How is baby Finn doing? February 12, 2011

This is what I am asked lately. I haven’t posted too much because well, I’ve been busy. Plus, I wanted to catch up on my blog posts that I had neglected about the last part of our trip. But let’s start with an overall perception of how baby Finn is doing. In a word? Fantastically! He fits right in. He loves his siblings and is bonding well to us. He makes good eye contact and seeks us out for comfort. When he cries in the middle of the night, he is instantly comforted by us picking him up. He doesn’t like to lay down for diaper or clothing changes and hates having his nose wiped. He is SMART. Seriously smart. And fiesty. He doesn’t like getting dressed – especially the part of pulling his arms through sleeves. So what did he do tonight to my hubby when he didn’t want to put his jacket on? He locked his arms together behind his head and just grinned. Seriously. He’s 11 months old!!! I don’t remember when he did this, but at one point, he wanted to get something he wasn’t supposed to have and hubby was stopping him. He took his bottle, and threw it under the couch. As hubby was retrieving it, he started booking it across the room to whatever it was he wasn’t supposed to have. Mommy headed him off, but seriously, creating a distraction so he could sneak away? Scary smart. I reiterate…11 months old!!!

Day 1 at Home
Day 1 at home started the evening we got home. He went to bed, in his crib about 6 PM and slept happily in there, by himself for about 2 hours. Then he slept on Adam’s chest in the rocking chair from 8 until 10. Then he slept in our bed from 10 pm until 3 am. Then a bottle, then slept until 6 am on my chest in the rocking chair. Finally one more hour in the big bed. Essentially he slept from 6 pm until 7 am…just the place changed! Little man woke up happy and smiling. He spent the day checking everything out and playing with a few toys. He napped for 2 hours in the afternoon, in his crib. He went to bed at about 6:45 PM and slept for about 3 hours in his crib. The rest of the night Adam sat up with him in the rocking chair and he slept on his chest.

Day 2 at Home
Baby boy woke up happy and smiling again – or rather, we woke him up around 7:30 am. Adam took him on a couple errands in the morning so that I could sleep in. He’s not loving the car seat, but doesn’t hate it either. He fusses when you first put him in it, and then once you start moving he is fine, and frequently falls asleep. He had his first bath tonight too and loved it. Except of course, the rinsing of the hair. No one likes that LOL.

We had to switch his formula today as we ran out of the Korean formula. I went to Target and got their generic, older stage one (with the brown writing). He seemed to like it just fine, but it didn’t like him. This night was long. He was not happy and obviously uncomfortable. Poor little guy! He slept on and off, but I was up most of the night. I suppose letting him nap in the afternoon for 4 hours didn’t help any.

Day 3 at Home
Adam got up around 6:30 am to take the kids to school. He also planned on taking Finn to meet his mom today and letting me sleep in. Good thing, since last night was rough on me. I slept at most an hour or so throughout the night. I got to go to bed officially around 6:45 am and slept until the kids got home from school at noon. Of course, at that point, I felt hung over. Yuck.

When I got up, Finn was having a snack in the high chair. I changed him, and gave him a bottle and put him down for a nap. Now, at this point, we still have the Target formula. He has so far always gone down for a nap quite easily. Not this time. I would say it took me an hour to get him to sleep. He just wasn’t comfortable. It had to be the formula, so I decided I’d go out after he got up from his nap and get something else. I hadn’t looked closely enough at the Korean formula to see that it was lactose free. Target has a lactose free version, so I’ll get that. Once I got him down, I let him sleep for about 2 and a half hours. Once he was up, I packed up all 3 kids to take them to Target. I had some things to return (formula among them!) and got a present for a birthday party we’re going to tomorrow, valentines for the kids to take to school, and more formula – this time the lactose free stuff. I made him a bottle right in the Target cafe after we checked out and he sucked it down. Then we piled in the car and headed to the car dealership to check out a new, bigger car for Mommy. They do fit in my car, but it’s not convenient, especially for dropping the big kids off at school. The kids were very good at the dealership, and Finn didn’t seem to be having any issues with the new formula. Yay!

Once we got home, we had dinner and it was time to put Finn to bed. He sucked down a full 8 oz. bottle of the new formula (before, even when drinking the Korean formula, he would only eat 6 oz. at a time) and still seemed hungry. So, I made another 4 oz. and he sucked almost all of that down. He drank nearly 12 ounces and then fell asleep. I put him in his crib and he slept for a record 5 hours without waking. Hubby is in there right now trying to get him back to sleep. He’s been up for almost an hour at this point. Hopefully the rest of the night will go smoothly…

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