Yesterday was a big day for our family, we finally welcomed our third little dumpling! While my mommy instincts were terribly off on the timing (what I was sure was going to be an early baby came 1 day before the official due date!), I was not wrong about the fact that we got a BIG BOY! “Doodle” has taken his little place in our family and is fitting in just perfectly. The girls are enthralled by him and so happy he is finally here!
After a fairly uneventful birth (more on that another time), we have spent the past 24 hours getting to know him and here is what we’ve discovered thus far:
- Tipping the scale at 8 lbs, 14 ounces and 22 inches long, Doodle is more than a pound bigger than Sugarplum and more than 2 inches taller!
- Doodle looks just like Honeybun did as a baby.
- He takes after Sugarplum with his sleeping grunting and squeaking.
- In the middle of the night with low light and his scrunched up little face and squinty eyes, he looks like Mr. Magoo!
- He’s been having a little bit of a spitting up problem as my transition milk has already started coming in.
- When he’s about to spit up he makes the same gagging/dry heaving noise our cat Monk makes.
- Sometimes after he’s made a good spit up he’ll make a little victory squeal that sounds like “yay!”
- Doodle is a fantastic sleeper so far. He slept most of the night and I was able to swaddle him and lay him down where he quietly drifted off to sleep.
- Mommy needs to go shopping for little boy clothes, ASAP!
So exciting, congratulations!