Learning Jonathan
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
As of today, Jonathan’s 3 weeks old and we’ve had him home for two of those.
He is a dear little chap (especially when he’s asleep 
) and we’ve been learning a lot about him, on the job as it were.
- The two most commonly observed states of Jonathan are: awake-and-hungry (he always wakes up hungry) and asleep. Other variations exist but these are the primary ones.
- Bath water needs to be at 37°C for a peaceful bath time.
- Milk in a bottle (his 10pm feed) happily accepted at any temperature we choose to offer it.
- He’s a guzzler and bottles will be sucked down as fast as he can make it. (Usually 30 minutes including enforced breaks.)
- Currently he wants about 120ml for the late night feed.
- His lip doesn’t affect his breast-feeding but there is a bit of a knack to the bottle feeding, which Dad has mastered fortunately.
- He can be relied upon to sleep for 2 — 2.5 hours after 3 of his 4 daytime feeds. The 3 seem to be chosen at random.
- Ensuring a good 10pm feed will set him up to sleep through to just after 3am, and from there he’ll still be sleeping at 07h15 when we wake him up.
- While great at launching his head forward out of a semi-reclining position, he is absolutely no good at halting its momentum once it’s started!
- The record for an orthopaedic (specially-shaped) dummy staying in his mouth without assistance is about 10 seconds. (Regular dummies do much better.)
- He’s extremely well-tuned to knowing when he’s been short-changed on a feed. The ‘hungry’ flag will not be reset until he’s as full as he can get.
- He’s a bit of an art-lover, happy to spend long minutes staring at the print of Starry Night Over the Rhone on his wall from his changing-mat.
