Jackson, Day 2

Today was a much better day than yesterday. Over the night, Jill and I had the nurse take Jackson to the nursery between feedings. We didn't really want to do that, but after essentially 40 hours without sleep we needed to get some rest. We got about 2.5 hours of sleep each time, and a total of about 6 hours of sleep last night. We felt much better day, and it was such a great day with our new baby. We spent most of the day still resting, but did a lot of holding him, and took him on a couple of walks around the postpartum ward.

Jackson is doing great. He's still spending most of his time sleeping, but there were a couple of times today when he was awake and he just lays there and looks all around him. It already feels like he has such a personality. Of course, we think he is the cutest baby in the whole world, but I'm sure every parent feels that way. Jill and I both feel really lucky that he's come in to our world.

We are slowly getting better at the breastfeeding. It was still really frustrating and he doesn't seem to want to stay latched on for very long so he's not getting much colostrom. But, we're sticking to it and he and Jill both get better at it at each feeding. The doctor was a little concerned today about his drop in weight, which was 7.1%, and they start really getting worried at 10% loss of weight. Each ounce means a lot when you only weigh 7lbs 1ooz. So, to combat the weight drop the doctor had us supplement the breastfeeding with some formula, which he loves because it's so easy.

Jill's doing well. She's pretty sore from the c-section, but she's up and able to move around. She was able to take a shower last night and is eating solid food after the anesthesia wore off.
She's really excited and loves just staring at Jackson when he sleeps.


It's tough to take pics when he sleeps so much, because most of them would fall under the them "Baby wrapped in blanket. But, here are some more pics from today:

http://picasaweb.google.com/phorne96/NewJacksonPhotos