1 Month

Baby boy is 1 month old! I cannot believe it. Wasn't it just yesterday I gave birth to him??!!

I have to say being a mom to 2 kids really isn't all that hard yet. I didn't really know what to expect but he has really been so sweet I haven't felt stressed out at all and Makayla has adjusted really great too. It could have been the fact that I have nannied all of my motherhood life, so I have always had makayla and another kid with me and makayla had to share her time with me early on with other kids but it has been so wonderful.

The past week in a half he has started to get super fussy in the evenings. Some nights he cried for a long time 3-5 hours and some nights 2 hours. We literally try everything to make him happy and other than feeding him for hours on end that is the only thing that will make him happy. Its weird though because even though he cries a lot at night it still hasn't stressed me out to much,

He has been sleeping in his crib in his room since we brought him home from the hospital after the rsv because we had the humidifier going and our room is too big for it to really work and it has been so nice. I always liked having my babies in the bedroom with us (I don't know why) but I have to admit I like having him in his room and nursing him in the chair as opposed to my bed. I get so tired that It is hard to function in the middle of the night when I am in bed but being in his room has helped me feel a different bond with him, and knowing rob doesn't wake up cuz he is not in the room makes me feel good too. He still sleeps 3-4 hours at a time at night, eats and goes right back to sleep for 3-4 hours again switiching from his crib to the swing. I have also been able to get him to take a nap when makayla naps most days which has given me opportunities to take a nap too and that has been really nice and has helped me function and have energy.

Things he loves...
Sleeping
Eating (loves breastfeeding too much where he wants me to be his pacifier)
Pooping
The sling (I carry him in it everyday when going to the park and he feels like he is in my belly all over again
His bouncy seat
Baths (we take one every night together)
His mommy, daddy and sissy

Things he's still getting used to...
The pacifier (each day he will take it more and more)
The car seat

We still are loving every minute with him and our new family. He is such a huge blessing in our life. Oh and we love his awesome hair!! If you havent noticed he's got the best hair ever!

Poor sick Robbie!

So I know this is a little old but I wanted to post it since this is pretty much my journal. Feel free to read or not.

Robbie has been such a good little baby. Since day one he would just sleep all day and he eat so great. At night he will sleep 3-4 hours, wake up eat and go right back to sleep for another 3-4 hours. He doesn't fuss much at all.

Well Makayla had gotten pneumonia and a double ear infection right after bringing Robbie home from the hospital after he was born and everyone in our home got sick so he was bound to get sick too. He was 2 weeks old and got a stuffy nose and started getting a fever. One night he felt warm so we took his temp and it was 99.8 so that got us a little worried because he is so young, we decided to keep an eye on him. We put him to bed and when he woke up to eat at midnight he felt even warmer so we took his temp again and it was 105, we didn't want to take any chances so we took him to the children's ER. Well I took him to the ER, Robert stayed home with Makayla there was no reason to wake her up just to have her sit in the hospital and because I'm breastfeeding I went. Well right when I got there they immediately took us back and took his temperature again. By that time it had jumped to 108. They told me because he was only 2 weeks old they would have to do the "work" to make sure everything was okay and rule out anything super serious.

They first started with getting blood which consisted of them having to poke him in 3 different parts of his arm because they couldn't get any blood out. He screamed and I eventually cried and it took 45 min. I thought that was bad,

Then they went onto doing a catheter to get a urine sample and he cried

then they told me they had to do a spinal tap. I started to really freak out inside. I asked a bunch of questions because obviously I don't want my baby to get paralyzed at 2 weeks old if something went wrong and the doc reassured me he had done it thousands of times and nothing has happened to one of his patients and there was no choice in the matter he had to get it done so I sat in the room and watched him get crunched into a ball and scream his poor little lungs out.

then they had to put tubes into his nose to check for RSV and at that time when they told me it looks pretty scary, I decided I have had enough and could not watch anymore, so I left the room but could hear him crying.

Oh how all that was so traumatizing for me and my little bean. After all that it was the waiting game. Robbie fell asleep and I stayed in there just comforting him. The doc came in and told us he was RSV positive and would need to be admitted to the hospital for at least 48 hours because of his urine sample it takes that long for bacteria to grow on it if there would be any and they wanted to monitor him with the RSV and from the spinal tap. at around 5 in the morning we were able to get a room and it was a long 3 days with rob and I taking turns staying and going home with makayla. I was able to go home and take a shower and nap then going right back to the hospital.

Thank goodness he is all better now!!

We had so much support from our ward, we got meals brought to us which was a big help especially while I was in the hospital with him my hubby and daughter was able to be fed. We are so greatful to be in such a good ward!