Getting easier

Overall I'm starting to realize that she is a great baby. I decided as soon as I found out we were pregnant that I wanted her to be on a schedule. This is just from my personal experience with all the babysitting jobs I've had. It was so much easier on me when I knew and the kids knew what to expect at certain times of the day. When I lived in Austin I got this great babysitting job for a really nice family. I was almost like their nanny because I was there almost everyday caring for their new infant (and I also had their toddler in my class at the daycare I worked at). But I remember that she was on a schedule and it made my time there so enjoyable and to me it made for a very happy baby because I knew at what time I could get other household chores done because I knew exactly when she was going to wake up and exactly when she would be hungry etc. Well with Korbyn I didn't expect to really put her on any schedule until she was about a month or so, but with all this jaundice scare the dr.s told me to feed her as often as I can because the more she poops the faster it will all clear up. So I did. I would set my alarm for every 3 hours and feed her whether she was asleep or not, and of course this created an unintentional schedule for the both of us.  I now feed her every 4 hours, not 3.  But it is becoming easier every day because she will eat, poop, be awake for about 30-45 minutes then sleep until her next feeding and so on.  And I still wake her up for her feedings now just so we can stick to this schedule, but for some reason the rascal needs no waking for her 3 a.m. feeding :)

Breastfeeding is much more difficult than I ever thought possible.  But that too is also getting easier every day.  I'd like to put some milk back just for when we go somewhere and when I go back to work so I'm going to try to breastfeed her during the day then her last feeding before bed we have been giving her a formula bottle.  I told Colton I kind of feel guilty for giving her formula every day.  But it really works for us because this way Colton gets to feed her in the evenings, I get to pump in place of a feeding so I can put some milk back, and she seems to be really satisfied by the formula.  So it's a win win all the way around. 

 Daddy and Korbyn watching football on the first day home.

 This was the first time Colton fed her, he was nervous...but did a great job :)

 This was when she was 5 days old and you can definitely tell she is jaundice, the picture really doesn't do justice as to how yellow she looked though.

After we came back from the dr. on Wednesday, she's saying "yay!  No more heel pricks!" :)