Monday, October 27, 2008

1 week visit

Today our MW came by our home again (we also had a visit at 3 days old) to see how we were doing. Everything is going great! Hudson was weighed today and he is 9 pounds 8oz (fully clothed, so she's guessing him to be about 9lbs 5oz or 6oz) and that's AWESOME! A breastfed baby on average gains about 4 to 7oz every week in the first month and leaving on his umbilical cord until the placenta was birthed and stopped pulsing helped to keep him from loosing any weight after birth, which up to 10% weight loss is seen as "normal". So he gained like 7oz and didn't lose any birth weight either!

Mama and baby are doing wonderfully! Hudson's posterior head molding is almost completely gone, but he is having some classic signs of needing a chiro adjustment including favoring one side for nursing, not turning his head fully to one side and having his thumbs inside his fists. Jonas also had some of these signs and after one adjustment he was just fine! We will be visiting the chiropractor, a friend of mine whom I've been seeing weekly for adjustments for over 6 months, this week. Next week, is our first pediatrician appt and in 3 weeks we have another visit from our midwives to see how we are doing during our postpartum period. One of my mama friends stopped by today with some yummy soup and pumpkin pie so we'll be enjoying that for dinner tonight!

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