13th Percentile and Captain Crabby Pants

Liam had his 2 week check-up today, and he is now 7.4 lbs, which is in the 13th percentile. Little peanut!! He is starting to be a little more alert and awake, which unfortunately for us means he's more fussy throughout the day. My co-worker gave him these pants with the crab on the butt, which I love, so we have started calling him Captain Crabby Pants!

Here are some other Liam pics!

Happy Memorial Day

Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend. We have had by the far the best weather of any Memorial weekend I can remember. We have had visitors pretty much constantly since we got home late Friday afternoon. At first it was great to have extra hands around to help, etc, but by yesterday afternoon, I was starting to lose it when more people showed up.  I had to escape and get a pedicure, where, by the way, the nail tech asked me how far along I was!  DUDE.  Not cool.  Not cool at all.  I have included a picture of me from today. Yes, unfortunately I still look rather pregnant.  I have lost 18 lbs so far though!

I have been feeling fairly decent; the soreness from the stitches seems to be getting a little better each day, so that is good.  Still bleeding, but I guess you'll have that. I think the majority of my discomfort now is from my pretty wicked hemorrhoids. There doesn't seem to be any good way to get them to go away quickly.    Hot baths alternating with ice and lots of Prep. H seems to be the best route!

Liam has been a very calm good baby thus far, although tonight he has been very fussy. Of course this is the first night no one is here with us, so he is testing us I think!  My mom was a huge, huge, help, and we feel pretty helpless without her! We shall see how the night goes tonight. We have been getting semi-decent sleep so far, but it has involved me sleeping with him on the couch for a portion of each night.  For some reason that seems like less of a risky habit to get into than having him in bed with us for some reason.  He likes his pacifier at night, but when it falls out, he starts wailing.  Hopefully we can start to get a routine down a bit!

He was sleeping peacefully in his crib today.

The Belly today!

Introducing Liam

Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone. We are doing well, although a certain bruised and battered part of my body vehemently disagrees! 

I will share more of the birth story at a later date, but I went to work yesterday somewhat sure I was having contractions, but I was thinking they would stop.  They didn't. They got worse, my co-workers timed them for me, and they told me to get my butt to the hospital.  I was only 1 cm dilated when I got here, so they were thinking they may send me home after monitoring me for 1.5 hours. During that time I was hanging out by myself in triage, in MAJOR pain. I was thinking, if this isn't labor, and they are going to send me home, then I am a major sissy!  When they rechecked me, I was at 3.5 cm already!  Definitely labor.  I was soon at 6, and man, it was rough.  I got the epidural around 7 cm, which was about 3:30 yesterday I believe.   I didn't start pushing until 9:30 last night, mainly b/c we were waiting for the doc to get done with someone else!  2.5 hours and a grade 3 tear later, Liam entered the world.  I must say, vaginal births are just barbaric!  There is no way around it!  Not sure I've ever been so exhausted in my life, and I didn't get much sleep last night despite sending him to the nursery.   We are going home from the hospital tomorrow sometime.

I am going to ice my bruised lady bits now!