2 weeks already?!

Catcher is 2 weeks old today, I was fully prepared for him to have to stay in the hospital till this point, considering he was born at 34 weeks gestation, that's 6 weeks early!! But he's already been home over 3 days, i can hardly believe how normal it feels now. He is such a good eater and sleeper, because he was born so early i really try to just let him sleep between every feeding, his little body still needs all that extra rest to grow and catch up. I so enjoy the brief times in the day when he's actually alert and awake, i usually get that once or twice a day for about a half hour each. He just likes to look around, because he was premature he can't focus on anything yet, his eyes were not meant to be seeing the outside world yet! Thankfully he's not really much of a crier, he makes a bit of noise when it's time to eat, mostly just little grunts and sigh's until i pick him up, then he quiets right down. Very rare to actually hear him cry though, about once or twice a day also, if that, he is so content all the time.

I'm really feeling the lack of sleep and that's been the hardest part so far. Because he is a preemie it's important to wake him and feed him every three hours, whether he would have woken up or not, and at night, that gets very tiring night after night. But it's all worth it, i know this phase won't last forever, and i love my time with him, and at night i'm not so worried about what the girls are doing while i have my quiet time with little Catcher, so that's nice.

Catcher had an outing to GrandDad and Nana's house last night (my dad and step-mom)but he was held the whole time and was more upset and irritable when we got home than he usually is, so i'm really learning that he just wants to sleep and be left alone between feedings, if he doesn't get good solid sleep then he doesn't eat well at the next feeding and that makes him feel yucky. Poor little guy, but he's getting me trained already, i know who's in charge here and it hasn't been me for quite some time :) Good thing i'm not a control freak or anything HAHA, oh well, i'm learning that lesson i suppose, i love all of my kids, they've all been little miracles and Catcher is certainly no different.