Today we created your first blog account, hopefully blogging is still a thing in 18 years which is when I plan on giving you the login info.
We, being your mom and me, plan to use this account as sort of an online journal about your life. As I said before when you are 18, I will give you the credentials and you will be able to read about your life from age 5 weeks to 18 years old.
I don’t know if I’ll make daily entries, because let’s be honest you aren’t dong a whole lot right now. Eat, poop, sleep and repeat. You are starting to smile more and more which is awesome!
You are 6 weeks tomorrow, 11 lbs, 22 inches long and very strong. That’s one thing I can’t get over is how strong you are. You’re like an ant. You may be little but you have some force!
I guess I should tell you how you came into this world.
It’s 3:45am on April 20, 2015. Your mom and I are getting up to head to Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. I barely slept the night before because I was too anxious to meet you. Your mom decided to induce at 40 weeks and 1 day, she had had enough and wanted you out. I wanted to wait until you naturally came, but you will see that we both got what we wanted. Anyway, we left the house around 4:30 and arrived at the hospital around 5:00am. Mom was all hooked up with IV’s and they started the Pitocin around 6:00am. At 6:20am her water broke, you were on your way. The Pitocin had nothing to do with her water breaking, it just happened to break when we were already in the hospital.
The contractions started what seemed to be right away, but they didn’t seem to effect your mom all that much. The nurses told us that in order to speed up the labor process, your mom and I had to walk around the labor and delivery floor. We would take some laps around the floor, but it didn’t seem to work.
Around 9am Tina Pearson, the midwife that delivered you, came in and checked up on your Mom. She informed us that her water wasn’t fully broken, so she broke the amniotic sac which in return would REALLY speed the laboring process up. Those details I will leave out, just know that it was quick and now you were really on your way.
Now the contractions really started and it was no picnic. Your mom doesn’t deal with pain all that well, and an hour barely went by before she was asking for the epidural by 10am. Mom’s IV in her hand blew out and caused a knot of fluid under her skin. The nurse had to change hands before they could give her the epidural.The whole epidural process took about 30 minutes and involved sticking a 6 inch needle into your mom’s spinal cord. It was pretty disturbing.
With the pain under control it was now a waiting game. We watched Finding Nemo, (Your mother slept through the contractions at this point.) I got something to eat, and that’s how it went for the next 3 hours.
Around 2pm it was time to start pushing. Right before the show started your mom asked one of the nurses about how long it usually takes. She said that it normally takes 1-3 hours, but since this was our first that it would more than likely take 3 hours… 26 minutes later you were born. Your mom pushed 9 times (a total of 15 minutes) and you were out, and you were ugly. You were blue and covered in this white greasy stuff (vernix caseosa).
It was such a strange feeling seeing you laying on your mom’s chest. I couldn’t believe you were ours. In a matter of seconds we were no longer kids, we were adults. We were now responsible for another life.
*So… Your mom and dad procrastinate. I started this email almost two months ago and I’m just now finishing it. I was trying to be as detailed as possible. I’ll continue*
We moved from the very nice delivery room to a bare-bones room where we would stay for an additional 2 days, or 3 I can’t recall. All the days ran together since you didn’t really sleep at night, not to mention we were new parents so we wouldn’t have slept much anyway.
When we went to take you home we didn’t know how to put you in the car seat. Your mom and I were sitting there with you looking at how-to videos on Youtube, trying to figure out how to loosen the straps on your carseat.
Once home it was just learning things as we went. Your mom was/is amazing so she knew already what to do. Whatever she had questions on she would ask her friends or your Nana and Grandma.
Those first few weeks weren’t as bad as I thought they would be. You were an amazing baby. You slept in 2 hour stints during the night, which really wasn’t that bad. I will admit I did get frustrated with you. Your mom told me one night I was getting fed up with you not going back to sleep after a feeding. She said I started rocking really hard in the rocking chair. I was rocking so hard that the rocking chair was scooting across the room. The more frustrated I became with you the less tired you would become, so I quickly learned to be patient with you.
I could ramble on and on, but those first couple months were pretty basic. If you cried it was one of three things: 1. Dirty diaper. 2. Hungry. 3. Tired.
This last month has been the coolest so far. You are starting to get a personality. It is easy to make you smile now, and you are starting to laugh at the stupid things we do.
We will try our best to keep the blog posts coming as you grow. Our goal is to give you the password to this account after you graduate high school.
Love you little man,
Mom & Dad 🙂