Kagle Chaos
In just under an hour Adlai will be an entire week old. I'm not quite sure we're having fun but time is definitely flying. Over the weekend we had a nursing crisis and I spent somewhere near 12 hours a day trying to get Adlai to latch. This created a couple of problems: first, as I sat and tried and tried and tried, Simon felt completely abandoned by his Mama; second, well, let's just say there was a lot of pain and suffering and blood and sweat and tears. I turned, of course, to my trusty pump which caused more pain and suffering and a lot less sleep. On Monday, we bought a shield to help protect me from the pain and help Adlai latch and we've been fine since. But holy cow is having a newborn at Christmas annoying when you need help and no one is available. Since yesterday things have been much better around the Kagle abode. Simon has been less angry today (though he is not entirely cured) and Adlai is eating every two hours instead of every three to five. I'm not sure if the kid was so frustrated he was no longer interested or if he is just really that tired.
On the positive side, all that hoping and wishing may have paid off because Adlai is a good sleeper. He has already figured out day and night and will sleep from the time Simon goes to sleep to around 9 am. Last night he woke every two hours but, the two nights before that, he spoiled us with nighttime sleep in three to five hour chunks. This good sleeping is actually not all that healthy for newborns so we were torn... wake him up and get less sleep ourselves or let him sleep and assume he knows what he is doing? Monday he was weighed and he is progressing within the normal range for weight gain so the nurse told us not to worry and to appreciate the gift of a sleeping kid.
To celebrate the Christmas holiday, we went out for traditional Christmas Eve sushi. We opened the restaurant and our waiter was also our sushi chef and our server. A Christmas tree glowed in the corner, the Christmas music wasn't the annoying kind, and we all enjoyed the food. This morning Simon and I awoke to a little bit of Christmas sent here by Grammy and laid out in the night by Matthew. Simon and I decorated the wee tree and opened the stockings and gifts over waffles, milk, and cookies while Matthew and Adlai slept in. It was a quiet day but, with the nursing crisis over and more time on hand for Simon, it turned out to be a very nice Christmas after all.
Updates: Adlai lost his cord stump this afternoon so pretty soon we'll see what he thinks of water. And he has spit up a few times since the last post but the amounts are relatively insignificant. Was Simon spitting up so much because he ate so often?