Nicole's Adventures

September 20, 2020 With the snap of a finger our sweet Luke is already almost 6 months old. Reading through the last post, so much has changed with him!  He sleeps all night in his crib, and recently we have stopped giving him a dream feed (a feeding while he continues to sleep but before we go to bed), and only feed him once during the night when he wakes up. His bed time is around 730pm and he wakes up usually around 2-3am to eat, and sleeps until 6am or some days later. We have also started to do a little bit of sleep training to help him learn to fall asleep on his own. It is really hard to listen to him cry, but he has learned so quickly. We started last Monday and stayed in the room with him with a hand on his chest while he cried for a long time, the next night only two minutes and then he didn't cry at all when we put him in bed the nights after that. Every once in a while he will cry but it's not for very long and he gets nice and comfy,sometimes sleeping on his side. ...

June 16, 2020 I figure I better date these entries from now on because I am sure I will start writing them and be interrupted often and maybe not finish a post until weeks after I started. Luke is 11 weeks old and is such a different little boy than he was when we brought him home from the hospital! He is really blossoming into his little personality, and into his body! He eats really well and very often, still like a clock almost every two hours during the day time. He enjoys his bicycle rides and rattle socks and being very active! He loves looking at curtains, and the shelves in the kitchen. As well as the red bus book from his Grammy Beth! Luke went on his first trip to Algarve last week and was a super traveler. He slept the whole time in the car, and adapted pretty easily to not being in his own home. He stayed with his Aunty by himself for the first time away from mom and dad and was a great boy, except he choose to do an explosive poo on his Aunt Cristina's leg! Sor...

Just a few short days after my last post, we had an early arrival! Before I forget the wild ride that was Luke's birthday and entrance into the world, I wanted to document those crazy hours! As I mentioned in the previous post, our local hospital was not allowing the father to attend the birth or enter the hospital at all, so we had been researching any alternative within an hours driving distance. We found a private hospital but had to have an appointment there if there were to let us deliver there. We woke up early on March 28th to arrive there for our 9am appointment. It was north of Porto so about an hours drive from our house. As we were getting in the car, I jokingly told Joel to grab my hospital bags, because you never know what might happen! And the nurses in our birth prep class also said you should always be prepared starting around 37 weeks! Entering the hospital, we were questioned to be sure we don't have Corona virus, then given masks. Joel was allowed into...