This week Cash had a lot going on but mostly spent a lot of time sleeping and eating. On Monday, Cash's frenulum was clipped which was probably more of a traumatic experience for me then for him. Since he still needed to learn how to feed without the help of nipple shields even after the procedure, we had a lactation consultant come to the house on Wednesday. She was great and really reassuring about my milk supply and taught us a lot of tricks to get him to nurse better. She also commented on what a happy baby Cash seemed to be so that made Ross and I happy. Nursing is getting better each day and he seems to be gaining weight as is evidenced by his prominent double chin.
His umbilical cord sort of fell off last night - there is still a little nubbin in he middle of his belly button that sticks out a bit and needs to dry up but its good to have the majority of it off. Hopefully the rest will fall off quickly so we can start tummy time soon. His neck already seems to be extremely strong. When we hold him to our chest he lifts up his head far and holds it up for a long time with no problems.
Ross went back to work on Friday of this week so that was sad but we had a lot of visitors that day to get us through it quickly. Since Ross gets to come home for lunch every day next week shouldn't be too bad and he does normally work from home on Fridays so it's only 4 days without his help. We walked up to Ross's work to meet him on Friday afternoon (my first time handling the stroller by myself) but I think the heat and the noise got to Cash a bit because about 2 blocks from his office Cash started screaming which is rare for him to do in the stroller. Hopefully he will do better this Monday when I have to take him for his follow-up ENT visit by myself.
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