Holding Henry

Molly continues to show affection towards her baby brother - making sure we know when he's crying (as if we couldn't tell) and petting him and saying "It's alright, Henry." Here she is holding him, which she loves to do whenever we let her.



She also loves playing with our cameras (maybe she even loves that more than she loves Henry - who knows?). Here's a shot she took of her adoring parents!


Henry, meanwhile, has woken up a bit more since his early weeks. He now typically has a sustained fussy period at least once a day, usually in the evening. He's nursing pretty well, though still not really on much of a regular schedule or for regular lengths of time at each nursing session, so that unpredictability can be frustrating. He also is really resisting taking a bottle. We have given him one bottle of pumped breast milk a day for the last three weeks, but he really doesn't like it and typically only takes 2-3 ounces, which takes about an hour. It's frustrating - Mommy certainly doesn't intend to nurse him for every feeding for the rest of his first year, so he'd better get over this!