First Bath

Isaac likes his bath! Ethan can't wait until Isaac is big enough to bath with him. He talks about it all of the time. Ethan liked helping give him a bath though.

Isaac Photoshoot

 

 

 

I took some pictures of Isaac when he was one week old. He is such a precious baby, and he hardly cries. When he does cry he has quite the lungs! He smiles in his sleep ALL of the time, it so cute! We can't wait until he starts being awake a little more because he is still sleeping most of the time. Ethan loves him so much, and has been quite the helper! He is pro at grabbing  the diaper bag for me, and has been very gentle with Isaac. I am so glad because I was really worried about how he would act. But Isaac has stolen all of our hearts...even Ethan's!

Visitors

We were so lucky to have some visitors right after Isaac was born. Living away from family is hard sometimes, so it was so nice of everyone to come and see us! We had my mom staying with us the whole week after he was born. I don't know what we would have done without her, especially with all of the NICU stuff. Ethan was her shadow the entire time she was here. The weekend right after Isaac was born Chris and Aline came down to see us. It was too bad that Isaac wasn't out of the hospital yet, so they didn't get to hold him or anything. But it was so great to see them and Ethan was so happy to see his cousins. Then at the end of the week my entire family (except Morgan, which is so sad!) came down to pick my mom up and see Isaac. Ethan loved having everyone around and we did too! I'm so glad that everyone made the trip for us!

Isaac Is Here!

I went in Friday morning for my scheduled induction, we started at 8:00. Isaac's delivery was awesome! I was dilated to a two and quickly progressed from there. They gave me an epidural at a five and then broke my water when I was at a seven. After I got to a seven things slowed down and I stopped dilating so quickly. The nurse had me switch from side to side to help move things along. By about 3:00 I was fully dilated and ready to go! The nurse called the doctor, and he was rushing to get there. The worst part of the delivery was trying to keep Isaac in! When the doctor finally got there I finally got the go-ahead to push and ten minutes later he was here! They took him over and gave him his bath and all of that kind of stuff, and they also let me feed him. Then the nurse mentioned that he was laboring to breath a little bit. I noticed that his cry wasn't as loud and strong as Ethan's right after he was born. They figured that he just needed to get a little something out of his lungs and tried to get him to cry and suction out his mouth, but he was still struggling. They said they were going to take him to be monitored in the nursery for awhile. It ended up being 4 days! We didn't get the full scoop until later but he had swallowed some amniotic fluid on the way out and we had to have several chest x-rays and blood tests to make sure that there was no infection and that it didn't turn into pneumonia. They let me stay an extra day at the hospital to make feeding him easier. Driving back and forth after I went home was really draining and it made me so sad for the moms that have their babies in there for weeks and weeks. The positives of this experience were that I got a lot of rest, and Isaac is now on a great schedule thanks to the NICU! I won't list the negatives. We couldn't have done it without my mom here bending to Ethan's every whim. She has done everything for us and we are so grateful. We are so so so so happy to have our baby home. He is completely healthy, the fluid just had to work it's way out. He is adorable. Ethan is adjusting well too, he spends his time alternating between pretending like he is a baby, and helping the baby. It is cute. So our blog is about to be bombarded with pictures of the cutest baby in the world. If my shameless bragging about my children bothers you, then please refrain from reading this blog for the next 18+ years. :)