3-4 Weeks!

Baby boy is 4 weeks old today! Things have been so busy lately I haven't had time to post. Last week was busy since it was Christmas week. Tons of shopping, wrapping, and baking to finish up before the big day. We had a great weekend celebrating with friends and family. Ollie was spoiled and had lots of snuggle time with his favorite people. It's nice that he's so relaxed. We don't mind him bouncing around for different people to hold him. I enjoyed dressing him up in his Christmas outfits  :) It's amazing that now I couldn't care less what I look like (most of the time) , as long as Ollie's cute and happy.

Our first Christmas as a family!

Daddy and Ollie snuggling Christmas morning

Ollie's "Define Naughty" onesie

There have been a lot of "frists" for Ollie this week (week 4). He's been smiling a lot and even at the right times. When we tickle him his face lights up with his cute little smile. He LOVES his bumbo and is sitting  up in it all by himself. On Wednesday he had his first bath! He didn't seem to mind it at all and was pretty relaxed. Then he peed all over me while we were toweling him off :) Fun stuff! 

It's so nice to be home with Ollie but in 4-8 short weeks I'll be back to work. My doctor finally released me to start working out. After 14 weeks of no activity, I'm sooo out of shape! I went for a nice hike this morning on a trail I used to be abe to go up and down 3 times in an hour. This morning I only made it twice - the mountain won! I was even passed by a 75 year old man who was running up the mountain! Hopefully I'll be able to walk in the morning! I'm pretty excited to be able to workout again though. I have another 35 pounds till I'm back to my pre-baby weight. I'm motivated and ready for it to be off! Not so happy everyone and their uncle will be at the gym for a few weeks. Luckily, things seem to empty out in February after the "resolutioners" dwindle away. I'll still be there spinning my Chipotle booty back to normal :)

2 Weeks Old

Baby boy is already two weeks old. This has been a long week for him ....and us. We are adjusting to lack of sleep and trying to make a schedule. Jonny is quickly loosing his OCD-ness. Ollie has managed to pee on our bedroom wall, poop on our bed and has peed on me 3 times this week. We are managing to smile and laugh through it all. On Wednesday he has a doctors appointment to be circumcised. I was not pleased at all with the doctors office! We walked in to talk to the doctor and had to stare at all the needles and scalpels for the procedure. Not to mention, we had to put him in a baby straight jacket before going to the waiting room... broke my heart. We came back in to Ollie screaming louder than I've ever heard. They didn't pick him up to comfort him or anything :( I know professionals get desensitized to the work they do and don't realize what kind of impact it has on their patients. The places I've worked at are very patient care oriented and I expect to go to the same... especially for Ollie. Needless to say, we will be having a nice chat with the doctor when he goes in for his check up.

Ollie had his newborn pictures done by our friend Meghan this week too. We didn't get to many in since it was chilly and Ollie wasn't up for posing. The one's she got so far are awesome though!

Being a mommy is one of the best things ever! Ollie is soo good and puts up with us when we're not sure what we're doing. His eyes are wide open now and he loves looking at lights. He's getting used to is diaper changes and isn't fussing as much when we change him (if we're in his time limit). He's smiling here and there now too, probably form gas but we love his smiles :)

1 week old already? Time, PLEASE slow down!

I woke up really early this morning while Ollie was still sleeping. I wasn't sure what exactly woke me up, until I looked at the clock. It was 3am on the dot! One week ago at that exact time, I got to see my baby boy for the first time. I can't believe he's already a week old! I'm sure times only going to continue to fly by.

We are really enjoying his sweet temperament and personality! He is soooo sleepy during the day and loves to keep momma up at night.... although we are getting a system down. He absolutely hates being changed (clothes and diapers). Jonny and I try to tag team him as much as possible to calm him down as quickly as we can. He is the strongest newborn I've ever seen! While burping him on my shoulder, he loves to pick up his head and look around or straight at me. I heard that mom's who worked out through their pregnancy have stronger babies, I thought my cravings for Chipotle and Moe's canceled out most of my spinning... but maybe we lucked out.

Can't wait to see what other fun things the next few weeks has to bring :)

Oliver is finally here!

What a crazy week it's been! Last Thursday Jonny and I went to my scheduled doctors appointment at 10:50 am. I brought along all of my hospital bags just incase the procedure they were doing would break my water (membrane sweep as planned). I organized my whole bag and grabbed a few last minute things.

Dr.Crum took a look at my swollen legs and my blood pressure and asked how we felt about having our baby that night. We were pretty taken back by the question, but of course we wanted him here as soon as possible! Dr.Crum called over to the hospital to see if they had rooms available that night since she was on call. My cervix wasn't dilating so she inserted a ballon catheter that would start contractions and dilate me. She told me to wear it home and that the hospital would call me in when they had a room available. On the way home I started having pretty good contractions and we turned around and headed to the hospital. On arrival they admitted me and started pitocin to help speed things up. Dr.Crum came in around 4pm and took out the ballon catheter and broke my water. The contractions started getting closer and stronger. I asked the nurse for the epidural a few times, but did't get one till 10pm. Afterwards, I was loving life! I felt sooo much better! My wonderful family came to wait out Ollie's arrival and it really helped pass the time by talking with them. An hour or so later, my blood pressure was down to a normal range but my temperature started rising. They packed my body with ice bags to get it to go down, but didn't have much luck. The temperature was also increasing Ollie's heart rate (usually around 150/due to my temperature was averaging 200). They tried a few other techniques but nothing was working to help the baby, even when my temp came down a bit. The nurse called Dr.Crum and they decided to do a C-section. I was shocked since I was already dilated to 8cm and thought things were going to be going the normal route.



They wheeled me into the operating room and gave me a stronger anesthetic. I loved my anesthesiologist! He was amazing and talked me through a lot of the surgery. Once I was prepped, they brought Jonny in and made the first cut. I felt lots of pressure but no pain at all. The only rough part was when they tugged him out. Jonny said he could see my whole mid section being lifted off the table as they muscled Ollie out. I was sooo excited once he let out his first little cry. Dr.Crum said she was amazed at how big he was and that she didn't think I would have been able to push him out.  They took him over to an incubator to check his sats and measurements. I was surprised that he wasn't crying at all after his initial squeaks. I remember asking the anesthesiologist a million times if he was okay and if that was normal. He said it was and I tried to relax while the sutured me up. I found this part to be the worst! Still no pain, but I could feel them piecing me back together and hear them using the suction. ewww!

Ollie was born at 2:58 am on December 2nd @ 8lbs 13 oz and 20 inches long! Almost a 9lb baby! They checked him over and then took him to the NICU where he had to be monitored for a while. They took me into recovery till I got some feeling back in my legs. I also had the shakes really bad wich was quicly cured with some Demerol- once again, love my anesthesiologist! They wheeled my by NICU to see Ollie before they took me to my room.  It was so hard not being able to hold or even touch him since I was in a lot of pain and laying on a gurney.

It was a long night. All the adrenaline and anxiousness made sleeping impossible. People were in and out the next day for visits. It took forever for me to go see him! The morphine made me extremely grogy to the point where I made no sense talking and feel asleep randomly. They started me on Vicodin and once I could walk to the bathroom the promised a visit. I finally got to go down to see him on my own at 3pm. the wheeled me down to the NICU and let me stay as lon as I wanted. They also decided to release him to come stay with us in our room. For the rest of our stay, the NICU nurses did random checks and antibiotic drips on him.

We are so happy our boy is here! It's the most amazing thing to look at him and know he's ours. Not to mention that he was the little guy kicking in my belly :) He's such a calm boy and we have it soooo easy compared to other people we know. The last few nights have been rough, but totally worth it when you look at his little face. We are so excited to see what the next few weeks have to bring!