2 Weeks

It's official -- this is a Mommy blog! :)

Last Friday, we brought Baby C to his first pediatrician appointment. He weighed in at 6 pounds 2 ounces, down 9 ounces from birth. Since we aren't planning on bringing him back to this pediatrician, we were on a mission to make sure he gained his weight back by his two-week birthday.

Yesterday was Baby C's two-week birthday so we weighed him at home...and he came in at a whopping 7 pounds 10 ounces! Did he really gain 1.5 pounds in 4 days?? Husband thinks the pediatrician's janky scale was off to begin with. It's hard to say since babies lose between 5-10% of their birth weight in the first two weeks so he was "typical." Since Friday, he's been feeding like crazy so it's not surprising that he has gained all this weight.

We also gave him his first "real" bath last night! His umbilical cord fell off in the middle of the night so we decided to give him a real bath -- no more chaotic sponge baths. Contrary to what you might think based on the picture, he really enjoys real baths...just not the end process of being lifted out of the water to dry off and clothed.



Why does his hair stick straight up after each wash but magically goes down by the next morning?