6 week check up

yesterday we took this baby off to the gp for his six week check up... and found out he is definitely not little. at six weeks, he is already 6.33kg. holy moly. madeline had barely made it into 0000's at this age and he's already well filling 000's. yikes. we are going to have a bigggggg boy. but to be fair, it's much nicer for little girls to be petite and boys to be "sturdy" (how i like to word it...) so i am okay with it this way around. maybe this kid is finally putting some of those good polynesian genes to use.

 

he started doing actual smiles during the last week... so sweet - i just want to cuddle him all the time! and how could you not? he's adorable! the longest he has slept for during the night so far is 4 hours... we'll work on that! and trust me, i'm not complaining, i know there are people who have it a lot worse than i do!

we were told today though that the light isn't travelling all the way through his right eye and it will need to be checked, so we now have a specialist appointment. hopefully they can explain exactly whats going on... but i am sure there's a perfectly logical explanation for it. fingers crossed! 

in sickness and health

this content looking chubba has already had a visit to the hospital and the doctor since he entered the world. day three we went to princess margaret childrens hospital after joseph came out in a rash all over - which we were very quickly assured was a extremely common in newborns (called erythema toxicum) but oh my word were they amazing. we called the after hours gp, who said he couldn't give any advice for a 3 day old baby as he wasn't a pediatrician and then sent us to the hospital.

within 5 minutes of arriving of the hospital, we had been ushered into a private observation room (it was due to the fact that the hospital didn't know what any one in the waiting room could have had - and joseph clearly couldn't have had his shots yet) where the hospital registrar came to us to get our details (yep joseph hadn't been registered into the medicare system yet either) then a nurse came in, followed quickly by a dr - and we were in and out of the hospital within 20 minutes. champions. but great - because lets be honest, who wants to sit in a waiting room with a newborn...

doug had a bit of a cold when he was born and maddie quickly caught it, she loves her daddy and always wants to be 10cms from him... but then due to all the love she keeps throwing at baby joseph, he has it now too. not even two weeks old and he is snuffling, has a little cough, sneezing all over the place... it's yuck. the child health nurse came this morning and suggested it was best to take him to the doctor just in case - but of course, there's nothing you can give a newborn and i was given exactly what i assumed, the advice of keeping his nose cleaned out and as long as he kept feeding without any dramas, that there wasn't anything else i could do... sigh

she did give us some good news though, breastfed babies are expected to gain about 30gms per day to be healthy - and our little machine is gaining sixtyone! what a champ. must be because a) i have so much milk and b) all he wants to do all day is drink drink and drink some more. it's much the same as when i had madeline, sometimes he'll pull off and get a nice stream of milk in the face - or i'll have a nice pain going on because they are filling again too quickly. to be honest i am glad though... lots of milk is great - and a healthy baby is exactly what the dr ordered.