Baby statistics

Last night was a long night for me and Finnegan. He woke up at 3 a.m. and wanted to eat and eat and eat. I don't know how he does it, but he just doesn't seem to be satisfied no matter how much he eats.

Last week Doug had to rent a breast pump in order for me supplement his feedings and boy did he get used to it. Now my milk production is up and he's gaining more weight, but nursing takes a lot longer sometimes up to an hour or like last night a total of two hours. Since birth Finnegan has been nursing for a total of 50 hours and 20 minutes. That's 25 minutes of nursing for each of the 125 feedings that he's had in the past 15 days.

We've also changed lots of diapers or rather Doug has done the lion's share and I've done a few of them when he's been sleeping. The diaper total is 59 wet diapers and 58 hassle diapers. Fortunately, when I was in the hospital I was not able to change any of the meconium diapers, but I did see the evidence. It's pretty amazing stuff.

Even though, I was up late last night for three hours with Finnegan there's nothing more wonderful than holding a sleeping baby who looks so much like Doug and is happy to cuddle up next to me.