so these days, varun smiles a lot. He doesnt just smile, he responds to smiles. So for example when I am changing a diaper, i'm not really looking at him, but he will search out my face and give a huge grin - to which I can do nothing but respond.
He smiles a lot just before a poop. Sometimes it feels like he is trying to figure us out. His sleeping is still pretty erratic. Somenights he wakes up feeds and then goes down without a fuss, and other nights he stays awake for ever.
He is usually down by 7pm or 8pm at night, then wakes up at either 12am or 1am for a feed, goes to sleep and then wakes up at 3 or 4 and then 6 or 7. sometimes he takes forever to fall back to sleep after one of these feeds and that gets me extremely cranky.
I think he may be teething, i know it is still too early but he has been drooling, his sleep is all out of whack (that is he just wont nap for long anymore) and he likes to chew his arm, plus i see some white looking stuff in his gums. only time will tell if those are really teeth or something else.
the craziest is when he falls asleep in your arms and then he wont stay asleep when you put him down, this is a new thing. He used to nap well before and thats why i think it may be related to the teething thing. At 11 weeks (or 9 weeks corrected) he couldnt be going through any kind of growth spurt ( i think). I seem to feel that he is continuously havin a growth spurt and i havent even reached the 12 week mark which is supposed to be the worst (growth spurt).
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
the first month
in the months before you were born, i often wondered what you would look like. I knew that you loved to kick, and I knew that you hiccuped a lot - but the rest of you was a mystery.
i was worried when the doctor said that you had to come out by week 36 - i pleaded with her and got an extension to week 37. I was worried if you would be able to breathe if you came out too soon and would need to visit the NICU, i worried that you may not weigh enough.
finally we had a date, it was a wednesday. Armed with cameras I checked into the hospital. They started me on an IV, and hooked me on a monitor to check on your heartbeat.
soon an anesthisiologist came in and explained the procedure. there was nothing new, but i wanted to hear it over and over again - who would be in the operating room - what they would do etc. We still had not picked out your name - we had narrowed our choices down to 2 names - but thought that maybe a look at your face will help us with the pick.
the anesthesiologist joked that if we hadnt picked out the name in 3 days they would pick it out for me.
a needle was stuck down my back and i was numbed from the waist down. Suddenly it was all a flurry and the room was filled with all kinds of people. I asked your dad if they had started working on me and he said that they had a long time ago. I didnt feel a thing but I was waiting behind this big blue screen for you to come out. After some time of this the doctors told me to expect a lot of pushing, you were about to be born.
your dad, who is squeamish about blood and not much of a medico-fan, suddenly decided that he wanted to see you being born. (It happens only once in a lifetime and I am not going to miss it, he says) Thanks to that, I got to see it too. (on video).
i was worried when the doctor said that you had to come out by week 36 - i pleaded with her and got an extension to week 37. I was worried if you would be able to breathe if you came out too soon and would need to visit the NICU, i worried that you may not weigh enough.
finally we had a date, it was a wednesday. Armed with cameras I checked into the hospital. They started me on an IV, and hooked me on a monitor to check on your heartbeat.
soon an anesthisiologist came in and explained the procedure. there was nothing new, but i wanted to hear it over and over again - who would be in the operating room - what they would do etc. We still had not picked out your name - we had narrowed our choices down to 2 names - but thought that maybe a look at your face will help us with the pick.
the anesthesiologist joked that if we hadnt picked out the name in 3 days they would pick it out for me.
a needle was stuck down my back and i was numbed from the waist down. Suddenly it was all a flurry and the room was filled with all kinds of people. I asked your dad if they had started working on me and he said that they had a long time ago. I didnt feel a thing but I was waiting behind this big blue screen for you to come out. After some time of this the doctors told me to expect a lot of pushing, you were about to be born.
your dad, who is squeamish about blood and not much of a medico-fan, suddenly decided that he wanted to see you being born. (It happens only once in a lifetime and I am not going to miss it, he says) Thanks to that, I got to see it too. (on video).
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