Days 26 - 28 – Four weeks old

(Kristi's friend Erica and Corin)


(Pat and Corin at the library)






(All of the Orr men together for the first time)




(Mommy catches her boys taking a nap)

Wee baby Corin turns four weeks old today. Twenty-eight days old…is that all?!? And the first 18 of that was in the hospital. It is very hard to believe that he has only been at home for 10 days. There are certainly times when it seems it has been much longer than that. Maybe that is what happens when you don’t have 10 individual 24-hour long days, and instead have one long 240 hour day, broken up by small naps.

But things have been going pretty well. A couple days ago we went back to the hospital to meet with a lactation consultant to try and kick-start the breastfeeding process into high gear. She gave Kristi nipple shields, which are basically bottle nipples that go over top of her. That tricks our not-too-bright baby into thinking that he is drinking from the bottle. That has been working fairly well. He is now getting the majority of his meals right from Kristi. The drawback is that he now eats smaller meals more frequently, so Kristi is getting even less continuous sleep than she was before. We throw in a real bottle a few times a day so she can get at least a couple good naps throughout the day.

We took our first real excursion out of the house yesterday (other than going to the hospital or to see the doctor) and went down to Bloomington to visit Grandma, Pop and Lola. We also went to the public library and Corin got to meet Pat (really she got to meet him) who was my Children’s Department librarian when I was a wee child. It was a successful trip out of the house, which was good for everyone.