1 Month

I've sat down to write a post about 5 times, and haven't been able to finish it! Dominic is already a month old and he's already changed so much, and I really wish I would have recorded more of it here. I'm going to try and be more diligent about it, and my apologies in advance if you are just here looking for knitting content. He's sleeping right now so let's see how fast I can type (apologizing in advance for spelling and grammatical errors)


Sleepy baby


I'm one month old! Mommy and Daddy celebrated the event a little extravagantly...



It's amazing how much he has changed in 1 month, from his physical appearance to his alertness level. He already has pretty good neck control and strength in his legs. Matt keeps talking about how he thinks this means he'll be crawling early; let me tell you I am not ready for that because it's a nice luxury to not have to watch him every second to make sure he doesn't get into something.



He loves the Baby Bjorn... but with the top folded down so he can look at everything. Still a little too early to face him outwards, but I'm sure he'll love it even more once we can do that.

We are on somewhat of a schedule which is nice. He's sleeping for five hours at night, from 11pm-4am, waking up to feed, then sleeping for another two hours. I take the 4am feed and Matt takes 6am, which is allowing each of us to get some decent rest.

Of course, this is possible because Dominic decided early on that breast feeding was not for him. It broke my heart at first, but I got over it quickly because I hated fighting with him and watching him scream every time we attempted to feed. He's much happier with the bottle, and I've gotten used to pumping 6 times a day. We give him formula every now and then (it helps him sleep better at night), but he's eating about 95% breast milk. I'm not sure how long i'll be able to keep doing it, but for now it's working for us.


We take him out of the house almost every day, and in turn he's been doing great in noisy places - he'll just sleep! Hey if he's going to bottle-feed, mama is going to enjoy some wine! His first trip out of the house, he was only 4 days old. I can definitely say that doing this has really helped my recovery and dealing with the looong days of pumping, feeding, washing bottles, soothing baby, repeat.

I'm just loving being a mom, and I can't believe how fast it's going. He's waking up now so I'll end this post here... but one last photo, of Dom is his first handknit: