I just now have a few minutes to write something on here. Life with a newborn is amazing, and I'm probably the busiest I've ever been in my life. Little man lost some weight in the hospital so they have me nursing him every 2.5 hours during the day and every 3 hours at night. It is a full time job!!
My delivery went very smoothly and was super fast - thank you God for an answered prayer! I was only in labor for 5 hours and pushed for 30 minutes! I had heard horror stories about inductions and thankfully mine was so wonderful. I felt a few big contractions before I got my epidural and I honestly don't know how some women go through that naturally. No thank you!! My epidural was perfect as I could barely feel contractions coming on my right side which game me an advantage because I could start pushing before they hit hard. I think that's why it went so fast! I am SO thankful and feel so blessed to have had such a wonderful delivery.
Our stay in the hospital was amazing. Northside really knows what they are doing. I guess so since they deliver more babies than any other hospital in the nation! Besides the lack of sleep, it was awesome! Ben and I slept maybe 7 hours the entire time we were there. And that was 3 days! Ha! The first night after we had him we got less than an hour of sleep - that was rough! Every little sound he made we were like "is he ok?"..."is he breathing?" Ha! First time parents much?
We had a rough first week at home as sickness seemed to take over our entire family. My Mom and Dad had to go home before we came home from the hospital as my Mom began to run a fever the day before. We felt so sorry for her!! We know they wanted to be there for our homecoming. :( Since Ben's family was in town we though we would have his Mom come stay with us our first night home, but our precious nephew Walker got sick the night before with a virus and she had baby sat him all day. Everyone was surrounded by sickness! So, Ben and I were thrown to the sharks and managed to survive our first night home with our son alone. We did pretty good if I do say so myself! It was nerve-racking, but we made it. We actually slept a little, surprisingly! So, after that we thought we were home free. Well, Ben and I both ended up getting sick a few days later. We got too run down at the hospital and it never fails that I get sick if I don't get enough sleep. It was awful. We both had colds, and he had a fever so he could not be around Bennett at all. I don't think Ben touched him or got near him for two days. I had to wear a surgical mask to nurse my little guy - it was rough for a few days. I was so worried that Bennett would be sick during the first week of his life. Ugh, it was awful but we made it through that as well. Ben's Mom made us dinners and grocery shopped for us while she was here which was so helpful! My Mom came back into town the Monday after we came home from the hospital and has been here ever since, she has been a HUGE help to us! We are so thankful!!
We are all better now and I am actually used to getting up three times a night to nurse Bennett! We are doing great!! I am praying he is back to his birth weight at his doc appointment tomorrow so we can let him sleep longer at night. That will make us all very happy!! We would appreciate your prayers that he is gaining weight like crazy!
Our little guy is such a good baby. He never cries unless you're changing his diaper or is really really hungry. We are so blessed :)
Well there is my little update! Sorry it took me so long! Will update with more pictures soon.
Love to all!
Kerri
