Sunday

Michael turned 5 weeks old yesterday. It's hard to believe that much time has passed already. He has put on a lot of weight. In fact, Mom hadn't seen him in a while and said she would not have recognized him. His cheeks are chubby and he has developed a double chin.

We still don't sleep throgh the night and Vince and I are trying to survive that. I'm not in a rush for Michael to grow up, but I am ready to fast forward a few weeks where we can sleep for more than three hours at a time. The only one sleeping well in the house is Jacob.

I've given myself a bit of a break from the KS research. I did, however, watch the episode of "A Baby Story" on TLC called "Baby Drake". I would have liked to have seen more detail on the procedure that the dad went through, but I guess that's not the point of the program. One thing they said in the program was that KS comes from the mom's side. In all my research that I've done, I have never found that to be a fact. Instead, everything I've read indicates that they are not sure where it comes from. The problem occurs during meiosis 1 or 2. Meiosis 1 is during egg division, prior to fertilization, which would indicate the problem occured on mom's side. But, Meiosis 2 occurs after fertilization, so that could be either a problem with the sperm or the egg. In my situation, it probably happened during meiosis 1 since I'm a "mature mom", but there's no way to tell. Besides, who cares? I'm not sure what the point of knowing would be, other than for assigning blame or guilt.

The bottom line is I have a healthy, awesome baby boy. And, all the people I've met online who also have KS are awesome men. I would be proud to be mom to any of them.