Say What You Mean To, Sa!: One Month!

How is our boy already a month old?!

By my calculations, he weighs 11 pounds. That means that he has gained 2.5 pounds since he was born. What a chunk bucket!
He wears size 1 diapers. He wore newborns for a week or two and outgrew them.
He can still wear a few of his newborn clothes, but his 0-3 month and 3 month have already made it into the rotation.
He is on a pretty good 3 hour schedule (and has been for weeks I feel like) and at night has given us as many as 4 or 5 hours between feedings, though that is not the norm. We aren't on any type of schedule, yet. We just go with the flow. That is going to change soon to get that sleeping through the night thing going.
We haven't instated BabyWise yet, but we have followed the eat, play, sleep model since he was born. When he wakes up he eats, then we change his diaper and talk to him/put him on his play mat/lay him down and let him look around until he starts fussing. Then it is time for him to go to sleep, so we swaddle him up and put him down. He doesn't always instantly fall asleep, but will look around for a bit and then doze off. That is great because it means that he is already learning how to put himself to sleep, which will help out a bunch once we really start BabyWise-ing him in a few weeks.
I am still exclusively pumping. I was all ready to boob feed him, but at about the week mark he started needing more than I could give him. He would eat for about an hour (ain't nobody got time for that!) and still be hungry. I would have to make him a bottle to top him off. I decided that it was just easier for me to pump and give him a full feeding out of a bottle when he ate. I am such a cow that I only have to pump four times a day and that gets enough milk for all of his feedings and then some to stash in the freezer each day. I already have a freezer FULL of milk, which I know is such a huge blessing. A lot of women have to work really hard to produce milk and I am very lucky to just naturally be a big milk producer. I do feel like a cow, though - MMOOOOOOO!!
Today (4 1/2 wks) we put him down for a nap in his crib for the first time. We have had him napping in the living room swaddled in the bouncy seat next to the white noise made by the MamaRoo (which he has already outgrown - he relaxed much more in something that vibrated). We have not been quiet, but we have kept the TV just loud enough for us to hear it and tried to keep Caroline from running around him and making a ridiculous amount of noise. He has done great and slept through everything, but this week is a Wonder Week (a book/app/website that shows physical symptoms that come from cognitive 'leaps' that babies make) so he has been much more aware of what is going on around him. He started waking up a lot more because of noise and light. So I decided just to try putting him to sleep in his room because it is much quieter and darker in his room. He did not bat an eye. He only woke up for a second during that first nap and we popped his paci back in and he went right back to sleep. His second nap he closed his eyes and was out for two hours. We may even let him sleep in his room at night already. I can remember the difference that made with Caroline. We all could use a good night sleep! (Haha...jumped the gun on that one! This happened to be a Wonder Week where he is eating every two hours and is having a hard time getting himself to sleep. We put him in his crib the night I said we would, but he was up every two hours so we are going to hold off on the crib stuff. We just need to get everyone through this week using whatever works!)
For the most part he is a really great baby. Laid back, go with the flow - unless you change his clothes and try to make him straighten out his arms and legs, change his diaper, make him wait too long to eat, make him ride in his car seat, or wait to long to put him to bed. So pretty much as long as he is full with a clean butt and put down for a nap after just a bit of being awake - he is happy as a clam!

We love you so much, sweet Cam! You have been such a great baby and I can't wait to see how you grow and change over these next few months!