Micah had his 2 week appointment today, and he weighed in at 6 lbs (well, with rounding up)! He is growing well (averaging an ounce a day) and we were officially given permission to stop force-feeding him at 3 hr intervals around the clock – we can now feed “on demand” so tonight is the first night we intend to let him sleep until he wakes up. I’m SOOO excited – I think we might actually get 4 hours of sleep in a row. I’ve continued to feed him every 3 hrs or so all day in the hopes that he won’t be too hungry tonight to sleep a bit longer.
The past few nights, he has been unhappy from about 4 am until 8 am. We’ve been waking him up from a pretty sound sleep to feed him, and then we have a hard time getting him back to sleep after the feeding. He’ll start crying, and I almost always have to nurse him again . . . we’ve been cluster feeding for several hours every night, and it is taking its toll on us. It is probably more accurate to say he won’t let us put him down after the feeding – he’ll sleep on me or Elliot, but if we try moving him to the bassinet so we can sleep, he starts crying, and since we are too exhausted to stay awake and hold him on us in the bed . . . well, let’s just say it has been challenging. We’ve eventually been able to get him to sleep in the bouncy seat, but we don’t want to have him sleeping in the bouncy seat every night. Here is hoping we have better luck tonight!
We are going to attempt to use the playmat tonight – we’ll see if he is ready for that. Luckily, he seems to really like tummy time, although he mostly spends tummy time on Mommy or Daddy’s chest. We thought we’d try a change of location tonight, so we’re off to the rec room in the basement for a change of scenery.