How You Feeling...Hot, Hot, Hot!

Susanne and Paxton were very sad to see Gigi and Poppy leave this morning. It never feels like enough time. Hopefully, they will be back soon.

Susanne made sure to utilize her time well with Paxton today. Whenever he was awake she made sure to work with him in one way or another. The first chance she got, she placed him on his play gym to work on tummy time for a little while. He still seemed a little behind with his head control. She also had him practice a lot of the exercises that the occupational therapist showed her in the hospital. He breezed right through those. In addition to that, Paxton had a parade of toys dance by him at different times during the day for visual stimulation. It may be too early to tell, but Susanne thought his favorite toy might be his bendy bug rattle. His face just seemed to light up when they played with that toy. Paxton also got to try out his bouncer for the first time today. The cool thing about his bouncer was that it had a contoured seat, it played cool music, it had a vibrate option, and had a cute mobile for him to look at. Who wouldn't have fun in that thing?

Susanne noticed today how well all of the animals had adjusted to the new member of the family. They seemed to like Paxton a lot. James surprised Susanne with the lack of interest he had in Paxton when he was on the floor playing on play gym. This was very exciting especially because she had been so apprehensive about how James was going to react to the baby.

So far, Paxton had been doing well on the breast milk. Susanne had noticed a difference in his demeanor as well as his stomach appeared less distended. He was also not having any issues with passing stool like he was on the formula. All in all, this appeared to be a good change for him. There was still no visible blood noted in his stool...woo hoo!

Today was another scorcher. It was over ninety degrees again, which would be nice if there had been a gradual increase in the temperature. Susanne could not believe that she had to turn on her air conditioner in the month of April. With all of the weather changes, Susanne got a really bad sinus headache towards the end of the day. For all of you mothers out there, you know how difficult it is to take care of a child when your head is pounding.

Susanne just pushed through the pain until the Motrin kicked in. Susanne bathed Paxton before bedtime because he had been sweating some throughout the day. He was becoming more and more comfortable with getting bathed.

Susanne tried to get in bed early because Paxton has an appointment with his pediatrician early tomorrow morning. Not that it really mattered since she would be up every couple of hours, but every little bit helped.