Newborn Pics! 10/31/13

 

1 Month

Cant believe Nathan is 1 month old today!! Time has gone by sooo fast. I am so excited but a little sad at the same time! It feels like I was still pregnant yesterday wishing he would hurry up and get here and now he has been here a whole month! From the time he was born he has had so much personality and has matured so much faster then I think most babies! He was smiling and holding his head up at 2 weeks and at 4 weeks already holding his own bottle (well for a minute at a time but that's a smart kid!) He is so serious like his daddy. Always has such a stern look on his face like he is concentrating on something important. He has the biggest brown eyes which were open and alert at just a few days old! We are also just starting to hear our first little "ahhs" and "coos" and its so adorable!
Nathan LOVES bath time. It relaxes him so much he sometimes sleeps through it. The only part he doesn't like is getting his lotion massage after. He is not a crier...thank goodness...The only time he cries is when he has a dirty diaper or is starving. He HATES dirty diapers. He could have 1 drop of pee in there and his world is over. I sometimes even have to stop feedings to change him because he is to uncomfortable to eat, poor baby. This just means LOTS of diapers for mommy and daddy to buy. He completely skipped newborn size diapers and went straight to size 1! such a chunky monkey! He had his first HUGE blowout the other day. It was actually more of a blowout OUTSIDE the diaper. Mommy was changing him and he let out the hugest fart which also came with projectile poop shot all over me and the bed! It was pretty funny but my poor comforter! Daddy is still getting used to the poopy diapers, probably  because hes been peed on and pooped on way more often then me =) He loves lights and movement. He is always staring at the ceiling fan and lamps. He also loves staring at the little bear mobile on his swing.
Nathan is eating like a grown up! At his 2 week appointment he was already 9 lbs 15 ounces and a little over 23 inches! (The length of a 2 1/2 month old)...Oh and he now wears 3 month clothes! He still fits into SOME of his newborn outfits but not many! The doctor estimated that at 2 weeks he was eating anywhere from 3-4 ounces! I really started struggling with nursing at about 3 weeks. He went through a growth spert and was eating every 30 min-hour! And eats for 20-30 min so that would only leave me maybe 30 min of a break in between feedings which would give me enough time to  change his diaper and sit down! It was pretty much impossible to get dressed let alone shower and eat. Around that time he also stopped taking naps. He would doze off for 10-20 min here and there sometimes. I started thinking I wasn't producing enough for him because by the end of the day I would feel like I was empty and it didn't sound like he was swallowing enough food and he would cry. We made a TOUGH decision to introduce 1 bottle of formula a night before bed to fill him up and it worked! It was such a hard and emotional decision but I think its best. Im still nursing all day and night, but he gets 1 formula bottle a day, maybe 2 depending on if we go out in public and he is hungry. All though the last 2 nights he hasn't really been taking it. He will drink a bit and then make a face like "this tastes disgusting mom what is it"...so we will have to see how that works out in the future... I also started nursing on both sides each feeding which fills him up WAY more and now he goes anywhere from 1-3 hours in between feedings so I can shower again =)
He is sleeping pretty good! A few nights ago he slept through the night for the first time! YAY! He usually goes to bed anywhere from 9:30 and 11 (last night it was midnight...ew) and will sleep about 6 hours (yay!) He is also totally his mommys kid because when he wakes up for his 9:00 feeding he 9 times out of 10 will fall back asleep till about 11 or 12..what?! yes please! He still has his nights where he wont fall asleep until 2 or will fall asleep at 10 and wake up again at 2 for a feeding but for the most part he is sleeping through! Sometimes he sleeps ALL day it seems like and sometimes he wont sleep at all. It seems like we are starting to get a night schedule down before a day one. We will see.
We pretty much have the most perfect kid =) he is a perfect mix between mommy and daddy. His smiles make me tear up and his loud morning routine of grunting and pooping makes me laugh out loud every time and his stretches and "im full" face are the cutest things ive ever seen and make me smile. I cant get over how in love with him I am and I truly believe I am the luckiest girl in the world to have the such an amazing husband and baby!

Just for fun =)
Moms proudest moment this month: a few days ago while face timing my mom with him on my lap he apparently started dosing off and I wasn't holding him tight enough and his top half slowly rolled off head first into the seat of my glider! Don't worry it was super soft and I caught him. He didn't even wake up!

Dads proudest moment: The other day he got home from work and grabbed Nathan to love on him and walked out of the room. A few minutes later he came in the kitchen after changing into his pjs and asked me "wheres the kid?"......well he left Nathan in the closet....

NATHANS BIRTH STORY

Okay so today is 7/28/14 and Nathan is 9 months old! I was going back through old posts and saw this in the drafts and realized I never finished typing it out! I am so sad =( I barely remember much from that day but my sister sure does! She was in the delivery room with me so she is going to have to help me out on this one =) Here are some pictures of the best day of my life!

 Nathan was induced on his due date 10/24/13 after all 40 weeks of pregnancy (I so did not think I would go full term) We checked into the hospital that Wednesday night the 23rd at 8:30pm and i dont remember being nervous at all! I honestly don't think I really ever was nervous until the nurse popped my feet into those stirrups and said it was time to go!They started cytotec right when we got there and the pitocin at 4:15am which at that point I was only at 2cm and 50% effaced. I didnt sleep but maybe an hour that whole night because I was just to excited. I would get so excited when they would come in to see how much I had progressed. My water broke on its own at about 7:00am and thats when it got bad! I felt really nothing up until my water broke and then it was all down hill until i got the epidural an hour and a half later. The epidural was a joke too! They made Jonathan leave the room and when they went to give it to me they DID IT WRONG and my whole body felt so weird and they had to do it all over again. Once they did it correctly it was all good again and at that point i was at 4cm and 80% effaced. By 10:30am I was 7cm and 100% effaced. They nurse said if she would have to guess I would have a baby by 1pm and she was RIGHT! They stopped the pitocin at 11am because I was already at a 9 and my contractions were way to strong. They were right on top of each other and the baby wasnt handling it very good. They put me on oxygen for a little bit and had me lay on my side and everything went back to normal. At about 12 I started to feel a ton of pressure and sure enough it was time to start pushing! I progressed so fast, my doctor didnt even have time to get there and the  nurse had to start delivering him. I pushed for an HOUR before he came. I lost a lot of blood and he had ingested miconium so at that point she said I had 1 more push and then they were going to get the vacuum. Apparently I wasn't feeling the vacuum because at exactly 1pm Nathan Edward Jordan entered the world!! I was able to hold him while they fixed me up, nurse him, and my family got to see him for about 5 minutes before they took him to the nursery. Unfortunately he had very low blood sugar and they had to keep him there for the first 2 nights =( They had him hooked up to an IV and had to bottle feed him on top of me nursing and Jonathan wasn't able to hold him until 9pm that night. Luckily we were able to see him whenever we wanted and I was able to nurse him every 2 hours so we were lucky! The first day for me was rough and I honestly dont remember much if not anything from after he was born. My epidural started to wear off when she was stitching me up (which took an HOUR) so they gave me some meds which I didn't respond well to. I kept passing out on and off and thats all I remember until that night! I am so lucky the whole family was able to hold him at the hospital but was so ready to get home and snuggle our sweet boy!