Baby Mystery of the Day...

I eat green spinach, make white milk, and baby then makes green poop out of it. How does that happen? It totally *looks* as though he has eaten spinach, too. Fascinating...

Julian is getting chubby baby cheeks all of a sudden, he has really started to fill out. Not like he was ever scrawny by any means, but now he is getting that plump baby look.

It's true, babies really do change every single day. His umbilical cord fell off this morning. I was cleaning around it with alcohol (which you are supposed to do with every diaper change) when I noticed it was wiggly, like a loose tooth. I poked around at it, which didn't seem to bother him any more than usual, then turned it and turned it and it just came off in my hand. A milestone! This baby will be able to take a bath before *I* will! He just had to wait for his cord to fall off, but I have to wait another 2 weeks before my incision is considered healed enough for me to do anything but shower. Grrrr. Honestly, why on earth anyone would *choose* to have a C-section is just beyond me. It's absolutely horrible.

More clues as to how to get this baby to sleep at night...last night he was fussing and fussing and wouldn't sleep when it was time to go to bed. Dan jiggled him for a while while I passed out for an hour, then I woke up, sent Dan to bed and took over from there. Fussing, fussing...finally I put him down on his stomach and he quieted right down and went to sleep. Wouldn't you know...the one position that babies are NOT supposed to sleep in is the one position that knocks our baby out at night when nothing else works? I waited until he was out cold and then put him on his back again. This may be a very valuable strategy indeed.

I lost another 5 pounds in two days, it's like a miracle or something. I'm eating fine and haven't even gone for walk in two days (damn this rain!), but the weight is just melting off. Turning into chubby baby cheeks, methinks. Gotta love breastfeeding.