Abby, Zoë and Enzo

Enzo is a week old now and things are already becomming more normal.  There are still some kinks with the whole sleeping and eating times, but he really does pretty well.  If I don't nap during the afternoon when Enzo is, then I find myself quite tired as well as having a short fuse with the girls, but as long as I make myself take at least 20 minutes, that helps a lot.  I'm trying to work towards a point where I can get more done in the breaks of feeding, and I'm sure as Enzo gets to a point where he's more content during his awake time this will be able to happen.

As far as sleeping goes, most of the time Enzo actually does really well.  He does a couple of big naps during the day, and we try to get to have him have a couple of 'up times' of maybe an hour after these.  During the night he usually has a late night feeding and then sleeps for a couple of hours, then a middle of the night feeding and sleeps for a couple more hours and then an early morning feeding.  Most of the time his actual sleep time is around two hours, but sometimes it stretches to even three hours.  Usually after the early morning feeding, around 5:00 or 6:00, I am up for good since the girls wake up towards the end of these and so I just stay up to get them a little something to eat and begin the day.

Nursing is going well, with the typical ups and downs.  The latching didn't start so great, and I'm still feeling the pain from that, but the past couple of days we've been getting a better handle on that part of it.  Many times he nurses for 10 minutes on each side, sometimes he'll go around 20 minutes each, and then there are times when he goes for a normal amount of time and then wants to eat all over again soon after.  This happens after he's had an awake time, even though it's only been maybe and hour since he finished eating, he'll want to nurse and go to sleep.  I'm thankful that I'm not having any issues that would make me have to pump at this point.