Sleeping

Yesterday Harris had his weekly weigh in and.... (drum role please) he is officially over 6lbs!!! 6lbs, 1oz to be specific. While mommy was thrilled that Harris blasted past 6lbs (OK maybe blasted is a bit extreme, inched may be more accurate) the pediatrician reminded us that while this was great, and while Harris was doing wonderfully, our weight gain goal is 5-8oz a week, not 2 (which is what he had gained since his last weigh in). SO the doctors aren't concerned just watching the pattern closely and will weigh him in again next Monday before making dietary changes (i.e. increasing the number of times we give a high calorie formula feeding instead of nursing). So why has Harris's weight gain decreased since he came home?

Well, since Harris has come home he has been sleeping - our little man LOVES to sleep and generally sleeps for 3-4 hours at a time, which as a new mom officially on maternity leave I am definitely not complaining about -- BUT there are three challenges:

1. When Harris wakes up he is starving and goes from sleeping to screaming in about 2 seconds flat. And I mean screaming - not crying just a high pitched squak. He is screaming so hard that he has a hard time eating - go figure. But when he is done eating he is awake for a bit and is a happy little man.

2. Sometimes he doesn't wake up and then we are forced to wake him up and well then the same screaming ensues. So I know some of you are asking why ever would you wake a sleeping baby - the short end of it is the doctors told us too - he needs to gain more weight and so needs to eat more often (I wish I had that problem)

3. The pattern is only true during the day - from 9pm - 1am Harris likes to hang out -- awake!

Luckily he is so loving and cute I hardly even mind, at least not for now.