First "tub" bath on February 18th
His awesome Geek bib
3 Weeks old
Aunt Manda
Uncle Tim
Ryan
Tara
Valentine's Day
Kaida and Colin
A "gentle" push
3 Month sized clothes
She's getting better at posing with him
1 Month old
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Dr. Visits
We've had a couple Dr. appointments in the last few weeks. Everyone seems to be growing in leaps and bounds!
At Colin's 3 day apt. he was 6lbs 11 oz. so almost back up to his birth weight.
Next he had a 2 week appointment. At that one he weighed in at 7 lbs 15.5 Oz.
I can't remember his lengths from either of those appointments though. I think they got a length shorter than the hospital at the first visit. And then at his two week Dr. Kovatch said that he had grown a half inch. But I don't know if that was a half inch bigger than the hospital measurement or the office measurement. So maybe there were no changes in length at all. They haven't given me a print out for him, and with trying to keep track of her at the same time I forget to ask.
Kaida's 18 month appointment was yesterday. She was 32 inches tall, 22 pounds 8 ounces, and her head was 48 cm.
So her percentiles were 60th for height, 22 for weight, and 93 for head. She still has a giant noggin but her weight is starting to catch up. He said in their second year they usually gain about 4 pounds and she's already gained half of that so she's right on track.
He asked if she was eating more varieities of food now to explain the big change in percentiles. And I said no, she's always eaten a large variety but now she's just eating more. I told him how she'll bring me snacks from her drawer when she wants something and he thought that was great.
Her soft spot is closed and her lungs are clearly fine. She demonstrated that by screaming the entire time he was in the room with us.
Her next appointment will be when she turns two. It's so far out we couldn't even schedule it yet.
Colin will be 5 weeks next week and that's when we're going to have his 1 month appointment. I'm interested to see his growth again since he's already in the 3 month clothes.
At Colin's 3 day apt. he was 6lbs 11 oz. so almost back up to his birth weight.
Next he had a 2 week appointment. At that one he weighed in at 7 lbs 15.5 Oz.
I can't remember his lengths from either of those appointments though. I think they got a length shorter than the hospital at the first visit. And then at his two week Dr. Kovatch said that he had grown a half inch. But I don't know if that was a half inch bigger than the hospital measurement or the office measurement. So maybe there were no changes in length at all. They haven't given me a print out for him, and with trying to keep track of her at the same time I forget to ask.
Kaida's 18 month appointment was yesterday. She was 32 inches tall, 22 pounds 8 ounces, and her head was 48 cm.
So her percentiles were 60th for height, 22 for weight, and 93 for head. She still has a giant noggin but her weight is starting to catch up. He said in their second year they usually gain about 4 pounds and she's already gained half of that so she's right on track.
He asked if she was eating more varieities of food now to explain the big change in percentiles. And I said no, she's always eaten a large variety but now she's just eating more. I told him how she'll bring me snacks from her drawer when she wants something and he thought that was great.
Her soft spot is closed and her lungs are clearly fine. She demonstrated that by screaming the entire time he was in the room with us.
Her next appointment will be when she turns two. It's so far out we couldn't even schedule it yet.
Colin will be 5 weeks next week and that's when we're going to have his 1 month appointment. I'm interested to see his growth again since he's already in the 3 month clothes.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Pretty Hospital Pictures
When Kaida was born this lame photographer came around with a camera mounted onto a bassinet and took really bad pictures of her. I mean seriously, how do you even take a bad picture of one of the prettiest babies in the world?
Needless to say we did not purchase any.
This time a different company did the pictures. A real photographer came in with a real camera. She was very good at getting him calm and the pictures came out lovely.
The company is Bella Baby Photography and this time we decided to buy some.
Here are a few of the pictures she took.
We used the blanket and hat that JR's mom knitted, and it looks gorgeous!
Needless to say we did not purchase any.
This time a different company did the pictures. A real photographer came in with a real camera. She was very good at getting him calm and the pictures came out lovely.
The company is Bella Baby Photography and this time we decided to buy some.
Here are a few of the pictures she took.
We used the blanket and hat that JR's mom knitted, and it looks gorgeous!
Friday, February 10, 2012
Colin Pictures
Colin
Colin and Mommy
Colin and Daddy
Kaida meets Colin
Kaida holds Colin. She brought baby to him and covered him up. She's a very good big sister.
Kisses
Colin meets the Delaneys
Colin meets the Hagys
Colin's second cloth diaper. We had to change the first one so fast we never got a picture of it.
1 week old.
I had to go to the grocery store so he got his first bottle while I was out.
Kaida brought all her babies to sit with Colin in the Boppy
2 weeks old.
Family of four
Colin and Mommy
Colin and Daddy
Kaida meets Colin
Kaida holds Colin. She brought baby to him and covered him up. She's a very good big sister.
Kisses
Colin meets the Delaneys
Colin meets the Hagys
Colin's second cloth diaper. We had to change the first one so fast we never got a picture of it.
1 week old.
I had to go to the grocery store so he got his first bottle while I was out.
Kaida brought all her babies to sit with Colin in the Boppy
2 weeks old.
Family of four
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Kaida's a Big Sister
I've been telling Kaida with increasing frequency that we're going to bring a baby to come live with us. I know she understands baby so I figured talking about him a lot would maybe help prepare her. She hasn't freaked out yet, so I guess it worked.
The day we came home she saw JR and just yelled for him and ran right by me. Of course he was carrying Colin so she had to wait. But she looked at him right away before she demanded more of JR's attention.
After we got him out of the carrier JR held him and was showing him to her. She touched him a little too. Then JR said "Should we let Grammy hold him?" and she held out her arms like she was going to carry him over to Grammy like one of her baby dolls. It was super cute.
After we were a little more settled she brought her blankie "Baby" over and covered Colin up with him. Also super cute. She walks up to him all the time just to give him kisses too.
She knows the pacifier goes in his mouth so she keeps wanting to put it in for him. Unfortunately that's usually when he's asleep or some other entirely inappropriate time. I guess we'll have to work on that one.
But she seems to be handling it well. She was pretty clingy for a couple days but today the three of us were alone and she was very helpful. And she's definitely feeling better now so that's good too.
The day we came home she saw JR and just yelled for him and ran right by me. Of course he was carrying Colin so she had to wait. But she looked at him right away before she demanded more of JR's attention.
After we got him out of the carrier JR held him and was showing him to her. She touched him a little too. Then JR said "Should we let Grammy hold him?" and she held out her arms like she was going to carry him over to Grammy like one of her baby dolls. It was super cute.
After we were a little more settled she brought her blankie "Baby" over and covered Colin up with him. Also super cute. She walks up to him all the time just to give him kisses too.
She knows the pacifier goes in his mouth so she keeps wanting to put it in for him. Unfortunately that's usually when he's asleep or some other entirely inappropriate time. I guess we'll have to work on that one.
But she seems to be handling it well. She was pretty clingy for a couple days but today the three of us were alone and she was very helpful. And she's definitely feeling better now so that's good too.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
"Colin is Born Part III" or "For Real"
Once I had the epidural I rested for a little while and my water broke for real, I had been convinced that I had a slow leak the whole night.
That's also when they started having trouble getting his heart rate on the monitor. Apparently he dropped two stations when my water broke so his heart was no where near the monitor anymore.
Between 9 and 9:30 they decided to check me again. I had progressed pretty quickly from 5 to 7cm and it had been a while since I was checked. It was a good thing they did 'cause he was definitely ready. The midwife Tanya came in to do the check. And she asked me if it was alright if she delivered my baby. It seems kind of funny that she would ask but that's totally what the midwives are about. And it makes me really glad that we chose them for this birth. So the fourth midwife we saw (Emily D. had popped in for a second at one point) was the one who helped Colin be born.
At one point the nurse Trish sat on the bed and explained how we would push. When she got up to take care of something my leg shot straight down the bed. I was definitely pretty numb. But it was funny 'cause it looked like I was kicking something.
They got everything ready and they asked how it all went with Kaida's birth. JR was bragging how I got her out in 5 pushes and that I only needed one stitch. I told him he was giving me a big reputation to live up to. But whatever, I rocked it anyway.
So unlike Kaida's birth where they pretended to get everything ready and had me do some pushes and when I made progress faster than they expected they hurried to really get ready, they got ready all the way to start with.
I asked for the mirror. It's hard to see what's going on while you're actually pushing but it's nice to be able to see the progress in between.
We did a practice push and everyone said "Whoa!" 'cause apparently that practice push made his head show. Tanya had me feel for it and it was really right there. I could feel a little bit to push this time so that was good. But my only indication that I was having a contraction was that it made me feel more hungry for a minute. Definitely didn't feel like a contraction though. Everyone thought that was funny. But hey, it worked.
I guess there were three more pushes after the practice push and he was born. His one arm was up under his chin and he stretched that out as soon as he could and then the other arm was down at his side so when he came out he had his arms spread wide.
They thought he looked like he was flying, JR thought he was saying "Ta-Da! I'm here!"
I pulled him up onto my chest and JR cut his cord. We got to stay like that for quite a while before they wanted to suck him and weigh him and get him warmed up.
6 pounds, 13 ounces, 20.5 inches long. 9:58 am.
Tanya delivered the placenta and said everything looked good and that I didn't have any tears or scratches. Everyone was impressed by my "stetchy bottom", I feel like I should be proud but that's a little strange.
He latched on like a champ and we actually nursed twice while waiting to go to our post partum room.
It was great.
After he was born I joked that he was one push faster than Kaida so we'd have to keep having kids until I'm down to no pushes at all. JR said that there must be a correlation between increased gestation and decreased pushing (+ 2 weeks of growing time = -1 push) so to get down to zero pushes they'll have cooked for so long that they'll just crawl out on their own.
It's good that JR was sick and he hurt his leg when he fell in the bathtub. When he's sick/injured he is fantastic at making me laugh. It made for quite the horrific/enjoyable evening.
I can't wait to read Bethany's version of our birth story. An outside point of view must be totally different.
Colin is Born Part I
Colin is Born Part II
That's also when they started having trouble getting his heart rate on the monitor. Apparently he dropped two stations when my water broke so his heart was no where near the monitor anymore.
Between 9 and 9:30 they decided to check me again. I had progressed pretty quickly from 5 to 7cm and it had been a while since I was checked. It was a good thing they did 'cause he was definitely ready. The midwife Tanya came in to do the check. And she asked me if it was alright if she delivered my baby. It seems kind of funny that she would ask but that's totally what the midwives are about. And it makes me really glad that we chose them for this birth. So the fourth midwife we saw (Emily D. had popped in for a second at one point) was the one who helped Colin be born.
At one point the nurse Trish sat on the bed and explained how we would push. When she got up to take care of something my leg shot straight down the bed. I was definitely pretty numb. But it was funny 'cause it looked like I was kicking something.
They got everything ready and they asked how it all went with Kaida's birth. JR was bragging how I got her out in 5 pushes and that I only needed one stitch. I told him he was giving me a big reputation to live up to. But whatever, I rocked it anyway.
So unlike Kaida's birth where they pretended to get everything ready and had me do some pushes and when I made progress faster than they expected they hurried to really get ready, they got ready all the way to start with.
I asked for the mirror. It's hard to see what's going on while you're actually pushing but it's nice to be able to see the progress in between.
We did a practice push and everyone said "Whoa!" 'cause apparently that practice push made his head show. Tanya had me feel for it and it was really right there. I could feel a little bit to push this time so that was good. But my only indication that I was having a contraction was that it made me feel more hungry for a minute. Definitely didn't feel like a contraction though. Everyone thought that was funny. But hey, it worked.
I guess there were three more pushes after the practice push and he was born. His one arm was up under his chin and he stretched that out as soon as he could and then the other arm was down at his side so when he came out he had his arms spread wide.
They thought he looked like he was flying, JR thought he was saying "Ta-Da! I'm here!"
I pulled him up onto my chest and JR cut his cord. We got to stay like that for quite a while before they wanted to suck him and weigh him and get him warmed up.
6 pounds, 13 ounces, 20.5 inches long. 9:58 am.
Tanya delivered the placenta and said everything looked good and that I didn't have any tears or scratches. Everyone was impressed by my "stetchy bottom", I feel like I should be proud but that's a little strange.
He latched on like a champ and we actually nursed twice while waiting to go to our post partum room.
It was great.
After he was born I joked that he was one push faster than Kaida so we'd have to keep having kids until I'm down to no pushes at all. JR said that there must be a correlation between increased gestation and decreased pushing (+ 2 weeks of growing time = -1 push) so to get down to zero pushes they'll have cooked for so long that they'll just crawl out on their own.
It's good that JR was sick and he hurt his leg when he fell in the bathtub. When he's sick/injured he is fantastic at making me laugh. It made for quite the horrific/enjoyable evening.
I can't wait to read Bethany's version of our birth story. An outside point of view must be totally different.
Colin is Born Part I
Colin is Born Part II
"Colin is Born Part II" or "Ouch!"
I feel like we had moved to L&D by 3:30 and once we were there I was in almost the same situation I was with Kaida's birth, where I was pretty limited in my movement. No blood pressure cuff this time though, so that was good.
My contractions calmed down a bit, to around 3 minutes again, so that was better. For a while.
I'm a little annoyed that we didn't get to labor at home longer, but we figure we wouldn't have been able to do more than another hour there anyway with the way my contractions progressed
Before the midwives had their shift change at 6 (?) Pamela (the midwife we started with) checked me again. I was 5 cm. So that was a little disheartening.
She told us that Emily D. would be the next Midwife on shift.
In the next hour or so I started to lose control during the contractions. I had trouble finding a position that would let me relax enough to breathe through them. And my back started to hurt during the contractions so I needed to have either JR or Bethany put counter pressure on it.
I'm going to tell you, it is incredibly hard to run away from your own uterus, although I definitely tried several times. And I started to swear at the contractions too. I called one a Bastard. And JR said he was pretty sure I needed the epidural when I started yelling "No, No, No!" at them.
I asked for the Midwives to check me again around 7:00. Emily H. came in to check me because she was covering while the other Emily was in a meeting. At that point I was 7cm.
After a while I decided to get the epidural. Good decision... in the long run.
This time around the anesthesiologists were pretty quick to get there. Unfortunately they sent the "C" team. JR thinks it took between a half hour and an hour for them to actually get the epidural in. First a girl student tried. This time when they said "You might feel some pressure." they weren't kidding. It felt like they were trying to push me off the bed.
After she tried a couple times a guy student tried. He was not successful either. They kept telling me to push my back out further. Guess what, that was not the issue.
Eventually the teacher came over and told me to shift my hips a little bit and he popped that sucker right in. Teaching hospitals, you win some you lose some. (The pain medication I took after he was born was mostly for the back ache they gave me, so I think that's pretty funny)
During the epidural procedure I actually had a pretty good handle on the contractions. I think sitting cross legged helped, plus I wasn't allowed to move so there really was no other option than to be in control. I almost thought of telling them to give it up at one point but then I had another bad contraction so I decided to let them keep going.
It also took longer for this epidural to kick in than the last one did. But eventually I was not feeling the contractions at all again. Maybe around 8:30.
Colin is Born Part III
Colin is Born Part I
My contractions calmed down a bit, to around 3 minutes again, so that was better. For a while.
I'm a little annoyed that we didn't get to labor at home longer, but we figure we wouldn't have been able to do more than another hour there anyway with the way my contractions progressed
Before the midwives had their shift change at 6 (?) Pamela (the midwife we started with) checked me again. I was 5 cm. So that was a little disheartening.
She told us that Emily D. would be the next Midwife on shift.
In the next hour or so I started to lose control during the contractions. I had trouble finding a position that would let me relax enough to breathe through them. And my back started to hurt during the contractions so I needed to have either JR or Bethany put counter pressure on it.
I'm going to tell you, it is incredibly hard to run away from your own uterus, although I definitely tried several times. And I started to swear at the contractions too. I called one a Bastard. And JR said he was pretty sure I needed the epidural when I started yelling "No, No, No!" at them.
I asked for the Midwives to check me again around 7:00. Emily H. came in to check me because she was covering while the other Emily was in a meeting. At that point I was 7cm.
After a while I decided to get the epidural. Good decision... in the long run.
This time around the anesthesiologists were pretty quick to get there. Unfortunately they sent the "C" team. JR thinks it took between a half hour and an hour for them to actually get the epidural in. First a girl student tried. This time when they said "You might feel some pressure." they weren't kidding. It felt like they were trying to push me off the bed.
After she tried a couple times a guy student tried. He was not successful either. They kept telling me to push my back out further. Guess what, that was not the issue.
Eventually the teacher came over and told me to shift my hips a little bit and he popped that sucker right in. Teaching hospitals, you win some you lose some. (The pain medication I took after he was born was mostly for the back ache they gave me, so I think that's pretty funny)
During the epidural procedure I actually had a pretty good handle on the contractions. I think sitting cross legged helped, plus I wasn't allowed to move so there really was no other option than to be in control. I almost thought of telling them to give it up at one point but then I had another bad contraction so I decided to let them keep going.
It also took longer for this epidural to kick in than the last one did. But eventually I was not feeling the contractions at all again. Maybe around 8:30.
Colin is Born Part III
Colin is Born Part I
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