In a few hours it will be three weeks since I gave birth to Khéna, three weeks since he took his first breath, three weeks since I met my third son…
I can’t imagine life without him.
He is becoming so much more aware of the people around him. He looks at us in way that way that shows that he is more aware than we may imagine. Yesterday we went shopping and he was in the wrap pushing his arms out so that his head was free and so that he was looking straight up at me, his eyes and expression were just breathtaking.
He wasn’t just a baby in my arms. He was Khéna Mael. My new little man.
Khéna is a great sleeper still and sleeps pretty much through the night… if he does wake up he nurses a bit, Simon will potty him and then he is back to sleep… since he is co-sleeping he just has to start moving and grunting for his needs to be met so really I don’t think that he really wakes up for any of it anyways… he has a bit of a crying spell during the evening but after making him comfortable and full he calms down and then is ready for the long sleep ahead of him…
EC is doing great… we pretty much catch 100% of his poos now and though we still miss a lot of pees, he always has one waiting for the potty… He surprised me yesterday by not having a bm the whole day and when we got home and during the night he made up for it… His signals are getting so much clearer especially for pooing and he just doesn’t want to use a diaper for that… Hey!!! I don’t blame him!!
On Sat, I put him down to sleep out of arms for the first time and he slept in his Amby for at least an hour and a half… He had not slept out of arms since he was born. By the end of his nap I couldn’t wait to go pick him up, but it felt good to prepare a meal with my hands free while Simon was doing things around the house…
I still can’t believe how big he is… At 3 weeks of age he has outgrown most of the clothes that Xavier and Colin were still wearing at 2-3 months of age… So I now find myself putting all the newborn/3 month old clothes and bringing out the 3-6 and 6 month old stuff…
Anyway… I’m going to take some pics later today but for now I will share the pics of his first nap in his amby bed…
Wow, I miss having a big boy around though am thrilled with my little girly girl. She’s still swimming in newborn clothes but is too big for preemie stuff so she mostly is just in baggy newborn clothes, the 0-3 month sized stuff is so huge her arms and legs come out of them. Can’t wait to get that wrap so I can wear Logan, it will be so much easier than how things are right now as my arms keep falling asleep and I can’t get much done with just one hand…like going to the bathroom, cooking, or lifting Gage.
I don’t know if it’s just the picture, but he looks like he has a lot of hair! Congratulations again on such a perfect little baby.
He is just too precious for words. Congrats.
Ooooo, that Amby looks so awesome! Do you love it? I should look in to getting one of those . . .
how long can you use an amby for?
And did you EC with your other children?
I had attempted it with Naeem but thought it might be easier if I started at birth instead of 6 months so I stopped after getting discouraged.