April 2007

We're entering all the diapers and nursing sessions into Trixie Tracker, an online software tool for tracking your kid's activity. The goal is to put information in so we can possibly predict behavior and learn how to better take care of Nico. Right now the patterns don't mean a lot because he's a newborn so his behavior isn't going to last much longer. But soon trends will develop and we'll know more how to use it.

On this chart, each blue bar represents a feeding. Thicker bars mean longer feeding times. The first couple days each feeding was more of an attempt and only lasted 5 or less minutes. We haven't been keeping track of duration, but we'll start tracking that more closely to pick up on those patterns. 

While seemingly overkill, we are going to be splitting our day care and our work days so we are going to be tracking bottles as well as breast nursing. Nico seems pretty adaptable, so we're sure it'll all work out quite smoothly. (yeah right!)  

On our first night home we had some trouble finding a good place to Nico to sleep - he wasn't too excited about the flat crib situation, so we tried the rocking chair, but it seemed quite likely I'd fall asleep and drop him. It's a blur, I'm not sure how we got through that night, but we did get a Snuggle Nest the next day. Now we've been putting him in the car seat most of the time because that's where he sleeps the best.

If only I had thought of using the sling in the rocking chair! It's a perfect match.

I think that's right, Sarah is Molly's cousin, so Nico and Sarah are 2nd cousins - hmmm, have to google that and figure it out.

*UPDATE: Turns out Nico and Sarah are 1st cousins, once removed...

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