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Monday, July 25, 2011
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Check out the birth announcement I made for Carter! Thanks to Taylor and Jen Howard for taking the cute pics of him!
Friday, July 8, 2011
I'M A MOM!!!
So this is a LONG overdue post, but I've obviously been a little busy. As of July 4th, Nate and I are parents! I got to be in the delivery room...it was a wonderful experience. I will try to post about our hospital experience later, but I've definitely been a little preoccupied! We got to come home on the 5th, which was nice, and we have been enjoying being a family of 3.
So far he has been eating around every 2 hrs during the day and every 3-4 hrs at night. You would think this would give us lots of sleep, but apparently newborn babies make lots of noises when they sleep, and all these little noises keep waking the new, overprotective parents up! We've kinda worked out a system where I go to bed really early and get a few hours of sleep while Nate is still awake with Carter, and then he goes to bed for the rest of the night while I do one more feeding and then hopefully get Carter asleep and in his cradle so I can get a few more hours before morning. I actually got 8 hours of sleep last night, it was just divided up.
Carter seems really strong to me. He already moves his head around alot, and is very good at moving his arms and legs (reflexively I think). He can also roll over onto his side. He also moved himself to the side of his cradle last night. I put him in the middle of his crib, and when I woke up he had moved his head over to the edge of his crib close to me. It was really cute. He also isn't a huge fan of his pacifier, and whenever he doesn't want it, he will open his mouth and shake his head no. I think he's just trying to get it out of his mouth, but I'm going to pretend that he's telling me he "no, I don't want that!" He also LOVES riding in the car, it always makes him fall asleep. All this and he's only 4 days old!
I will do my best to post more later, though it has definitely gotten more difficult to find the time! Luckily Nate's parents are here right now so they are watching our little guy. I'll leave you with some pictures of our wonderful blessing! Our "legal risk period" is officially over the end of the day on Monday (since the 5th day is on the weekend), so he will be legally ours on Tuesday. I'm still very happy with how things are going with our birthmom though, so I don't foresee any surprises. I already can't imagine life without our little guy!
So far he has been eating around every 2 hrs during the day and every 3-4 hrs at night. You would think this would give us lots of sleep, but apparently newborn babies make lots of noises when they sleep, and all these little noises keep waking the new, overprotective parents up! We've kinda worked out a system where I go to bed really early and get a few hours of sleep while Nate is still awake with Carter, and then he goes to bed for the rest of the night while I do one more feeding and then hopefully get Carter asleep and in his cradle so I can get a few more hours before morning. I actually got 8 hours of sleep last night, it was just divided up.
Carter seems really strong to me. He already moves his head around alot, and is very good at moving his arms and legs (reflexively I think). He can also roll over onto his side. He also moved himself to the side of his cradle last night. I put him in the middle of his crib, and when I woke up he had moved his head over to the edge of his crib close to me. It was really cute. He also isn't a huge fan of his pacifier, and whenever he doesn't want it, he will open his mouth and shake his head no. I think he's just trying to get it out of his mouth, but I'm going to pretend that he's telling me he "no, I don't want that!" He also LOVES riding in the car, it always makes him fall asleep. All this and he's only 4 days old!
I will do my best to post more later, though it has definitely gotten more difficult to find the time! Luckily Nate's parents are here right now so they are watching our little guy. I'll leave you with some pictures of our wonderful blessing! Our "legal risk period" is officially over the end of the day on Monday (since the 5th day is on the weekend), so he will be legally ours on Tuesday. I'm still very happy with how things are going with our birthmom though, so I don't foresee any surprises. I already can't imagine life without our little guy!
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