Day 35 – Five Weeks Old

Yesterday Corin hit the big five week mark, and he is doing very well. We had his second doctor’s appointment and he weighed in at an impressive 8 pounds, 1 ounce. The doc was very pleased and he will now just be on the “normal” schedule of doctor visits for check-ups and immunizations. The very impressive part of this weigh-in is that about 90% of his meals during that weight gain were right from Momma. We still trough a couple bottles in so Kristi can sleep for more than a couple hours at a time, or if we are out and about. But we are happy that is working out so well.

Kristi had an in-home session with a couple ladies from Le Leche League, and then went to a follow-up meeting with other members of the League of Extraordinary Breast-feeders. This is a group that specializes in breastfeeding and supporting women who do it. They gave some very good pointers and helped with some techniques. So that has given Kristi some extra options for how to feed him. He still eats from Kristi every couple hours or so, which can make it feel like all she is doing is getting ready to feed, feeding, or cleaning up from feeding. But she enjoys being able to do it, and he is growing well from it.

We took another trip down to Bloomington yesterday and got to see Grandma and Susan at their office. As you can imagine, they were very upset at the disturbance, and demonstrated their annoyance by showing him off to everyone who walked by the office. I guess that’s the price he has to pay for being so darned cute.