After writing a five paragraph FB post, I figured I should just start blogging again. Now that I'm on kiddo number four, I figure I may have a bit of experience to share to other moms. So this will be a parenting blog, as uncontroversial and highly relatable as I can manage. It will be real, humorous, semi educational, and if anything, entertaining.
Mainly, it will be my outlet. It will be generally unplanned rambling that is too long and/or complex for FB. Plus, since my FB account is mixed company, I know some things I may cover will make the rougher sex uncomfortable. Granted, I enjoy making men, especially my brother, squirm when regaling them of tales of nursing, mucous plugs, poop colors, and so on, I'll be respectful of their sensitive stomachs and stick that info in the blog. In order to get newbies up to speed, I'll do a quick recap of the past week. Sunday I delivered, via unplanned c-section, my fourth child, Miss Demi Rose. My smallest baby at 6 lbs 14 0z. All my previous children were delivered vaginally, so this was a huge change. She was born with the cord wrapped around her neck three times. Daddy was freaking out during the surgery, but I was fine, knowing this is all routine. The first 30 minutes of her life was spent being given oxygen and watching vitals, never in distress, she just wasn't noisy enough. I finally got to hold and nurse her, extremely awkward while laying down and people are rearranging your insides. Overall, uneventful yet successful. Her and I were both fine and healthy. We were greeted from recovery to a room full of family anxious to meet the smallest member of the family. The hospital visit was two nights, and the best experience I've had of all my babies. The nurses were awesome and considerate of the fact that this wasn't my first rodeo. The days went by quickly and we were on our way home after lunch on Tuesday. We headed home to an empty and quiet atmosphere, minus two of our older kiddos. We settled down and rearranged the living room to include a bed for me so that I wouldn't have to travel up and downstairs. Here l I have sat for the past few days, watching the new fall season premieres and late night reruns. My husband had been the ever diligent nurse and responded promptly to my requests of snacks, water, meds, etc. My mom visited the first full day home to keep me company and ended up going to town on my kitchen. It's so clean now! Kramer's dad also visited, bringing me roses and alcohol (which I'm obstaining from while taking the pain meds for the csection). Later that day, I got to see my other kiddos briefly and watch them while Kramer and my MIL went to Fred Meyer. Natalie is super excited to have a baby sister, Dante is still trying to figure it all out, but that didn't stop him from giving Demi a bunch of kisses. That evening my sister-in-law brought us dinner. Demi is perfect. Sleeps through the night, for now, but Dante always has, so I may once again get lucky. She has her first dr appt today, same pediatrician as Dante and Nat, so we know and love her already. We did our traditional baby's first outing last night, Target and Applebees. This was the first time I've ever had to buy SMALLER diapers than what we were given at the hospital. They had 1s, Miss Demi is a petite NB size. We also got some socks, a girly new Boppy cover, because she deserves something different than the elephants we had for brother, some lightweight swaddling blankets, and another pair of shoes. She clearly needed them. Mommy picked up some Halloween candy and healthy snacks to keep in the diaper bag because nursing can make you seriously hangry. I also bought a cute poncho, a seasonal wardrobe update with the bonus use as a nursing cover. Daddy carried his "Peanut" (his nickname for her) throughout the store and was frequently approached with admirers. Someone even thought she was a doll. (Because it's perfectly normal for a large, hairy man to carry around a doll...) Applebees was more of the same, oohs and ahhs from strangers, some congratulations. Kramer and I laughed at the assumption most made that she was our first, since we didn't have any other kiddos with us. Haha! No. I ordered a steak for some much needed iron and Kramer, trying to get back on his diet since taking a break while we were in the hospital, had a shrimp salad. Back at home, I was worn out but overall ok. We watched some season premieres and other TV, overall chill night. This morning I get my Buster back, Nat briefly this afternoon before she goes for a sleepover. After the dr appt this morning, I'm going to check out a soap supply sale, visit my mother and then chill for the rest of the day. I picked up the front room and felt no pain, even though meds were wearing off. Kramer is upstairs converting our bedroom into a toddler/baby room where we just happen to sleep. We will allow Dante open access to the bedroom and we've ordered a wireless camera to install so we can see what he's up to when we're not up there to supervise. This is so that we can alleviate the activity from downstairs and make it safer for a smaller baby, and hopefully keep a majority of toddler toy mess upstairs. Sounds all good in theory, I'll let you know the reality. Welp, that's enough for now. This was all done from my phone, so I hope it's formatted correctly.
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Clari
9/29/2017 10:39:35 am
Thank you Heather, love keeping in touch.
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