Ron is 3 weeks old today and no longer looks or feels like a tiny baby! We no call him our "Little Ronnie" and yet there are still so many changes to come, to experience and to record in this blog! Parenting: Breast milk works wonders Sunday 21st OctoberRon is 21 says old today! For some reason that feels a bit like a milestone to me, a birthday - not really sure why! What I am certain of is that he is no longer a "Baby Ronnie" but is now a "Little Ronnie". He looks a lot more grown up and feels much heavier than before, so a "baby" no longer seems to accurately describe him anymore! This reminds me just how quickly things change at this stage and I am really trying to savour and enjoy every moment that is fleeting by! I try to write a daily blog post, a diary of sorts about our experiences and any thoughts that come to mind. For a while now I was thinking that perhaps a weekly update would be enough and that daily post is too much work. I was convinced that every day will be largely just the same as the previous one, and just the same as the next. We wake up, feed, go for a walk if it's a nice day, sleep, feed and go to bed. Nothing new or exciting. Nothing exciting ever happens in our quiet little lives. . . However, writing these blogs has demonstrated to me that with the baby growing and changing so quickly, every day brings about something new. Something little, something seemingly insignificant, yes - but new and different nonetheless! I came to love noticing and recording these little changes and thoughts which create little peaces of a larger memory for the future. . . Parenting: Breast milk works wonders We have a good topping & tailing routine established now. I wash Ron's eyes and face with warm water twice a day and in the evenings also use a little bit of expressed breast milk to help with the sticky eye, redness around the eye and face acne. Expressing milk is becoming easier now, so I might even start doing the milk treatment twice a day as well - it seems to be helping a lot! It is such a shame that we even encountered these pesky problems, but so lucky that the natural remedies work so well! Ron is sleeping really well and seems to enjoy sleep-feeding too! We both lay comfortably in bed and he nurses himself to sleep, looking all contented and, no doubt, feeling very safe and loved. However, he seems to be gulping in quite a bit of air when he nurses laying down and so we always need to burp him, or he gets uncomfortable, pained and brings back a lot of milk. This seems to defy the purpose and joy of sleep-feeding - we are comfy, cosy, sleepy one minute and then the next we are wide awake patting baby on the back, moving him around trying to get those pesky air bubbles out of his tummy! I am not sure this is working quite as intended. . .
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