Ethan has continued to be a little gentleman over the past week.  His favorite activities include eating and being held.  If he could eat and be held all the time he would always be happy!  We’ve had a tough time this week getting him to sleep at night.  He tends to only go 2 hours between feedings at night and then does not want to be put down, which results in very little sleep for me.  Jason has been giving him his last bottle of the night so I can go to bed early and get a good chunk of sleep.  Last night we tried swaddling him for the first time and it worked great!  He slept for 3.5 hours then another 3 hours.  I think I ended up getting around 8 hours of sleep (broken, but I’ll take it).  He also took a very long nap this morning so I was able to get a few things done around the house.  Hopefully he has gained enough weight that we can let him have these long stretches of sleep without having to feed him.  Last Thursday he was 6lbs 15oz.  I have been going to a breastfeeding support group at the hospital so I will get to weigh him again this week.  It was our first trip out of the house (just the two of us) last week, and it was nice to be able to talk to other new moms.

In other news, we started using our cloth diapers last week.  After a few user- error leaks, we seemed to get the hang of it.  But his cord stump hasn’t fallen off yet and the diaper covers were irritating it, so we switched back to disposables with the umbilical cord cutout for now.  Hopefully it will fall off soon!

Here are some pictures of our little man this week.

Learning how to control my head!

Wide awake!

Happy Halloween!

Hangin’ out in my new swing!