Tuesday Kendall celebrated her 2 week birthday! She's getting so old! Seriously, she already looks and acts differently than she did when we brought her home. It's amazing.
Things are going pretty well. She finally gained some weight (she's up to 7 pounds, 6 ounces) so we don't have to go back to the doctor until February. Praise God for insurance!!
Unfortunately, breastfeeding just didn't work out for me. I was pumping and feeding her expressed milk until yesterday when it seems I ran out of milk...don't know what's up with that. Never heard of it happening before, but it did. She was on Enfamil GentLease as a supplement anyway and she seems to be liking that, so we'll stick with it. Maybe I'll have better luck with the breastfeeding next go round.
James and I have worked out a 1st shift, 2nd shift system that seems to be working well for us as far as sleep. He takes care of her during the first part of the night and I take care of her the second part. That way we both get uninterrupted sleep for a few hours. Kendall is a really good baby...we've only had one actual "sleepless" night so far. "So far" being the key phrase here...I'm not naive enough to think my sleepless nights are over with!
The precious thing is sleeping right now. We wore her out with a bath and I royally ticked her off by pulling out the blue bulb and sucking her nose. She was FURIOUS! But, I'm sure breathing much much better after the removal of those boogies she had. Yes, folks - I'm officially a mom...I say things like boogies.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Sunday, January 6, 2008
One week ago...
...I was gearing up for my induction and now here we are, happily at home! Praise the Lord!!
I won't bore you with too many details of the labor. Here's a quick rundown:
I was admitted Sunday, the 30th and given the cervical gel to thin my cervix. I was up all night with back pain from that...wouldn't necessarily consider them contractions, but not fun either. My Pitocin was started at 7 a.m. on Monday, the 31st and that got to working pretty quickly. At some point I asked for an epidural and got it and experienced relief for a few hours. Doc came and checked me and I was dilated some, but unfortunately the epidural was wearing off, so they tried to "top it off". At around midnight, I was ready to start pushing, but after a couple of hours of that, we realized that I wasn't progressing at all. The doctor told me I was pushing "ineffectively"...thanks, pal. At this point, I was pretty frantic and panicked, thinking that the labor was never going to end. They prepped me for a CSection and Kendall was born at 2:23 a.m. on New Year's Day!
She is so beautiful and perfect...I'm just overwhelmed at God's goodness. I look at her and just cry because I love her so much and I understand the responsibility God has given me to take care of her. I pray that we raise her up to love the Lord and to serve Him with her life. She's just amazing.
Couple of things you can pray for:
1. Kendall is a little jaundiced. We have an appointment tomorrow morning to check that out.
2. Breast feeding is going kind of slow. My milk still isn't really in. I have a small supply, but I'm worried it's not an adequate one. The hospital hooked me up with a pumping/formula schedule to increase my milk (Kendall wasn't eating from the breast while I was in the hospital) and I think it's going well. I'm going to try today to only breast feed and see how it goes. Please pray that this works out for us.
I won't bore you with too many details of the labor. Here's a quick rundown:
I was admitted Sunday, the 30th and given the cervical gel to thin my cervix. I was up all night with back pain from that...wouldn't necessarily consider them contractions, but not fun either. My Pitocin was started at 7 a.m. on Monday, the 31st and that got to working pretty quickly. At some point I asked for an epidural and got it and experienced relief for a few hours. Doc came and checked me and I was dilated some, but unfortunately the epidural was wearing off, so they tried to "top it off". At around midnight, I was ready to start pushing, but after a couple of hours of that, we realized that I wasn't progressing at all. The doctor told me I was pushing "ineffectively"...thanks, pal. At this point, I was pretty frantic and panicked, thinking that the labor was never going to end. They prepped me for a CSection and Kendall was born at 2:23 a.m. on New Year's Day!
She is so beautiful and perfect...I'm just overwhelmed at God's goodness. I look at her and just cry because I love her so much and I understand the responsibility God has given me to take care of her. I pray that we raise her up to love the Lord and to serve Him with her life. She's just amazing.
Couple of things you can pray for:
1. Kendall is a little jaundiced. We have an appointment tomorrow morning to check that out.
2. Breast feeding is going kind of slow. My milk still isn't really in. I have a small supply, but I'm worried it's not an adequate one. The hospital hooked me up with a pumping/formula schedule to increase my milk (Kendall wasn't eating from the breast while I was in the hospital) and I think it's going well. I'm going to try today to only breast feed and see how it goes. Please pray that this works out for us.
Right after delivery
Sweet baby girl
Finally at home
Snug as a bug
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