11.15.2011

first days & weeks

ricky's first weeks were a blur of medication, sleep, shock, pain & of course... falling in love.  he was my tiniest baby & seemed to keep shrinking until we realized that he wasn't getting the nourishment he needed from my milk & switched to formula.  my mom & i would undress him & he looked like a little bird, it was so sad!  he fussed a lot, but when we figured it out (an episode that included me on the floor of rite aid bawling & feeding him a bottle i ripped out of a package) he was a new, happy & content little man & started packing on the ounces.  these pictures are some of his first & you can see how tiny he was at one point, barely 5 pounds...