We Got Ourselves A Family -

Things have been progressing very well and the new Fam is coming along and learning how to all live together. The first night home, Amber and I were a little concerned that Tristan wanted to sleep so much. All our paperwork from the Birthing Center encouraged us to try to wake Tristan up for breastfeeding, but I just couldn't keep that young snapper awake. We checked his vitals: respiration and temperature, and he was in the limits. The guy was just tuckered out from his arrival. Tristan's had also had his first bowl movement (which was intersting to say the least) so we felt that he was healthy, just really tired.

Around 4 in the morning we just laid him down and let him do his thing and got a few hours of sleep. Around 7:00 a.m. I woke up in bed alone and ventured out into the living room to find Amber and Tristan getting started on his morning feeding. Finally we were starting to see some real progress in the breastfeeding department. Since Sunday morning Tristan is steadily becoming a very strong breast feeder.

Tristan skin tone is very good and he is not jaundice at all and we feel very please with the progress that he has made in the breastfeeding department. He looks like a happy three day old baby that's going to grow up faster than we want him too.

We had our three day post-partum appointment with Roswitha today, so we wanted to give Tristan a bath before we left. At first he didn't enjoy it too much, but after I warmed up the water a little more he started to relax and enjoy the process. I guess I was just a little too concerned about the water temperature. We got one of those ducks that let's you know if the water it too hot, but they should put something in that thing that let's you know that it's not warm enough . . . . (hmmmm I'll have to get started on that)