Halloween 2015, Astronaut, Rocket-ship, and Jupiter
Pumpkin patch
My buddy’s wedding.
Birthday celebration
Roadtrippin.
As you can tell we’ve had a few adventures since I last updated this. I’ve had a birthday, we took Cassius to a pumpkin patch, we went to a wedding which I was a grooms man in, and we got to do an awesome first family costume thing for Halloween. Cassius has been doing great so far! Still only wakes up about once in the night, and then again at 430/5am. Which isn’t bad, the wife gets up for the 1am wake up and I get up for the 430 wake up time since I need to get ready to go and workout and start my day anyways. He actually did really good again on this past roadtrip. We stopped maybe twice to stretch and feed him which makes the trips that much better. Before we just use to go on one tank of gas, stop, fill up, and go again. Now with having him here we’ve actually stopped and taken the time to look at places even if its just for a few mins here and there. It’s one thing I say is a big plus and something I never really thought of until we were driving home. Cassius slept most of the time and only had a few bad bouts where he was really really tired and need his binky right away but other than that it was an A okay trip!
Most people that have a preemie of their own will not go out of the house within the first year. Uhhhh fuck that shit, do you know how boring it is to be at home for just the weekend? No way were going to be cooped up inside for a year. I know, I know, preemies are more prone to getting sick and shit but really Cassius isn’t like most preemies I think. He’s doing great and the change in weather every where we go doesn’t seem to affect him. Now I’m no doctor or anything so don’t go and take your baby out of the NICU or newly let out of the hospital baby out on a roadtrip to some shady location because you want to get out of the house. We still take caution when we are out and don’t let a lot of strangers get to close to him. (Which happens and I didn’t know it until we had a baby. People actually feel comfortable enough to come up to you directly and pinch your kids cheeks. Like who does that ? I don’t know if you washed your hands or you just finished picking your nose WTF??!) So we don’t go dragging our kid in the mud or anything just yet but still we feel we are giving him enough exposure to the outside world where he comes into contact with some germs but not enough to be really scared of.
It’s all up to you and how comfortable you feel on taking your kid out on a roadtrip, but make sure you are prepared for everything, take one of everything at least. A jacket , long pants , socks and beanies for the baby and anything else that you think “Maybe we won’t need this?” No! Fucking take it! Also like I said be prepared for making stops and changing the baby in the car or out in the rest areas , most places don’t have changing tables to that is an adjustment in itself to work around with.
Till next time have fun!
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