Life with Baby

Life was very tiring and hard after about 3 days from coming out of the hospital because of the stress from Breastfeeding and just caring for a baby. The first 3 days were pretty easy because he slept alot but after those 3 days he started crying alot and having gas problems. I really forgot how hard it is and I had a hard time adjusting to our new life, I was making it harder on myself by holding him constantly and jumping for every movement or noise he made. Naty did tell me that I didn't have to jump for every noise or haul him all around the house with me so I started to back off and take it easy and my life has gotten so much easier.

In addition, I had my wonderful mother in law here helping me with the household duties and the older kids. She was cooking and cleaning and giving the older kids attention that they needed. I'm so thankful for her and her kindness, she's amazing!

As for breastfeeding, I started wondering if my medication was messing up the baby's stomach cause he was super fussy so we decided to switch to formula, I was upset but once I gave him the formula he was fine. Well I wasn't satisfied with stopping so after feeding him only formula for a couple of days I went back to breastfeeding and he's fine now. I actually do both formula and breastfeed. I'm hoping to get an electrical pump so that I can see how much he's eating cause he never seems satisfied after nursing so I usually give him 1-2oz. after. Right now I manually pump here and there and add it to his bottle of formula or I put him directly on the breast and he's thriving!

Going HOME!

We got to leave on Day 4 (Aug. 6th) from the hospital since my bleeding slowed down, I felt great with the transfusion and Naty took another day off work and I love him for that! I was still having lots of pain but did NOT want to mention that to anyone cause I wanted OUT! Naty and I were so antsy to leave that we started taking stuff to the car and cleaning our room. We were just waiting for Dr. Tsai to come in and give me the OK to leave and he wasn't coming so I jumped in the shower really fast, when I was getting out of the shower I heard his voice in the room so I ran out of the shower and didn't even dry myself cause I didn't want to wait again for him, LOL! He checked me and gave me the boot! woooooooo hoooooo! so I continued getting ready and waited, and waited, and waited some more and finally called the nurse to see what was taking them! They said we had to wait for the nurse practioner to come check the baby, dammit! So once she came in she said Nathaniel's murmur had gone away and he was PERFECT! So again we waited and waited for our discharge and my nurse came in and helped me put a band around my belly and it felt so good, I felt alot more stable and able to walk a lot better. Then it was time to go!! One of the nurses came and wheeled me away, I can't think of his name right now but he was the nicest man ever! He helped alot during my stay and would bring me juice and water and even changed my bed, lol, he was amazing, here he is:

Naty packed us in the car and we were on our merry way home:


We got home and the kids and in laws were waiting for us outside, the kids were so excited to see the baby, Audrey was even trying to get his carseat out of the car, lol. I had to yell at the poor guy a couple of times but I understood that she was just excited to have her little brother home.