One month

Dexter is amazing, cute, and adorable! He's chunked up quite a bit, now weighing 10 pounds with chubby chipmunk cheeks and a double chin. He has pretty good head control already and can lift his head on his own. He's very observant, just as bright eyed as when he was born. When Dex is on his tummy he kicks and wiggles, he's able to scoot himself a few inches. Also, he's out of newborn diapers and into size one! Dexter loves his swing, he spends a lot of time in it & falls asleep quite easily with the movement.  He's started cooing to communicate (as well as ear piercing shrieks & cries.) Dex is also able to stand, with assistance.

Adjusting to being a new mother is quite the adventure! Dexter is letting me sleep through most of the night already. He only wakes me up once or twice during the night. As a new mom I'm so terrified of breaking him. I'm paranoid of everything! His stool looked off colored to me, so now I'm off dairy and soy. The doctor said that his little digestive system may not be able to process the proteins that are passed into my breast milk. Hopefully this will help! After a couple of weeks with no dairy, his stool has started to be the yellow mustardy color that it's supposed to be and I hope it helps his fussing! He's been a pretty mellow baby except at night when he just fusses up a storm and is hard to console. Though, I also think he fusses to fight sleep. There's just to much to see and do to sleep!!!  I understand that well, I remember fighting sleep as a little, I didn't want to miss anything.

 

I'm still on an emotional roller coaster. Some days are better than others. And sometimes I will just cry with Dexter when he fusses and I can't figure out what he needs. I've gotten a new body from pregnancy, that's taking some getting used to. I don't like it some of the time, there are moments I wish I had my pre-pregnancy body back.

Hubby just loves the roller coaster! Some moments I will be loving on him and so happy, then a few moments later I'll be mad about something. He's been quite wonderful about it though and very understanding when I fly off the handle or just break down in tears.

Dexter and I both love going on walks around our condo loop and baby wearing. Those are our happy moments and we enjoy bringing dad and our pup out on our walks too.