Wow! I'm terrible at blogging! We had a baby a month ago, and still no blog posts about him! Sorry Sawyer, I guess I just love spending my time with you and Darby more than blogging about it ;)
Lil Guy was born on March 21st at 1:32am weighing in at 9 lbs 9 oz, and was 21.5 inches long! He was such a good boy and only made me push for 17 minutes. I had been having irregular contractions for 2 days and they weren't getting closer than 5 minutes apart. Actually, the average was probably more like 8 minutes apart. But they finally let me go into triage, and it turned out my water had broken at some point (I had no idea) and I was 4cm so I was able to be admitted. I got an epidural, rested, and then started pushing around 1:15am. Quite the easy experience compared to the first time around!
Darby did great meeting her new lil bro! We had some hurdles when she came back from my parents house (potty in her pants, acting like an all around crazy person) for a few days, but she got over it quickly and we're rapidly falling into the new routine of being a fam of 4! She adores her lil brother and always asks to hold him, she knows when he needs a diaper change, tells me when he's hungry or just wants his binky ;) Im so proud of how she has adjusted! She gets to see her friends a lot (thank you everyone for all your visits!), and she has preschool twice a week, so she can feel like life is still normal and Darby-centric ;) It's been so fun to see her as a big sissy!
Sawyer left the hospital weighing 9 lbs 5 oz, then was down to 9 lbs 2 oz at his doc appt, and then a week later was up to 9 lbs 12 oz. Now that he is a month Im sure he is gaining well! He is quite the lil spitter-upper which I am SO not used to (Darby never even threw up til she was 2!!), and he is very very fussy at certain times of the day (and when I say fussy I mean he is trying to make sure I burst an eardrum soon). I might talk to the doc about acid reflux or something, to see if there is anything we can do to help him. But I do know that some babies are just more vocal than others, or just more colicy. He is having more and more quiet awake time, especially in the morning. I love seeing him look around and kick his legs, so cute! He definitely LOVES his daddy! It's too funny, it's as if he searches him out and once he finds him he doesnt look away!
He *usually* wakes up once at night, around 3-4am, and then again around 6-7am, and takes a long nap late morning. But then again, sometimes it's totally different.....so I guess we haven't fallen into a sleep routine quite yet. But Im definitely seeing improvements from the first week at least! ;)
Im learning that every baby is different. He is TOTALLY different than Darby was as a baby. At first I was so exhausted and worried I would never be able to handle two kids, and already at the 4 week mark things are getting so much better. Im so happy to have Sawyer in our lil fam and to see how he and Darby will interact as they both get older. It's also so fun to see Dave with his new lil boy. He has helped me so much these first few weeks and Im so thankful for him! Also, we have literally only had to cook about 2 times in the past 4 weeks! Our friends and family have been SO generous and we have received so many meals from people!! So wonderful (and delicious)!! We are so spoiled and I wont remember how to turn on the oven if this keeps up ;)
We are already so in love with our new lil guy, and we can't wait to see him grow!
