Brendan Update 01.04.06

We went to the Dr. yesterday for Brendan's 5 day check up. Weight still 8 lb 1 oz, so he's holding steady. Dr. (who was originally from Detroit..so he liked my Red Wings shirt) said he looked good and that his bilirubin levels were fine so it looks like we might be out of the jaundice woods. We tried to keep Brendan in our room much of the day because it gets more sunlight.

Here's a picture of the little man in his boppy on our bed. You'll notice Sara in the background...she and Samantha keep pretty close tabs on him. It'll be interesting to see how Jackson does. Anyway, his rash is totally gone and he looks less yellow to me.



Our maid was here yesterday and she went right up to him and gave him a kiss. It was sweet, but we'd probably rather folks not kiss him right now. Most of the moms we've run in to when out and about with him tell their little ones to stay away from 'the newborn'. Brendan's much more alert as the days pass. He hasn't napped too much today, but he did give us about 45 minutes so we could go downstairs for some dinner. We had the baby monitor on and he was babbling and gurgling, but no real crying...so he did OK by himself. Here's a picture of him being held by Dana.


He's been pretty good during the night. It's easy for me to say, though, because I'm not usually the answer to his problems. I got up about 4 ish to settle him down a little bit. Spent a little time in the glider shushing him until he went back to sleep. I feel a little guilty that there isn't more that I can do, but for now, eating is about 50% of what he wants to do with his time and Dana has a monopoly on the food supply.

We've started to give him a little supervised tummy time so he can practice moving about and turning his head. While lying on his tummy he was able to pick his head up enough to switch from looking right (at Dana) to looking left (at me!). We thought that was pretty impressive. He also spent a little time in his Papasan swing. He loved it enough that he went to sleep while swinging in it! Yahoo...if we can use that to help keep him happy that'll be a great thing.

Here's a picture of him on his little activity gym thingy.