeks. so spontaneous that we didn't have the camera.

i haven't entirely given up on breastfeeding but i had to make the executive decision that i just can't provide anywhere near enough for maria. we've been giving her more and more formula. more formula has led to less poop but the poop that comes out is amazingly gross!! i'm doing my best to give her as much breastmilk as i can in hopes that her poo gets better. it probably won't. i haven't been grossed out by her poop until last night. it was really bad. it was the first time i wanted to wear scrubs and a surgical mask and gloves to change her. she was smiling the entire time. that little stinker.

4 weeks!

today maria is 4 weeks old and what a day it has been. she woke up at 7am spitting up. i got her cleaned up, diaper changed, and calmed down. then i fed her about 8. she cried until 9. i fed her at 9. then she cried until 10 so i fed her at 10. this went on until after noon. she went to sleep about 5 minutes before chris came home for lunch. she and i slept until about 2:30pm. i fed her at 3pm then she cried until 4pm, so i fed her at 4pm then she cried until 5pm. she fell asleep 5 minutes before chris came home for the day. she woke up and started crying about halfway through our dinner. so guess what? i fed her. she thanked me with a huge blow it out the side poop diaper. chris cleaned her up while i cleaned myself up. then guess what? yeah- i fed her some more. chris took over maria care for the night and i took a shower. she has been asleep the whole time for chris.

so the theme today is i got all the spit up, poop, crying, sore nipples from feeding, more crying and more crying. chris gets all the sweet baby sleepy breathy noises and snuggles. all i have to say is- mom, if you are reading this and i did this to you- i am soooooooo sorry!