I had Sweet Pea on July 28th at 1:11 PM. He is a handsome baby boy! He weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 20 inches long. And it was an eventful day! Labor was a bit stressful. After drawing my blood they found that my hemoglobin was very low and put me at risk, there was debate over a blood transfusion but they decided to just order the blood and have it on hand if needed. Then our little guy was having issues of his own, the cord was wrapped around his neck causing his heart rate to drop really low so I had to go on oxygen. Luckily after changing positions and oxygen his heart rate increased enough to avoid a c-section. This made me very happy considering I had a one year old at home and J only had 10 days off.
After he was born we found out that the anatomy scan missed the fact that his cord only had two vessels instead of three an abnormality that only happens to about 1% of the population. This was a little worrisome because it could be an indicator of more serious problems and if they had known they would have induced a few weeks before my due date because SUA increases risk of stillborn. They wanted to keep a watch to make sure his kidneys were functioning properly.
We spent some time bonding with him and choosing a name and then we called to have Peanut come and meet her little brother. It was important to us that Peanut be the first one to welcome our little Sweet Pea into the world. After we arranged for her to come we finally started making phone calls to announce his arrival. I will never forget the first time Peanut saw him it was such a sweet moment.
After we had a few visitors Peanut and Daddy J went home. I spent some quiet time resting and cuddling with my son. He started having trouble keeping down his food. We switched to formula so they could keep better track of his input and output but he had trouble with milk based. We switched over to Good Start Soy but he couldn't tolerate that either so then we switched to Isomil. Another problem we encountered was that he wasn't making bowel movements. We ended up having to stay another day so they could monitor him, after an x-ray and seeing a specialist they decided if he didn't start having regular bms we would transfer to another hospital so he could be admitted into the NICU for more testing. Luckily we didn't have to transfer.
He liked to keep us on our toes, the next problem we encountered was he failed all of his hearing screens. So we had to wait two weeks for a hearing test. This had us pretty worried for the first couple of weeks but he passed with no problems at his test.
Peanut did pretty well with the big change. She loved all of the time she got to spend with J, it didn't seem to really sink in for her until he went back to work. The first day at home alone with the kids was great, I felt like Wonder Woman. I cleaned, did laundry, the dishes and both kids were happy.
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