Friday, November 23, 2007

Dorian is a little person now

Wow, in the past week, Dorian has reached some major developmental milestones. He is now 5 weeks, 3 days old and can:

Drink from the bottle. Mama's been pumping! We've only tried this once - he sucked on the bottle right away and drank the whole thing. However, he did get fussy toward the end of the feeding. We don't know whether this was because he was still hungry or whether he wanted to suckle Mama's breast (he is a HUGE Mama's boy and very attached to her at the moment, so much so that he will often cry if anyone else even holds him!)
Smile. James and Grandma have both gotten direct smiles. Mama has seen him smile when he's looking off into the distance and also when he's sleeping. More smiles to come, I'm sure!
Soak up Vitamin D (not for too long, as he can not wear sunscreen until he's older).
Spend more time awake and interacting with people, especially with Daddy who loves to try to make him smile!
Sit quietly on his own for a few minutes (any longer than this and he starts crying for human company - it's a start!)
Take a bath in the big bath.
And in the even bigger bath!
Make Mama laugh with his funny faces.
Wiggle - this boy can seriously move. He's going to be turning over before we know it!
Lounge. Look at him with his head resting on his hand and his legs crossed!
Track movement - Grandpa was moving his hand up and down, round and round and Dorian was watching it intently. Also, Dorian can now hold his head up for long periods of time.
"Play" with other babies (or sleep beside them anyway). One of my closest friends from high school, Jessi, and I have just gotten back in touch (gotta love Facebook) - she has a 3.5 month old daughter, Leah, and also lives in Oakland.
And finally...sleep for 6.5 hours!!!!!! Last night, James and I planned for me to try to get a longer stretch of sleep as I have pumped a couple bottles of milk and I am EXHAUSTED. We figured I could at least get a 4 hour stretch of sleep (Dorian has been waking up pretty much every 2 hours). I fed Dorian at 9:30pm last night and then handed him off to James. I curled up under a comforter (duvet) with earplugs in and James took Dorian into his music room. Apparently, Dorian fussed for about 30 minutes and then fell asleep. The next thing I knew, it was 4:30am and my boobs were majorly engorged and leaking. I took out my earplugs and could hear Dori beginning to wake up in the next room. James was just lifting him out of the Moses basket. He slept from 10pm-4:30am!!! James joked that he must not have wanted the bottle so decided to sleep through the night. Hopefully, this is a pattern that will continue!!!

4 comments:

kate said...

he is SUCH a little person! i love watching him grow....

Momily said...

6.5 hours... VICTORY!!!

He is becoming quite the charmer, isn't he?

Anonymous said...

You have to bring him over RIGHT NOW before he changes anymore!!
It's soooo lovely to see him. He's smiling too, that's so fab. Ro and Josh are gonna just love him. Can't wait!
xx

Anonymous said...

Oh it's wonderful when they start sleeping in "hours" blocks rather than "minutes."

Watch out, won't be long till he's crawling all over the place. My brother brought my nephew over, set him down, and vroom! off he went.

Baby smiles are the best :-D