Finally an update

I know I should have updated the blog before now, but I totally forgot how much work a newborn can be!

The birth went fine, for the most part. We arrived at the hospital at 5:30am on the 28th, after just a few hours of sleep. I had a nice room, by myself, and was hooked up to the monitors as soon as we got there. The nurses had a hard time getting an IV started in my left arm, so I ended up having two IV lines, one in each arm. They wanted one bigger line, but had to settle for two smaller lines. That was not fun.

I really did feel like a human pin cushion that day, because the anesthesiologist also had trouble getting in the line for the spinal block. After about six tries, he finally got it in and laid me down. Then came the fun part-I ended up with dangerously low blood pressure and started throwing up on myself. Luckily, they were able to get my pressure back up and finally let Rob into the room. The surgery itself went incredibly fast, and at 8:19am Andrew was born and let out his first cry. Rob and the nurses took him to the nursery to clean up while they finished me off and it wasn't too long before I was in recovery and able to really see my baby for the first time. I knew immediately how lucky I was, he's such a beautiful baby!

We all learned right away that Andy really likes his food. He became known as the baby who was always at breast when the nurses came in for vitals. He latched on right away and has never had any trouble sucking down his share of milk. In fact, sometimes it feels like I have a Hoover vacuum attached to my chest instead of a baby! Sometimes we do give him some formula in the evenings, because he's pretty much sucked me dry. Luckily for me, he has no objection to both types of milk. When Kyle had to have formula, he didn't want to go back to breastmilk, because the formula is thicker and fills better. Andy just likes food, so both work for him.

I expected Andy to sleep in his pack-n-play bassinet after we came home, but it turns out he doesn't like being put down for very long. So, even though we didn't mean to, we're doing the family bed thing. Actually, because the bed frame is a bit broken, Rob has been sleeping in the living room. We'll probably take the frame apart and put the mattress on the floor and go back to sleeping together, but for now it seems to work. We're okay with Andy liking to be held, because frankly we don't want to put him down!

He's grown so much in the last two weeks. He's keeping his eyes open more often, which is great because they are a beautiful violet blue color. They'll probably change but for now they are so pretty to look at. He spent a bit of time today in his swing, which is the first time I've really been able to get him to do that. I'm sure as he gets older, putting him down in the swing or bouncer will work for longer periods of time. For now though we are just enjoying all the time we spend with our little man. We both know how fast this time is going, especially since it's been over two weeks already!