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Issues?
Saturday, June 30, 2007

I've realized no matter how many books, articles, and web pages I read while pregnant, when in a time of need ... poof ... all that knowledge dissappears when you need it, and everything comes natural! I guess there really is such thing as "maternal instincts". Who would've thought my mom's been right my entire life! lol jk, thats been evident everytime i know i should get an i told you so after something happens.


Anyways i'm finally over my bathing Jayden fear. And I think since I'm relaxed and happy when giving him a bath, Jayden has stopped freaking out during bath time and seems to at least tolerate bath time.


But what would life be like if there weren't new issues to keep us on our toes.

My new one is about nursing! I decided to nurse mainly bc of the antibodies that you transmit. I've seen other babies who are ALWAYS sick, and I personally don't bellieve in giving tylenol for everything. So breast feeing it is. Now it seemed as if everything was going well, yeah it was painful at first, but together Jaydden and I were getting the hang of latching on.

So what brought on this new dilemma? I was given a new baby gift me and others in my family were very happy for... A breast Pump Kit! Perfect i thought, I can finally get out of the house without having to calculate my trips around feeing time, I wouldn't have to feed in public (not that I'm one of those people against it. I just don't know how to do it, and I don't really want to get any looks from uppidy people). Also now others in my family could feed Jayden and bond with him more, plus I could take showers more freely! lol

That sounds all great and everything, but with this new pump, I jus got greatly discouraged. If you know me, you know I red the manual, all the pamphlets in spanish and english I have about lactation and my book on how to baby's 1st year. And still when I was ready to give it a go, several times I tried, I got very little. This made me wonder if I was proucing enough fo Jayden to eat an grow? Since there was no way to measure the amount going into him, I panicked and ha doubts on my ability.

Of course right away I went online and gooogled my concerns, read numerous blogs, board posts, and i called a recently new mom.

After all this I was unanimously tol that by Jayden's weight I could tell if he was eating enough and that with more persistance and the more I pumped the more I woukd start producing.

As soon as I heard this, yup I took Jayden and I weighe him and he was growing just right! so I was reassured that I was doing a good job and was just a paranoid mom! lol

Issue number 2 resolved!

...I wonder what my next will be? But I hope it waits a little.

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Minivan in my future?
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ok so we all suited uo for the perfect trip to the beach!!! Yeah, sure, we forgot we have a newborn and all can be expected. So I get ready, I calculate two hours after feeding time we'll be at the beach and I can feed Jayden again, no problem! Right... Wrong.


Of course I know my time schedule, but noboy else sees it as a priority, so we must wait for others to get ready.

Finally we're off to the beach an hour later. With traffic it's taking for ever and time is slowly ticking.


Before I know it, Jayden awakes hungry and Angry! But we haven't gotten there just yet. We arrive and lke all good sunny days, there's no parking and Jayden is not takind well any type of soothing, no water, no pacifier, no rocking the cr seat, no constant driving round, and no amount of singing is calming him down.

Finally a spot! Ok so back to feeding him in the car, difficult bc of the amount of space in a sedan, but must be done! Yay we're done and Jayden starts pooping! So my bro and I wait until he's done. O wow explosive poop is the only term that comes to min to explain this. It got everywhere! Thank God I come prepared with extra clothes, we had just bought a new pack of wipes and baggies for both the clothes and garbage.


Now this was when I realized why moms have minivans. oing all that bent over in my Honda gave me the worst back pain ever! It was definitely an experience!

After that, our fieldtrip went well, we even went to eat. Then ready to go home. Jayden's taking a nap so we ponder waking him up... nah he'll sleep the whole way.

I guess we didn't learn our lesson on the drive there, bc 10 minutes after pulling away from the parking lot, Jayden wakes up. but luckily, he settles and goes back to sleeping.

So I get home an my back is STILLkilling me so I wonder, should I get a minivan...

HELL NAH!!!

but hey maybe an SUV woul be cool =}

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Night Time Baths...
Saturday, June 23, 2007
...NO WAY

I don't know who johnson&johnsons is doing their stuies on but Jayden does NOT like bath time at night time. We've trie the night time routine so he can sleep great, but yeah that was a total negative! Lavendar soap, Lavendar lotion, and lullabies to Jayden must equal something horrible because he just would scream and cry the entire time!

After trying it out for a week to see if he'd get used to this new routine, we decied um we'll try again many months later. For now back to rubber duckies in the morning sun!



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Say Cheese!!
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ok so my day seriously consists of Jayden, and I love it, even when he sleeps... cliche i know... but he looks so angelic. But my favorite time to watch my baby boy is when he smiles. No matter what's going on in at the time, no matter what memories are jogging around in my head, no matter any negativty in my life. Just one look at his SMILE and I know I am the happiest person that all tge stress and all my troubles have been worth it.




♥I Love You my Gordo Hermoso♥

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I never realized how much newborns sleep....
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
But thank god for this, because I can try making up for my lack of sleep...

...well sometimes, because another thing i would've never believed if someone else had told me is how fast the day goes, how it all revolves around him, and how much time is spent just looking and watching every single move Jayden makes. Sounds lame to anyone, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.




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SLEEPYHEAD!!!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

MY POINT EXACTLY!!!

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Too Cute For words!
*This is his abuelita's favorite outfit!*



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Fathers Day Weekend!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
It's fathers day weekend, an keith came own to visit Jayden!
And YUP! he does diapers, lol.

This trip was mainly so father and son could spend as much time together. We ventured out together on walks and we all took a fathers day lunch with dad and abuelo.









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Colombianito!
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Jayden's already got his first bottle of aguardiente!

Now to have him listening to vallenato,
and rocking the flag while watching futbol....

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Settling In
Wednesday, June 13, 2007



It's day two at the granparents home!

And Jayden is ready for his close-up!!





He's got such a great personality and likes to be close to the body. I guess because of the warmth. He's really calm and likes to chill as he hears us talk.





The next morning, Jayden is ready for the camera and for what I've learned is a favorite hobby of his looking out the sunny window!!


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Our first adventure together...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007


After FINALLY getting out of the hospital (even though it was really only 24 hrs), We had a lot ahead of us in that first day:

*Doctor's Visit


*Packing


*Driving 305 miles to our summer destination

... and that's when our adventure started!

Whoever said moving with a new born was easy... well just isn't me, b/c i would call it interesting.

Jayden behaved really well. He slept most of the way, but as soon as we would pass an exit he would wake up hungry. Thanks to that we ha our firts test on soothing a baby. My brother and I put our singing skills to a test, we learned how to rock a car seat (sort of) and best of all, I learned how to sort of feed him in public, well in a parling lor , that it is NOT easy to feed a baby in a sedan (i guess this is why mommy's have minivans lol) with a car seat and stuff packed.



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Worth the wait!
Saturday, June 9, 2007

Jayden Alexander

June 09, 2007

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