{"id":2029,"date":"2010-10-19T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2023-08-30T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:46:18","slug":"one_month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/one_month\/","title":{"rendered":"One month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Adrian_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe first two or three weeks Adrian spent pretty much all his time eating and sleeping. Honestly, he was like a newborn kitten, with his eyes closed all the time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow he is actually awake some of the time, occasionally over an hour at a time. The downside is that he no longer falls asleep without any effort from us. At first he would easily fall asleep no matter what; now it&rsquo;s not that easy any more. But it&rsquo;s nothing like Ingrid&rsquo;s sleeping troubles: when he is tired and I put him in the sling, he generally falls asleep without much fuss. And with a bit of help (such as a dummy or someone&rsquo;s finger to suck on) he can actually fall asleep lying down. But since I usually have more important things to do than to sit by his bedside, I often tuck him in the sling anyway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately Adrian spends much of his awake time crying and screaming due to tummy troubles. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellymom.com\/bf\/supply\/fast-letdown.html\">forceful letdown<\/a> and plentiful milk supply, so he chokes, splutters, gasps for air, and generally struggles to feed. (No comfort nursing here.) As a result he eats way too fast and swallows a lot of air. I burp him several times during a feed, as well as afterwards, and every time he lets loose a huge burp more befitting a champion beer drinker. But it&rsquo;s hard to get all the air out, so for a good while after every meal he cries and throws up as he tries to burp it out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn the plus side, he&rsquo;s developing good strong neck muscles, because he spends so much time upright, being burped or comforted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe seems to dislike being naked, so he doesn&rsquo;t enjoy nappy changes or clothes changes. Partly because of this he&rsquo;s only had two proper baths since he was born. (The other reason is that there aren&rsquo;t many opportunities: either he&rsquo;s asleep, or upset, or I&rsquo;ve got other, more important things to do.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHe has a strong startle reflex and is startled by many things. Putting him down on the changing mat, unbuttoning his body, tearing the nappy open, picking him up, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two or three weeks Adrian spent pretty much all his time eating and sleeping. Honestly, he was like a newborn kitten, with his eyes closed all the time. Now he is actually awake some of the time, occasionally over an hour at a time. The downside is that he no longer falls asleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[633,665],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrian","category-adrian_monthly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17778,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/17778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}