Sunday Brunch with Baby

We had a busy, but fun weekend, and enjoyed Sunday brunch with my friends and their newborn baby boy! What a snuggle bug. I think it was good practice for us to see and hold a newborn, although hubby did accidentally give baby a tiny bonk on the head. oh, sooo embarrassing! SORRY. Baby was quite content though, just one tiny little hey! don't do that of a wail and back to his bottle. Perhaps because he was delivered early via c-section and spent some $75k worth of time in the NICU due to a heart arythmia, he is not at all fussy. Everything is a cake walk and quiet now that all the tubes, beeps, buzzers and poking are done. In any case, we are so thankful that mom and baby are healthy and doing so well. I just loved holding onto him and we got some great advice on breastfeeding, bottle warmers and the like.

As a mom-to-be, I hear so many stories about how babies don't sleep through the night that I didn't stop to think about how much newborns sleep throughout the day. A newborn may sleep as much as 16 hours a day (or even more), often in stretches of 3 to 4 hours at a time. And like the sleep all of us experience, babies have different phases of sleep: drowsiness, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, and very deep sleep. As babies grow, their periods of wakefulness increase.

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