2 weeks

Miles was 2 weeks this past Sunday.  He's an amazing baby!  He sleeps all the time.  It was so hard for me to adjust to since Julian was the complete opposite.  I have to wake Miles for most of his feeds.  I was happy feeding him at 10ish and then waking him at 2am and 6am, but he has been waking the last two nights at 1am and 5am.  I still can't complain...he's a sleeper.  I'm not sleeping during the day.  I've only had one nap with the boys, but my goal is to try and sleep.  Today I just was restless and I had every chance to sleep.

Julian has been amazing, but we have our days that are stressful.  He loves Miles, but acts out in other areas.  Today it was being a jerk to Granny.  He said no and had a terrible attitude toward her concerning everything.  I was not liking it.  I keep telling myself that he's two, but he knows that we don't treat people rudely.  I got stressed and I'm sure he sensed it.  He pushed me to the edge with it and then started screaming and I was not tolerating that.  I knew he wanted one-on-one time.  I went to snuggle him and he squeezed me so hard.  I told him he had to come to the living room so I could snuggle him while feeding Miles.  I let Miles cry a bit while I just held Julian and then asked him if he could tell Miles everything was ok.  He did and Miles of course stops crying.  I feed Miles while snuggling Julian and reading a story.  We can do this, but not until J gets a lot of energy out of his system.  Our new thing for winter is dancing.  He is so cute.

Miles has been more awake the past two days.  It's strange, but I like seeing those baby blues.  He really does sleep all the time.  I lay him in the boppy pillow after a feed and have to wake him for the next in 3-4 hours.  He's easy, but I'm not holding my breath that it will last.  I am enjoying it though.  I do hold him a lot and snuggle him because I know he's my last and want to make the most of everyday.

When I had my last ultrasound for his breech presentation, they found that his left kidney was all the way down by his bladder.  I googled ectopic kidney and it can be a problem and might not be, but didn't seem to be a concern until you see symptoms.  I didn't think much of it, but have been praying in general for God to heal him.  I don't want him to have UTIs or ultimately, kidney damage.  The pediatricians said they wouldn't do anything at this point.  I was showing mom the radiology report and it said he highly recommended a scan after birth.  Dan then went searching online and found a great pathway.  My midwife came and was surprised that the pediatricians didn't do anything.  She called them and they still agreed to not do anything but said I could be triaged and they'll talk to me (that could be 6 months from now...sociaized medicine), or we pay a ton of money for private practice, and/or we go to our GP and hopefully get a referral to a nephrologist or urologist who I think will know a lot more about the situation than a ped doc.  For now we're doing option 1 and 3.  I will find out in the next week or two when they can see Miles.  I will also see the GP and get the referral...hopefully.  Overall, I'd love your prayers.  I don't want to go through another surgery with another baby and I want Miles to avoid any pain.

Back to sleeping, I really didn't want a baby in our bed again but trying to figure out heating, clothing, swaddling, etc. We can't swaddle his arms, the room is at 64, no hat, cotton onesie, sleeper, and a merino dress cover (yes, we bought into the merino culture here).  It took a week to figure out and he's sleeping great in the bassinet of the pack n play!  I hope it continues.  J just nursed all the time and M is much more efficient!

Speaking of, he was 7 lb 6 oz at birth, 7 lb 15 oz, and today 8 lb, 16 oz.

Oh, his long, thick dark hair is all starting to fall out, but I think he'll keep the mullet in the back.  Awesome :-)

Today is Friday, but I started writing it on Monday.  Our sleeper is starting to be more alert.  It's great except when it's 2 or 3 am.  Oh well, I said I would embrace all of the newborn and infant phases unlike I did with Julian.