I am learning that with newborns there are 4 distinct things they are trying to tell you when they are crying. 1) they are tired 2) they are lonely/bored 3) they are hungry 4) they are wet.. But I think there is a 5th that you don't read abt- 5) being gassy. Babies have a harder time processing gas and when it works through their little bodies its hard on them and Eli especially makes all these littles faces.. He scrunches up and squirms and worms around until he feels better. Last night he sucked his thumb for the first time. It was really reallyyy cute. When I have a camera near and he does it again I will take a pic :)
Tis all for now- he is sleeping away!!
:)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Edit: Tired Post...
Well it turns out yes, I was tired, but really what was causing me to be extremely sleepy was the fact that my blood pressure is now LOW. So I went from medium-high blood pressure during pregnancy, then towards the end it went up a little bit, so I was high blood pressure. Then post-delivery it went SKY HIGH, so I went up to the highest meds I could take.. Now my body is starting to slowly come back to normal and all these meds are messing w/my system causing ultra low blood pressure yesterday and today. I went to the doctor and I was 98/62. Ya. When my normal bp is like 130/85ish. So I am reducing my meds slowly and we will see what happen. In addition to the bp meds giving me low bp it also gave me a nice red bumpiness thing happening on my leg.
Woohoo.
But how is my darling son you ask? Well, darling, of course :) We just went for our nightly walk around the block, I will give him his bath, then storytime in a bit, then I drop him off with one of my parents then I go to sleep!
Woohoo.
But how is my darling son you ask? Well, darling, of course :) We just went for our nightly walk around the block, I will give him his bath, then storytime in a bit, then I drop him off with one of my parents then I go to sleep!
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tired post
Well I was doing my best to keep newborn tiredness at bay but it seems I have failed. I am exhausted and just want to sleep and rest all day. They say 'sleep when the baby sleeps.' But thats nearly impossible- it really is. Then a human being can't do anything and I don't want that. So I am exhausted. Yes, this is the tired post.
Nothing really new. I do love my baby- super cute and adorable and lovely. And thats it for now. Good night.
Nothing really new. I do love my baby- super cute and adorable and lovely. And thats it for now. Good night.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Pediatrican appts & yes, a 2nd child
So we had our 2nd pediatrican appt today. He is doing well! He grew over an inch in a week and about 6 oz.. He lost about a lb post birth which is normal, so now we are working him back up to his birth weight. He eats about 2 1/2-3oz of formula every 2-3hrs. And he is doing very well. :) He does have a fractured calvacle (sp?) from coming out of the birth canal so quickly- but the ped. said that alot of babies have that and it just have to heal naturaly.
Okie, so I am going to declare it now. I see myself having or starting to try for a 2nd child by summer of '10. I have always a minimum (perhaps a maximum) of 2 and I wanted to have all my kids by 32. Since I will be turning 31 that fall its a good time to start trying. Having said this and it be completely overwhelming as I just had my first child there are certain steps I have to take now to be ready by then.. as this child was def. a multi year project :)
First I have to get rid of all the baby weight I gained with this child.
Second I have to be physically able and ready to handle both a toddler and a pregnancy/newborn.
Third I must get rid of the high blood pressure I got during the pregnancy and get off all meds associated with it.
Fourth I must be fiscally sound before starting such a venture considering I am now talking about having 2 children at camp at the same time, at preschool at the same time, etc.
I am sure as time goes on I will be adding more to this list, but starting today really I will be working on the first and second thing. I am restarting my walking and will work on toning/shaping my body to a pre-pregnancy look. So I really have to think more about it and have to get myself in a place where I can start planning again while at the same time soaking in every single moment of this baby now.
Tis it for now!
~Rachel & Eli, 11 days old :)
Okie, so I am going to declare it now. I see myself having or starting to try for a 2nd child by summer of '10. I have always a minimum (perhaps a maximum) of 2 and I wanted to have all my kids by 32. Since I will be turning 31 that fall its a good time to start trying. Having said this and it be completely overwhelming as I just had my first child there are certain steps I have to take now to be ready by then.. as this child was def. a multi year project :)
First I have to get rid of all the baby weight I gained with this child.
Second I have to be physically able and ready to handle both a toddler and a pregnancy/newborn.
Third I must get rid of the high blood pressure I got during the pregnancy and get off all meds associated with it.
Fourth I must be fiscally sound before starting such a venture considering I am now talking about having 2 children at camp at the same time, at preschool at the same time, etc.
I am sure as time goes on I will be adding more to this list, but starting today really I will be working on the first and second thing. I am restarting my walking and will work on toning/shaping my body to a pre-pregnancy look. So I really have to think more about it and have to get myself in a place where I can start planning again while at the same time soaking in every single moment of this baby now.
Tis it for now!
~Rachel & Eli, 11 days old :)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Bris
I might have to make this quick and all future blog writing quick until Eli gets a scheduled nap thing going. As a newborn he sleeps up to 20 hrs/day- I just never know when! But he's been asleep for the last 2 hrs or so, so I know he will need a bottle soon. He is 9 days old today- which means he had his bris yesterday. It was really cool. I have to say I think it was quite a proud moment for me!! My son- my SON! had his bris and he did beautifully. It went off w/out a hitch. We ended up using the same mohel that my cousin used and of course my dad lead the ceremony.
We had abt 85 people at the synagogue and it was nice. We had family in from South Florida and it was all because my son was born. Its a nice post birth- Jewish ritual experience. :) I got all dolled up and got him comfy for his experience and we did it. Alright he is waking up now.. so I will write more later.. but cute pic huh? Its from our 4:30am feedings!
We had abt 85 people at the synagogue and it was nice. We had family in from South Florida and it was all because my son was born. Its a nice post birth- Jewish ritual experience. :) I got all dolled up and got him comfy for his experience and we did it. Alright he is waking up now.. so I will write more later.. but cute pic huh? Its from our 4:30am feedings!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Birth and Baby
Hello all- As most of you know I had my beautiful baby boy on Monday morning, June 9th at 8:20am.. And hereinlies my birth story for all to see and hear about. The baby is sleeping at this very moment but I will type as fast as I can or I will come back later.
My body had been preparing for labor for several days prior. I could feel weird things in my legs as the days progressed. I had been drinking my red raspberry leaf tea very vigorously and walking every night. I had slowly increased my walking and length the days beforehand. On Sunday night we decided to check out this famous restaurant that almost guarantees a womyn that she will go into labor. So of course no one in the family really believed it but we all thought it would be cute to try. So we go on in Sunday night and order the eggplant parmisan. There is something about the way they do their marinara sauce w/the basil and the oregano....
So after dinner, we get home. Dad leaves to do Shauvot services, I walk around the block and am feeling not much just extreme heaviness in my lower abdomen area. I get home, go to bed around 12:30ish and wake up to my water breaking at 2:30am. Now I had read TONSSSS about how labor takes forever and you are supposed to labor at home for a while beforehand. So my water breaks and I am looking up all these things in my books about what to do next. Around 2:45 I call my ObGyns answering service and they are supposed to contact the midwife on duty and she is supposed to call me back. No one does..
I am having intense pains in my legs- one right after another. I can barely walk and decide around 3:20 that I need to call my mom and ask her for help. So my parents and sister get up, my mother has me recall the answering service and my midwife calls back almost immediately. I had the Group B Strep thing (its a strep that lives in your intestines that you need to have an antibotic for during labor- doesn't harm you at all) and you are supposed to go into the hospital w/in a few hours if you have this...
So we leave for the hospital around 4ish, and get there by 4:20-4:30ish. They already had my paperwork as I pre-registered and w/in 5mins tell me to go to a room on a floor. No wheelchair- just start walking. I get about halfway down a hall and literally have to lie on the ground I am in so much leg pain. They quickly get me a wheelchair and I am wheeled down several long hallways (how was I supposed to walk that???).
We get to my room and I send my dad/sister out and they tell my mom to wait in the waiting room while I fill out more forms. By this time my legs are killing me and I don't know whats going on. They do a quick test on me and determine that it was in fact my water that broke (my amniotic fluid). And then they start having me fill out alllll these forms and signing all this crap. I am now in this intense pain. And to top it off I had a headcold so was all stuffed up and had just taken my high blood pressure meds so I was out of it. I tell the nurse I have to call my mom and want her in there.. So they give me a phone to call her.
She comes in and helps me sign all the forms. By this time its almost 5am and they tell me I am 3 cm dilated. I automatically ask for an epidural and they say they have to give me my IV, draw my blood for the cord blood and other things and then they can give me one. By this point I am lost in whatever world I was in. My leg pains were coming quick and fast and my mom was holding my hand I was trying to breathe through them...
All I know is that w/in the hour I had an epidural. I don't remember when he came in; I barely remember the procedure- it was all a big blur.. The epidural did cause me to violently shake for a while which sucked majorly but it was better than the pain. My initial midwife came in around 7ish and she was getting off and she checks me and she says I am 8/9 cms dilated... Which means I went 5 cms in abt 2 hrs.. And she said she would stay w/me till the new midwife came on duty.. Around 7:30 the new midwife comes, and she says I am fully dilated and that I could start to push soon..
I have to say pushing and lifting ones legs are very hard when they are numb and heavy due to the epidural!!!! So I don't remember exactly when I started pushing.. Around 8ish?? But I had little boy Eli Samuel Slomovitz at 8:20am.. I had a 1 degree tear which meant I needed a stitch but I was all cleaned up and good by 8:45...
The whole labor is a bit of a blur. I remember closing my eyes at some point and it was dark outside and the next time I opened them it was light outside. All I can say is that I am glad it's over and that it went quickly!!!
From there the baby gets checked out and still had some mucus in his body (the mucus gets squeezed out during delivery but b/c delivery was so quick it hadn't all had time to work its way out). He had to be monitored a little bit for it, but thankfully all is well now.
The Womyn's Center were I delivered was really fab... The staff was SOOO nice. We had our own private rooms- we had the paper delivered to us each morning. The food was good.. It's very pretty.. It was a great overall experience and I am glad I delivered there.
I have to say I am willing to go through this again for 1 more child but after that I am done!!!! :) Phewww and thats my story! Here's a new pic of baby:
My body had been preparing for labor for several days prior. I could feel weird things in my legs as the days progressed. I had been drinking my red raspberry leaf tea very vigorously and walking every night. I had slowly increased my walking and length the days beforehand. On Sunday night we decided to check out this famous restaurant that almost guarantees a womyn that she will go into labor. So of course no one in the family really believed it but we all thought it would be cute to try. So we go on in Sunday night and order the eggplant parmisan. There is something about the way they do their marinara sauce w/the basil and the oregano....
So after dinner, we get home. Dad leaves to do Shauvot services, I walk around the block and am feeling not much just extreme heaviness in my lower abdomen area. I get home, go to bed around 12:30ish and wake up to my water breaking at 2:30am. Now I had read TONSSSS about how labor takes forever and you are supposed to labor at home for a while beforehand. So my water breaks and I am looking up all these things in my books about what to do next. Around 2:45 I call my ObGyns answering service and they are supposed to contact the midwife on duty and she is supposed to call me back. No one does..
I am having intense pains in my legs- one right after another. I can barely walk and decide around 3:20 that I need to call my mom and ask her for help. So my parents and sister get up, my mother has me recall the answering service and my midwife calls back almost immediately. I had the Group B Strep thing (its a strep that lives in your intestines that you need to have an antibotic for during labor- doesn't harm you at all) and you are supposed to go into the hospital w/in a few hours if you have this...
So we leave for the hospital around 4ish, and get there by 4:20-4:30ish. They already had my paperwork as I pre-registered and w/in 5mins tell me to go to a room on a floor. No wheelchair- just start walking. I get about halfway down a hall and literally have to lie on the ground I am in so much leg pain. They quickly get me a wheelchair and I am wheeled down several long hallways (how was I supposed to walk that???).
We get to my room and I send my dad/sister out and they tell my mom to wait in the waiting room while I fill out more forms. By this time my legs are killing me and I don't know whats going on. They do a quick test on me and determine that it was in fact my water that broke (my amniotic fluid). And then they start having me fill out alllll these forms and signing all this crap. I am now in this intense pain. And to top it off I had a headcold so was all stuffed up and had just taken my high blood pressure meds so I was out of it. I tell the nurse I have to call my mom and want her in there.. So they give me a phone to call her.
She comes in and helps me sign all the forms. By this time its almost 5am and they tell me I am 3 cm dilated. I automatically ask for an epidural and they say they have to give me my IV, draw my blood for the cord blood and other things and then they can give me one. By this point I am lost in whatever world I was in. My leg pains were coming quick and fast and my mom was holding my hand I was trying to breathe through them...
All I know is that w/in the hour I had an epidural. I don't remember when he came in; I barely remember the procedure- it was all a big blur.. The epidural did cause me to violently shake for a while which sucked majorly but it was better than the pain. My initial midwife came in around 7ish and she was getting off and she checks me and she says I am 8/9 cms dilated... Which means I went 5 cms in abt 2 hrs.. And she said she would stay w/me till the new midwife came on duty.. Around 7:30 the new midwife comes, and she says I am fully dilated and that I could start to push soon..
I have to say pushing and lifting ones legs are very hard when they are numb and heavy due to the epidural!!!! So I don't remember exactly when I started pushing.. Around 8ish?? But I had little boy Eli Samuel Slomovitz at 8:20am.. I had a 1 degree tear which meant I needed a stitch but I was all cleaned up and good by 8:45...
The whole labor is a bit of a blur. I remember closing my eyes at some point and it was dark outside and the next time I opened them it was light outside. All I can say is that I am glad it's over and that it went quickly!!!
From there the baby gets checked out and still had some mucus in his body (the mucus gets squeezed out during delivery but b/c delivery was so quick it hadn't all had time to work its way out). He had to be monitored a little bit for it, but thankfully all is well now.
The Womyn's Center were I delivered was really fab... The staff was SOOO nice. We had our own private rooms- we had the paper delivered to us each morning. The food was good.. It's very pretty.. It was a great overall experience and I am glad I delivered there.
I have to say I am willing to go through this again for 1 more child but after that I am done!!!! :) Phewww and thats my story! Here's a new pic of baby:
Friday, June 6, 2008
39 weeks and pre-labor
So I am 1-2 cms dilated and 70% effaced. Yayyy.. That means my body is starting to prepare for labor. Also I am noticing other signs of pre-labor. I don't know when my body will start full labor but I am on my way! Will let you know :)
& Happy 39 weeks!
~39w,0d
t-7 days!
& Happy 39 weeks!
~39w,0d
t-7 days!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
my first contraction
Well I believe I had my first contraction yesterday. *sigh*. I was sitting in my seat and I go to get up and it was like a lightening bolt in my body and suddenly I couldn't stand.. But I managed to hobble over to the couch and it lasted abt a minute.. And that was it. Haven't had another one since. But I've been feeling light pressure all day in my stomach and "down there."
I had another ultrasound today and the baby measured around 8 1/2 lbs :) and he was alll the way down. My guess is that he is engaged and ready to go! I am ready to go as well. I want to meet my son and start mamahood. Right now its really just a waiting game- life can't start until baby is here! I feel that perhaps I should enjoy these last couple of days- 10 to be exact. But I don't want to. I want to start the process. I want to start labor and go through it so I can get to delivery, etc.
I went to Target after my appt today and I started wandering around registering for more baby items :) I needed some in-store stuff as well as online stuff b/c it looks like my invite list to the bris is gettin' big! But, regardless, I started wandering over to the big boy section and I was like "well I can start stocking up on this and that..." And I could just hear my mother in my head "You don't need any of this stuff now, you don't have room! are you crazy???" So the little voice in my head stopped me from going crazy in the big boy department at Target- hehe..
But I did buy some Similac, some breast soothing stuff, a couple of baby boy clearance items and 2 cards- 1 for the papa for Father's day and 1 for the Mama to thank her for all the hard work she has done this pregnancy. Awwww....
:D
~38w, 4d- t-10 days!!
I had another ultrasound today and the baby measured around 8 1/2 lbs :) and he was alll the way down. My guess is that he is engaged and ready to go! I am ready to go as well. I want to meet my son and start mamahood. Right now its really just a waiting game- life can't start until baby is here! I feel that perhaps I should enjoy these last couple of days- 10 to be exact. But I don't want to. I want to start the process. I want to start labor and go through it so I can get to delivery, etc.
I went to Target after my appt today and I started wandering around registering for more baby items :) I needed some in-store stuff as well as online stuff b/c it looks like my invite list to the bris is gettin' big! But, regardless, I started wandering over to the big boy section and I was like "well I can start stocking up on this and that..." And I could just hear my mother in my head "You don't need any of this stuff now, you don't have room! are you crazy???" So the little voice in my head stopped me from going crazy in the big boy department at Target- hehe..
But I did buy some Similac, some breast soothing stuff, a couple of baby boy clearance items and 2 cards- 1 for the papa for Father's day and 1 for the Mama to thank her for all the hard work she has done this pregnancy. Awwww....
:D
~38w, 4d- t-10 days!!
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