3 Weeks of Graysen!

I can't believe that Graysen was 3 weeks on Wednesday! He will be 4 weeks in a couple days! Over the past 3 weeks, Graysen has been doing a lot of growing!! He grew over an inch and a half in the first week, 2oz day the second week and is continuing to grow like a weed. 

He is still wearing newborn clothes because he's so darn skinny, but he's getting so long that newborn sleep and plays are too short and end up looking like 3/4 length sleeves! His feet are so long that they don't fit in the footie part of the newborn sleep and plays either! Good thing it's warm out now so we don't have to wear the clothes with feet. 

He's getting more and more alert every day and is getting stronger and stronger. His long limbs are all muscle and you can actually see the little definition! He's holding his head up and I swear he's going to roll over soon! He pushes himself up with is legs and despite our attempts to keep him on his back, he always ends up on his side! He loves to sleep with his arms over his head and his hands are always by his face! He grunts and stretches a lot and I'm attributing it to his ever growing body!

The nights are getting better! He's usually up around 2am and 5am. Last night he was up at 2am and then not again until 6:15am! He ate at 9pm, 10pm and 11pm though! He's eating 4oz at each feeding now! I'm nursing as well as pumping and bottle feeding. Since he had weight issues the first week, we are leaning towards pumping and bottle feeding for all of our feedings since that way we know how much he's getting. He also had to have a bottle for so long at first since I wasn't making milk, I was trying to make blood...that nursing takes a long time! He does pretty well with latching on and doesn't really have nipple confusion, but he doesn't seem satisfied as long when nursing as he does after having a bottle. Also, sometimes it takes up to 45 minutes to nurse, and I can pump in 15 minutes and he eats a bottle in about 5 or 10 minutes. Seems like a time saver to me!

Here are photos to show his growing progress over the last 3 weeks!

MB