Today is Zachary’s official due date, although it’s hard to imagine not having him in our lives for the past 4 weeks. He’s still so tiny, but does not look like the newborn he would be if he was born now. Zachary’s gained about a pound & grown an inch. While Zach’s still on the small side, his doctors say that he’s growing nicely. It took less than 2 weeks for him to surpass his birth weight so no more weight checks for us—the fatten the baby mission was a success! He still sleeps a lot & I have a hard time waking him up to eat (without getting him too upset!), but it’s getting better. It’s still not easy waking him up every 2-3 hours at night when he looks like a little angel sleeping peacefully. I look forward to being able to just let him sleep so I can, too! By then, I imagine that he’ll be waking himself (& me) up on his own on a regular basis. As it is, nighttimes are getting trickier, as Zachary is often hard to console & takes quite a while to put down in his co-sleeper. He’ll fall asleep almost instantaneously in our arms most of the time, but as soon as we oh, so slowly lay him down in the co-sleeper, he seems to wake up & protest. He gets so loud sometimes that Erick will even wake up to help—& as sound a sleeper he is because of his sleep deprivation from work, that says a lot!
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