This week my Mom (Grandma Workman) came by to help and make life easier. She arrived on Sunday and went home today, it was a good week. We ended up going needing Mom around a lot more than we initially thought.
We took Alastor to his two week appointment to have him check out. We were excited to see how much weight he had gained and all the other things. It turned out that Alastor had actually lost weight. He was down to 6lbs 6oz as compared to his birth weight of 7lbs 3oz. The Doctor seemed very concerned and wanted us to make sure that Meghan was producing milk and nursing right. It wasn't very fun to find out that most likely we were doing something wrong! Meghan took it pretty hard, but Mom was able to help her out while I was stuck at work. We have doubled-up on feedings and started giving him some formula also. He gets weighed in tomorrow, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.
Mom bought us a rocking chair (pictured above) for Meghan to nurse in, rather than running off to the bedroom whenever Alastor gets hungry. It has been wonderful , and i turns out the chair we got was one that Meghan had been eyeing for a long time.
Work has become very short, with not many hours worked in the week. I worry that my paychecks won't be able to cover a lot of what is needed for the baby and for us. We have an appointment with the WIC program so hopefully they take pity on us and help us out.
On the other side of the fence, things are still going very well. Alastor seems to be happier and more content with his need feeding schedule, and we feel more secure as parents. He keeps getting cuter everyday and we sure do love him. He was even quiet through all of sacrament meeting! We can only hope things continue to get better.
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You all look great! Good luck on the weigh-in tomorrow, we hope that everything is just as it should be.
Cassie and Crew
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