First Bath

6 days old...

Cant believe he is almost a week old already! Time sure does fly.

We had his follow up weight check with the pedi today since he lost so much after birth. He was 6lb3oz when born and 5lb9oz at 3 days old. So he lost 10 oz in his first 3 days... well he gained all 10 back in the last 3 days! Im very happy about that! Obviously my milk has come in so he is getting a lot more to eat, making him and me both more happy!

I still haven't gotten too much sleep, he nurses alllll the time. He will usually eat for at least 45 minutes, then I will pump for about 15, and then he will be hungry again 1 hr after I finish pumping. So basically I can get 1 hour of sleep at a time at night. I feel pretty exhausted but we are coping.

My "small tear" has me in excruciating pain. I don't care if its "just" a tear, when I pee and the urine hits the open sore, all I can say is OWWWWWW. I am hoping that it starts to heal soon, as its hard to get up and down because it is so sore. Im having to have chad do A LOT for me, because I dont feel like being in pain just to get something to drink, kwim? Im now 6 days PP so hopefully it is starting to heal.

Will post more pics soon!

A few pics

4 days old

Well my baby boy is almost 4 days old already. Our first night home was HORRIBLE, as my milk wasn't in yet and the poor thing was starving. I know he was getting what he needed from the colustrum but his poor lil tummy wasnt full so he just cried and cried all night long. I basically got ZERO sleep because I was nursing every 1-1.5 hours for 45 min at a time. So it was nurse 45 min... then again 15-45 minutes later... talk about exhausting.

My milk did finally come in yesterday but it isn't quite up to par with the amount he wants yet, so I am pumping between feedings. Last night was a lot better, I mean A LOT better. He ate at about 11 and fell asleep at about 12, slept til 1, ate, slept til 4, ate, and it is now 8am and he is STILL sleeping. Im expecting a very fussy and hungry baby to wake up any minute now. Im guessing he was exhausted too from not really sleeping the night before.

He had his first pedi appointment yesterday too. He was down to 5lb 9oz, he was 5lb 11oz when we left the hospital so not too bad I guess. She doesn't want him losing much more though so she was the one who recommended I start pumping between nursing sessions. I have a whole 2oz of breast milk in the fridge!! (OK its weird that Im super excited about this, but it is a BIG deal to me, lol). Everything else at the appointment went really well... he is only actually 18.5 inches long, but the hospital told us he was probably shorter than 19inches anyways cause they measured him when he had his huge cone head... hehe.

The dogs have done a pretty good job so far, they have spent the majority of the time outside. At night they get to sleep inside and Tucker whines allllll night, so we will have to find a way to deal with that. Ginger gets REALLY excited anytime she is near Cody, so we just have to get her to calm down.

I will try and upload more pictures soon, I haven't had very much time at all to even take pictures, yesterday was full of trying to soothe a crying baby.

I will let you know how today goes!

He is here!

So induction was schedule for Sat morning, when I got up Sat I started to have my bloody show, so I knew I was getting close on my own. We got to the hospital at 6:30 Saturday morning, they didn't want to start me up til after shift change at 7 so I sat around from 6:30 until 8 when they started the pitocin.

My dr. came in at 8:45 and I was a "good" 2cm and 90+% effaced. At that time she broke my water... can we say ewwwww. Def felt like I was peeing myself. As soon as my water was broken I started feeling the contractions A LOT better.

I was checked again at 10 and at that time i was up to 4cm and completely effaced, I asked for staidol (sp?) at this time to take the edge off the ctx because they were getting really intense and only about 1-2 min apart and lasting 1 min. That helped a lot but wore off after 1 hour and they wouldnt give me any more for 2 more hours, so I had them check me at 11:45 to see if there was any change to see if I could make it without an epi. Well when she checked me I was only at 4.5cm so I had barely changed in 2 hours so I knew I wouldn't be able to make it without some more drugs, and since they wouldnt give me anything else I got the epi.
The anesthesiologist did a great job as I could still feel the contractions and my legs werent numb and when it came time to push I easily felt the pressure.

So I got the epi at about 12 when I was 4.5cm, they checked me again at 1:20 and I was 9.5cm! So 5cm in about 1.5hours, if I would have known it would go that fast I might not have gotten the epi.

I started pushing at 2:15 and at 3:04 he entered the world with a HUGE cone head! He was 6lb 3oz and 19in long. A full lb less than what the dr. thought he would be.

I had a post pardum hemorrhage and lost A LOT of blood so I had to have a blood transfusion yesterday, besides that I have been feeling great. We came home today, if it werent for the hemorrhage I would have been able to come home yesterday.


Here are some pics, we have tons of them and its hard to pick my favorites!

place your bets!!

So since Cody will be here in FOUR (!) days I thought I would be fun to post guesses on his weight and length. His estimated weight at 31w2d was 4lb 6oz and his femur was measuring as a 34weeker. He will be born at 39w exactly. So leave a comment with your guesses!!

Pictures!!

Here is me at 38 weeks:


These are a few of the maternity photos that were taken at 34 weeks:











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