At Home With A Newborn--Day Three

I braced myself bringing Grayson home. After what we went through with Claire, we were kind of dreading it. Claire cried the WHOLE way home from the hospital, which is a 45-1 hour drive. She had horrible colic the first 4 months. She cried for 4 hours straight her first night at home, and tried to beat that record every night for the next two weeks. She had a love/hate relationship with breastfeeding, and it was difficult for us to establish a breastfeeding relationship. I was exhausted. I was sore. I wanted to know what I was thinking when we decided to have her.

Grayson is the opposite. He nurses so well. Like a pro. With Ethan and Claire, they'd both had bottles by this point. Grayson hasn't. I'm actually quite proud of myself for that. Go me! That'll also help me lose this baby weight faster. I'm looking forward to that. I miss my jeans, but everything is still so sore from his birth that I've trapped in pajama pants. Not a big deal. They are comfortable, easy to move around in and I don't care if they get anything yucky from labor on them. Grayson is also a GREAT sleeper. He wakes up twice, sometimes three times to nurse during the night. I'm getting more sleep with him than I ever did with Ethan or Claire. Like I said, Claire was all about the colic, and Ethan was up on the hour every hour to eat. It's a wonder I was able to breastfeed Ethan at all.

Only downside is that Grayson's circumcison is terrible for him. Ethan didn't have a problem at all. My uncle (who was his pediatrician before we moved up here) did it, and said Ethan slept right through it. Didn't wake up, didn't flinch..Nothing. Grayson wasn't like that. I could hear him cry from the nursery. They brought him to me, and handed him to me, and I tried to calm him and feed him as best I could. They showed me how to give him Tylenol for the pain. Whenever I change his diaper, he cries so much. I try to go fast, and try not to get too close to his penis unless I have to. It looks a lot better than it did, and it seems to be healing nicely. Hopefully he won't need to Tylenol anymore in the next few days, and the redness will be completely gone with the none need for Tylenol. We'll see.

All in all, everyone is adjusting quite nicely to little Grayson being here. Claire has been slowly coming around to him. She likes to touch his toes and his hair while he nurses. When he cries, she comes running to see what she can do to help. She likes sitting in front of the bouncy chair while he sleeps. I think she's on the fast track to becoming a little mommy. Ethan, of course, is LOVING his little brother. He's already anxious about wanting Grayson to get up and play games. Seeing as how he's only 5 days old, it's going to be awhile, but I can see them being great friends..At least until Ethan hits 11, 12, maybe 13. We'll see.

I'll be posting more pictures soon. We've taken quite a few, but I just haven't found the time to upload. It's amazing I've been able to post a blog..lol..I'm hoping I can get back to doing the writer's workshop soon. I've also missed my Tweleve Weeks Of Christmas this week. I'll be picking that back up next week..Hopefully!