FrogMan
01-20-2004, 03:47 PM
Well, that first night home is over, the second one already went much, much better... ;)
On the morning he was to be discharged from the hospital, Sunday morning, kiddo came down with a light case of jaundice. Doctor said that since we were past the first 48 hours of life and that it was a very light case, it was not a reason to keep him in the hospital. So off we went, Sunday around noon time, in the middle of a mini snowstorm :) Later that afternoon, he got to "watch" his first Patriots win with his daddy, oh the fun we had :cool: He doesn't get all the concepts, but I'm sure he'll get to it eventually...
The first night that followed, from Sunday to Monday, was absolutely crazy. This is our second child, so it's not like we never went through the first night back home, but this one was absolutely crazy. My wife has decided that she wants to breastfeed him, even though she didn't breastfeed the first one. They had warned us that the baby may be growing through a growing spurt on the 3rd day, and it hit pretty hard that night. He was absolutely restless pretty much all night long, asking to be fed about every 2 to 2 and a half hour. Why we knew he wanted to be fed? well, he was almost literally eating his little fingers and fists, munching the air with his mouth wide open... Don't know how many how you know about breastfeeding (for baby that is, I'm not talking about grown men trying to feed themselves that way :D) but every 2 hours is tough on the mommy. Yesterday was used to recuperate, every minute we'd succeed to get him to sleep was used for a nap for us... Today is much better. We actually had to set our alarm clock to make sure to wake him up every 4 hours to feed him last night. Reason for that is that hydratation is the best way to get right of that jaundice, and that orange tone of his skin...
Anyway, here are two pics i found just enough time to scan...
Matthew himself, the new star of the house
http://webhome.idirect.com/~stevegougeon/Matthew1.jpg
And here's one of him and his daddy, proud as can be :)
http://webhome.idirect.com/~stevegougeon/Matthew2.jpg
FM
On the morning he was to be discharged from the hospital, Sunday morning, kiddo came down with a light case of jaundice. Doctor said that since we were past the first 48 hours of life and that it was a very light case, it was not a reason to keep him in the hospital. So off we went, Sunday around noon time, in the middle of a mini snowstorm :) Later that afternoon, he got to "watch" his first Patriots win with his daddy, oh the fun we had :cool: He doesn't get all the concepts, but I'm sure he'll get to it eventually...
The first night that followed, from Sunday to Monday, was absolutely crazy. This is our second child, so it's not like we never went through the first night back home, but this one was absolutely crazy. My wife has decided that she wants to breastfeed him, even though she didn't breastfeed the first one. They had warned us that the baby may be growing through a growing spurt on the 3rd day, and it hit pretty hard that night. He was absolutely restless pretty much all night long, asking to be fed about every 2 to 2 and a half hour. Why we knew he wanted to be fed? well, he was almost literally eating his little fingers and fists, munching the air with his mouth wide open... Don't know how many how you know about breastfeeding (for baby that is, I'm not talking about grown men trying to feed themselves that way :D) but every 2 hours is tough on the mommy. Yesterday was used to recuperate, every minute we'd succeed to get him to sleep was used for a nap for us... Today is much better. We actually had to set our alarm clock to make sure to wake him up every 4 hours to feed him last night. Reason for that is that hydratation is the best way to get right of that jaundice, and that orange tone of his skin...
Anyway, here are two pics i found just enough time to scan...
Matthew himself, the new star of the house
http://webhome.idirect.com/~stevegougeon/Matthew1.jpg
And here's one of him and his daddy, proud as can be :)
http://webhome.idirect.com/~stevegougeon/Matthew2.jpg
FM