well, little jakob riley has made his appearance into this world and boy, oh, boy was it a quick one!! he was born on october 13 at 610am, weighing in at 9lb 1oz and 22 1/4 inches long. he looks a lot like his older brother did but with chubbier cheeks and a little less hair:)
here's my attempt at his birth story. i had been having some cramping over the weekend but nothing that was regular or strong. wednesday morning (10/12) after dropping max off at MDO, which is still going fab by the way, my mom and i ran some errands. for the last hour of our errand running i was starting to feel crampy again and they were a little uncomfortable. we came home and i took shower and put my feet up and the contractions went away. i packed my hospital bag and downloaded an app to time my contractions. i callled luke and told him about the contractions and told him he might want to be ready not to back to work the next day:) i had a dr's appt that afternoon so i thought we get some good info there. at my appt, dr L said i was 3 1/2-4 cm dilated and 80% effaced so labor was probably in my near future. she said she was on-call over the weekend so it could be perfect timing:) that night i started to have some pretty regular contractions but when i started to time them they got further apart and i fell asleep so not too bad. i woke at 3am to pee and when i got back in bed i had a pretty strong contraction so i started to time....they were about 7ish minutes apart at that time. around 4am they were getting closer together so i woke up luke and we decided i should probably call the dr. dr W was on-call and she said to head on in. we packed up and gave the monitor to grandma. right after i got off the phone the contractions started getting stronger and pretty close together...thank goodness we're only 5 minutes to the hospital. we probably checked in around 5am, maybe a bit before. i got changed and the nurse checked me and said you are 9cm dilated...i was SHOCKED! i think the first thing out of my mouth was "i suppose that means no epidural" and she said yes there was no time. they turned me on my side and that made my contractions come really fast and strong. my water still hadn't broken so when dr W got there she broke my water and it was pretty much time to push. i think i pushed for about 20 minutes (the most intense 20 minutes of my life) and jakob made his appearance into the world!! i got to hold him right away and boy, did he look a lot like his big borther just chubbier:) they took him to get cleaned up and they had to do some stitching (i had a 3rd degree tear) and work on the placenta with me for a bit....let me tell you, that did not feel good:( when they weighed him and said he was a bit over 9lb, i just couldn't believe it!!!
i got my sweet baby boy back and he nursed for almost an hour before they took him to do some more testing. due to his large size, he had to have 3 blood sugars drawn...he aced every one! i was able to pee right away so i got my IV out pretty quickly so i was able to be showered and in my own PJ's by 10 am. i felt so much better than i did after i had max...i think it was just a combo of the super short labor, no meds and no first time parent anxiety. my recovery has been so much faster and it has been so nice.
max and grandma came that day after max's afternoon nap so he could meet his new little brother...jake had brought him star wars watch so that was pretty cool. max was more interested in all the fun stuff in the room at first but toward the end of the visit he wanted to hold jake and he did a great job. in general, max has been great with jake...he brings him his pacifier and wants to share his toys with him. he likes to pet his head occasionally, its so sweet.
we got to come home friday evening. we just had to go back to the pedi in the AM so we could do a weight check. that day jake went about 13ish hours without peeing so we called the dr and had to start supplementing. feeding jake has gone just about the same as with max so as i am still breastfeeding, i just don't seem to make very much milk so we are supplementing with formula and will continue to do so. jake eats like a champ and has been sleeping really well the past couple of days so we're all doing really well around these parts.
on sunday, i had to make a quick trip to the ER for a doppler study to make sure i didn't have a blood clot in my left leg. turns out i do have a superficial clot but not deep so we just have to monitor the symptoms and make sure they don't get worse...that was no fun for anyone but its done and we're glad it was nothing serious.
i leave you with what jake does most of the day:)
