>FAQ

>I’m working on writing out Theo’s birth story, but lest anyone think we fell off the planet, here are some tidbits:

How are you?
I’m as fine as you can be when sleeping two hours together feels like a lot.

How’s the recovery going?
Way, way better than I expected and more slowly than I’d like.  I’m still not supposed to pick up much more than the baby, so my toddler is frustrated and so am I.  But I was off the heavy painkillers within a week and off the ibuprofin within two.  Every so often I grab an Advil, but otherwise I’m in pretty good shape as far as the pain goes.  Still have trouble bending over and finding a comfortable sleeping position, but pregnancy got me used to that!

What does Sebastian think of Theo?
At this point, not too much.  Theo eats and sleeps a lot, which isn’t all that interesting.  He likes him best when he’s alert, at which point he wants to hug and kiss him and hold his hand.  It’s very sweet.

Sebastian’s still getting lots of attention with so many adults in the house, so he hasn’t been jealous much.  He doesn’t like being asked to be quiet when anyone is sleeping, so that’s probably his number one complaint.  Our chief complaint is that he likes to scream when he doesn’t get his way, which is irritating regardless of whether anyone is sleeping!  We’re working on it, but I sense some time-outs in our near future…

What’s it like having a newborn again?
It’s both wonderful and terrible, as anyone who’s had one knows.  We are exhausted, thrilled, remembering our way, and charting new territory all at the same time.

Theo is a fabulous sleeper except around 2 a.m., and ate his way to an impressive one pound gain over his birth weight within his first 11 days of life!  Haven’t weighed him since then, but it’s a relief that so far the eating and sleeping are going so much better than they did the first time around.  He cries mostly when he gets his diaper changed, and wakes up grunting and squeaking to tell me he’s hungry, rather than wailing.

Speaking of which, there’s my little squeaker now…