Poor Belle cannot get well it seems like. She came home after I had Ethan with a stomach bug that gave her diarrhea. She was over that for a few days when a mild cough started, and has had that for bout a week. Then last night she was up half the night throwing up only to wake up with more diarrhea.
Can we all just get a break!!!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Sunday Best
We took Ethan to his first church service. Both kids looked so darn cute.
And just cause they are so darn cute.
More cuteness:
- She calls Ethan "monkey toes". She'll get up on the chair beside the diaper changer and call him monkey toes. Nic was showing Belle his feet one night and called him that and I guess it stuck.
- She loves to hold Ethan. She's always saying "holdy?"
- She's been helping me burp Ethan. She'll come over and pat his back with me.
And just cause they are so darn cute.
More cuteness:
- She calls Ethan "monkey toes". She'll get up on the chair beside the diaper changer and call him monkey toes. Nic was showing Belle his feet one night and called him that and I guess it stuck.
- She loves to hold Ethan. She's always saying "holdy?"
- She's been helping me burp Ethan. She'll come over and pat his back with me.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Hospital Photo
Albeit very small and grainy, here is Ethan's hospital portrait. No more baby mug shots. These people did an excellent job with Belle's pictures and we just had to have a matching one fore Ethan.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Big Sister
Belle came home on sunday and met Ethan. She has wet hair because she had to immediately get a bath. She had thrown up in the car. She spent the next several days sick and feeling kinda crummy.
She loves her new brother. She loves to hold him and give him his bottle. She'll also let us know as soon as he cries.
She said something funny today. While I was changing Ethan's diaper, Belle climbed up on the table and pointed at his umbilical cord. She called it "belly poopy". How funny is that?
His first bath
She loves her new brother. She loves to hold him and give him his bottle. She'll also let us know as soon as he cries.
She said something funny today. While I was changing Ethan's diaper, Belle climbed up on the table and pointed at his umbilical cord. She called it "belly poopy". How funny is that?
His first bath
Saturday, October 04, 2008
He's Here!!
Some of you may have already seen my sister's blog and saw some pictures, but here are some more for you.
Ethan Amadeus entered the world at 1:57pm weighing in at 8lbs 5oz and 21 inches long on Thursday Oct. 2nd. He was about 6oz heavier than Belle was. I thought for sure he'd weigh less, going by the ultrasound I had 2 weeks earlier.
I'll post a birth story on this post, but I must say that this experience was MUCH better. Some of you know that I had a horrible tear with Belle and while I still tore this time, it was no where near as bad.
**Warning** Some ooey gooey pictures are included. Don't look if that grosses you out.
Here is me still pregnant. And the proud papa.
I love this picture for some reason. Maybe it's the cute little tushy. Oh and by the way, Ethan did not get a crooked butt crack like Belle. Darn =)
Here is my "what? you want me touch him?" picture. I wasn't expecting them to just throw him on my stomach. With Belle, she had meconium and so they had to wisk her off to the NICU nurses.
Here he is. He looks a lot fuller in these pictures. He's since lost some weight and is down to 7lbs 15oz.
Us getting ready to come home.
Stay tuned for some pictures when Belle gets to meet him tomorrow when my inlaws bring her home.
BIRTH STORY:
7:30 - Nic and I arrive at the hospital for the induction. The nurses were already in the room waiting for me. I got into my gown and worked on getting my IV going.
8:30 - Dr. Davidson came by and broke my water and got my pitocin started. I wasn't expecting them to break my water right off the bat. I was a little scared of the pitocin too cause I had heard some bad things about it. While the Dr. was doing her thing she checked me and I was 4cm 75% effaced.
I just sat back and hung out at this point. The pitocin was doing it's job cause I started getting crampy right away. Nothing too awful though.
10:00 - They were upping my pitocin every half hour or so and things got progressively more painful. Still nothing I didn't think I could handle.
11:00 - Thing are getting a little worse in the pain dept. Enough that I was having to breath through the contractions. I decide that Im not going to be a martyr and ask for the epidural. I figured that I'm going to get one in the end anyways and so why deal with this pain now.
11:45 - The epidural nurse comes in and not a moment too soon. I was really glad I asked for it when I did because the contractions are coming fast and furious at this point.
Once they got the epidural in they checked me and I was at 6cm. It probably took about 45 min to get the epi in once everything got situated and done.
After about 15 minutes the nurses came back cause I was having some break through pain. Nothing horrible, just enough pain that I was feeling it, even with the epidural. That and I was starting to shake uncontrollably. I should've known something was up cause the one nurse looked at the other nurse and just shook her head. They left saying that they were going to get the warmer and call Dr. Davidson.
I pushed my little epidural button since they said it would probably take 30 minutes to take effect. It gave me a little extra dose of medicine to combat the break through pain.
The nurses come back in after calling the Dr. They ask me if I was feeling any pressure, I said no. Not 5 minutes after they leave I do start to feel pressure.
1:00 - They call the Dr back and tell her to head on over. I guess the Dr. had said to just let me "labor down". Well that wasn't needed cause I was ready to push.
So we all just hung out waiting for the dr. to get there. I continued to feel more and more pressure. Sara decides to nurse Brody and send him out with Poppy. About the time the Dr. gets there Brody decides to poop up his back and holds up progress. We had to wait to he got cleaned up so that the Dr. could move in her equipment and we could get started.
1:20 - I start pushing. This time I had just enough epidural that I could feel something, just not pain. We took things a lot slower so that I could "stretch".
1:57 - Ethan was born!! I totally was not expecting them to just throw him up on my stomach. I didn't get to experience that with Belle because she had to be rushed over to the nurses because of the meconium in the water. The nurse actually had to grab my hand and put it on him. While I love my son dearly, I really was just thinking to myself "can't you just clean him first".
He was much bigger than we all thought and I was glad that we didn't wait til he was 40 weeks.
Ethan Amadeus entered the world at 1:57pm weighing in at 8lbs 5oz and 21 inches long on Thursday Oct. 2nd. He was about 6oz heavier than Belle was. I thought for sure he'd weigh less, going by the ultrasound I had 2 weeks earlier.
I'll post a birth story on this post, but I must say that this experience was MUCH better. Some of you know that I had a horrible tear with Belle and while I still tore this time, it was no where near as bad.
**Warning** Some ooey gooey pictures are included. Don't look if that grosses you out.
Here is me still pregnant. And the proud papa.
I love this picture for some reason. Maybe it's the cute little tushy. Oh and by the way, Ethan did not get a crooked butt crack like Belle. Darn =)
Here is my "what? you want me touch him?" picture. I wasn't expecting them to just throw him on my stomach. With Belle, she had meconium and so they had to wisk her off to the NICU nurses.
Here he is. He looks a lot fuller in these pictures. He's since lost some weight and is down to 7lbs 15oz.
Us getting ready to come home.
Stay tuned for some pictures when Belle gets to meet him tomorrow when my inlaws bring her home.
BIRTH STORY:
7:30 - Nic and I arrive at the hospital for the induction. The nurses were already in the room waiting for me. I got into my gown and worked on getting my IV going.
8:30 - Dr. Davidson came by and broke my water and got my pitocin started. I wasn't expecting them to break my water right off the bat. I was a little scared of the pitocin too cause I had heard some bad things about it. While the Dr. was doing her thing she checked me and I was 4cm 75% effaced.
I just sat back and hung out at this point. The pitocin was doing it's job cause I started getting crampy right away. Nothing too awful though.
10:00 - They were upping my pitocin every half hour or so and things got progressively more painful. Still nothing I didn't think I could handle.
11:00 - Thing are getting a little worse in the pain dept. Enough that I was having to breath through the contractions. I decide that Im not going to be a martyr and ask for the epidural. I figured that I'm going to get one in the end anyways and so why deal with this pain now.
11:45 - The epidural nurse comes in and not a moment too soon. I was really glad I asked for it when I did because the contractions are coming fast and furious at this point.
Once they got the epidural in they checked me and I was at 6cm. It probably took about 45 min to get the epi in once everything got situated and done.
After about 15 minutes the nurses came back cause I was having some break through pain. Nothing horrible, just enough pain that I was feeling it, even with the epidural. That and I was starting to shake uncontrollably. I should've known something was up cause the one nurse looked at the other nurse and just shook her head. They left saying that they were going to get the warmer and call Dr. Davidson.
I pushed my little epidural button since they said it would probably take 30 minutes to take effect. It gave me a little extra dose of medicine to combat the break through pain.
The nurses come back in after calling the Dr. They ask me if I was feeling any pressure, I said no. Not 5 minutes after they leave I do start to feel pressure.
1:00 - They call the Dr back and tell her to head on over. I guess the Dr. had said to just let me "labor down". Well that wasn't needed cause I was ready to push.
So we all just hung out waiting for the dr. to get there. I continued to feel more and more pressure. Sara decides to nurse Brody and send him out with Poppy. About the time the Dr. gets there Brody decides to poop up his back and holds up progress. We had to wait to he got cleaned up so that the Dr. could move in her equipment and we could get started.
1:20 - I start pushing. This time I had just enough epidural that I could feel something, just not pain. We took things a lot slower so that I could "stretch".
1:57 - Ethan was born!! I totally was not expecting them to just throw him up on my stomach. I didn't get to experience that with Belle because she had to be rushed over to the nurses because of the meconium in the water. The nurse actually had to grab my hand and put it on him. While I love my son dearly, I really was just thinking to myself "can't you just clean him first".
He was much bigger than we all thought and I was glad that we didn't wait til he was 40 weeks.
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