2 Months Old

My baby boy is 2 months old!

Highlights.... man, it's hard to keep track of developments and what I've already written about. Last week Evan went to see his first movie in the theater. My friend and I took him and he was really good! I fed him during the movie and surprisingly that went smoothly as well.

Places I've breastfed in public so far:
1. Grocery store parking lot (in the car).
2. Hotel lobby bathroom while a lady took a dump in the stall nearby for 5+ minutes...awkward!
3. Fast food restaurant parking lot (in the car).
4. Airport parking garage (in the car) all alone with people walking by every time a flight came in.
5. Movie theatre

Haha, there have been some interesting experiences already!!!

My in-laws came over earlier this week and brought us an infant scale! We weighed Evan and it showed him being 11 pounds 4 ounces. We aren't 100% sure it's completely accurate since it's used, but I have a feeling it is completely accurate or very close. Evan is so big and HEAVY! It's hard to hold him for long.

Speaking of which, I had very little back troubles while I was pregnant in spite of my scoliosis, but now it is killing me. My chiropractor says my scoliosis (the curve in my spine) is worse since I delivered Evan. That's caused all of the ribs on my right side to go out of place. OUCH. It hasn't improved much, so I'm going to start going to the chiropractor every week now.

I also have yet to start exercising. I think if I can get into a stretch and exercise routine that will help my back too. But when I have the time to exercise I'm too tired to do it. I need to start forcing myself to though. I feel like exercising helped A LOT during pregnancy, during delivery, and helped me get back to my pre-pregnancy weight and size. I want to tone up and get back into the shape I was in before I was pregnant, especially since our plan so far is to TTC #2 fairly soon.

We took Evan to the pumpkin patch the other day! It was beautiful weather here this week (mid to high 70s) and it was perfect for visiting the pumpkin patch. Evan would have preferred it to be cloudy because he hates the sun in his eyes, but I was happy to get out in the sunlight. He was so good and only started to fuss a couple of times and I couldn't really blame him, the pumpkins were cold and the ground was slightly damp and we kept leaning him against pumpkins and sitting him on the ground.

I'm starting to pump breast milk in the mornings to save up milk to start giving Evan bottles so I can avoid breastfeeding in public quite as much. I'm hoping that we can get enough for him to have a full feeding with 2 mornings worth of pumping. I was originally going to pump after every feeding and have enough for a lot of bottles, but for now I'm only going to do once a day and have a couple of bottles a week. Eventually I'll probably pump more because I want to save up breast milk since I'm contemplating weaning him around 6 months old if we do decide to TTC starting then. It would be nice if he could keep drinking breast milk from a bottle for as long as possible after that. We'll see if we can buy a small freezer for more storage room.

Oh yeah, the day after my last post about Evan he started cooing while I was in front of him! He "talks" quite a bit now and is smiling more often as well. :-)