Category: Baby

Baby, Mommyhood

Break

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I took a few weeks and just hunkered down and and enjoyed being a mama. Things have been going pretty well for the most part and I’m finally starting to enjoy the experience. Husib and I have our groove on. This is what a typical day looks for us

Wake up around 7:30ish, take J to work. On the way back, we either stop by mom’s for coffee and nap time or come home and nap. Then its feed, playtime, a bath and another long nap. I usually try to go out for errands, shopping or lunch, during this period and come home by 4:30 or 5 when we do another feed. Then we get J if I gave him a ride and come home, feed and eat dinner. We then do bedtime starting around 7:30ish and I pray and hope the little dude is out by 8:30. This usually means that I can chill until 10:30 or so when he wakes up hungry and then if its a good night he will sometimes sleep all the way through the morning, otherwise, he wakes up around 2pm and then again around 7ish.

I know our schedule is going to change soon, once I go back to work, but for right now, I’m enjoying our time.

Baby

One Month Photo

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So I’ve meant to post this forever and never got around it, but here is the husib’s one month photo. I did steal the block idea from another blog, unfortunately, I can’t remember who so I can’t give credit.

I know this isn’t the best picture, but I wanted the pic on his one month birthday and it was a bit crazy

So it is looking like Husib is going to be a smallish baby. At our one month well baby check up his pediatrician said that he is growing at a great rate but his percentile is in the teens. Here were my tiny little baby’s stats

Weight: 8lb 6oz

Height: 21 .5 inches

Husib at one month eats 7-8 times a day but lately he drops a feed here and there now that he is 6 weeks. He sleeps longest usually between 1 am and 5 am, but other than that I can only expect 2 hour sleep increments. He also loves bath time and his swing. We had a mystery person send us the best babygift ever and I never got a chance to thank this person. Its a tiny farm mobile and its Avi’s very favorite toy. He coos at it and stares at it intently and gets so excited whenever I turn it on.  His other favorite things are spitting up on me, lying on his daddys chest in the evenings and staring at me very disapprovingly after feeds. I can’t believe how quickly my little guy is growing up.

Baby, Life, Love, Mommyhood

Baby Names

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Ever since Avi was conceived we’ve had all sorts of nicknames for him and some of them are so cute and one day he will be too old for me or J to use and I’ll forget so here’s my list

Husib ( His very first name, when he was just a thought in J and my head)

He ( when he was born and I could only think of one person and pronouns worked perfectly)

Avinash

Avi

Baby Boy

Jiggly

Bunny butt

Bugaloo

Little man

Little dude

Monkey

Dadubhai

Gator Gator

Mousey

The ones that I use most are Avi, Baby boy, Monkey, Bunny Butt, Jiggly and of course a combination of them.

Like Jiggly + Bunny butt= Jiggly Butt or Bunny Jiggle or Gator + Monkey = GatorMon ( Sounds Jamaican, no?)

I’m lame. I know.

I still sometimes refer to him as husib when talking to J but usually “He” suffices just fine since 90% of our conversations now revolve around him. I wonder if husib will eventually fade out or J and I will use it even when Avi is all grown up.

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Speaking of conversations between me and J. Here is a weird one

J: Are you going to be one of those women who is in a hurry to get grandchildren

N: What?

J: You know will you want Avi to have kids

N: I’m mostly working on getting through tonight, so I haven’t thought that much about it

J: Now that I’m asking you, what do you think?

N: I doubt it, I don’t want more kids, so why would I want grandkids?

J: I don’t know, I just thought we should talk about it.

Uhmmm….okay. I don’t understand boys. I’m just going to leave it at that. Sadly, later that night I thought all about what kind of an adult Avi would be and how his wedding would be , etc etc etc and then I changed his diaper and came right back to reality.