Carter's hair is finally starting to really grow. He finally has hair on the back of his head again! And the rest of it is getting longer and thickening up. Some times it looks so red and other times more blonde.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sitting Pictures
Here are some pictures of Carter sitting. He sat without falling over for a couple of minutes while I took these pictures!
Carter's hair is finally starting to really grow. He finally has hair on the back of his head again! And the rest of it is getting longer and thickening up. Some times it looks so red and other times more blonde.
Carter's hair is finally starting to really grow. He finally has hair on the back of his head again! And the rest of it is getting longer and thickening up. Some times it looks so red and other times more blonde.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Sitting
Carter suddenly figured out how to sit on his own today. He's not perfect at it yet or anything, but it's amazing how much balance he all of a sudden has. He can sit up straight for 15 seconds or longer and then usually goes to the tripod position with his hands on the ground in front of him. He can then push back up to sitting straight up. He'll eventually fall back or to one side. He couldn't do this at all yesterday. It's just amazing to us how he just figured it out today.
We had a rainy night last night and this morning so I had another soccer game rained out. We had wanted to go hiking this weekend, but the chance of rain was too high. Maybe next weekend will be better. So we ended up painting this weekend. We painted the laundry room and started the bonus room.
We had a rainy night last night and this morning so I had another soccer game rained out. We had wanted to go hiking this weekend, but the chance of rain was too high. Maybe next weekend will be better. So we ended up painting this weekend. We painted the laundry room and started the bonus room.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Apples
Carter got to try apples today. I made them the same way I did the pears.
He ate the apples with no complaints. We haven't found a food yet that he hates.
He ate the apples with no complaints. We haven't found a food yet that he hates.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Go Canes!
We had a thunderstorm come through last night and lost power for about an hour and a half. Luckily we have internet on our cell phones so we could keep an eye on the Carolina Hurricanes game.
The power came back on for overtime so we could watch the Canes beat the Bruins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals! Actually, Brian watched while I slept, but he woke me up to see the final goal. (I'm worn out in the evenings with still getting up every night to feed Carter.)
We're amazed though that Carter slept through all the commotion when the power went off . We have 3 battery backups that started blaring. He did fine too in his pitch black room. We usually have a night light on in his room but since he slept more soundly last night when it was completely dark we're starting to rethink how light it is in his room at night.
The power came back on for overtime so we could watch the Canes beat the Bruins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals! Actually, Brian watched while I slept, but he woke me up to see the final goal. (I'm worn out in the evenings with still getting up every night to feed Carter.)
We're amazed though that Carter slept through all the commotion when the power went off . We have 3 battery backups that started blaring. He did fine too in his pitch black room. We usually have a night light on in his room but since he slept more soundly last night when it was completely dark we're starting to rethink how light it is in his room at night.
6 Months Old!
Our baby is 6 months old today!!!
Carter had his 6 month checkup and shots today. Here are his measurements:
Also, Carter "scored" 7 months on the Denver Developmental Screening Test.
The doctor we saw today wasn't concerned that Carter is still falling asleep on me after his last feeding and that we put him in his crib already asleep a lot of the time. Carter wasn't too happy when the doctor was examining but I think that it was mainly because this doctor had a deeper voice and Carter often gets scared when around a man with a deep voice.
Carter received the same vaccines as at his 2 and 4 month appointments. He had a bit of a fever tonight (100F) so we gave him some Tylenol before bed.
Carter had his 6 month checkup and shots today. Here are his measurements:
- Weight: 15 lbs, 6 oz - 16th percentile
- Height: 26 inches - 36th percentile
Also, Carter "scored" 7 months on the Denver Developmental Screening Test.
The doctor we saw today wasn't concerned that Carter is still falling asleep on me after his last feeding and that we put him in his crib already asleep a lot of the time. Carter wasn't too happy when the doctor was examining but I think that it was mainly because this doctor had a deeper voice and Carter often gets scared when around a man with a deep voice.
Carter received the same vaccines as at his 2 and 4 month appointments. He had a bit of a fever tonight (100F) so we gave him some Tylenol before bed.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
First Jog
I took Carter out in the jogging stroller this morning for the first time.
Last night Brian and I made some covers for the straps at Carter's head so that his head won't rub against the buckles. We used 30 mm thick foam and some velcro with glue on the back side. Here's a picture with one of the covers on and the other off.
The covers seem to work well. Carter's head looked fine after the run (no big red spots). We did 2.25 miles and Carter did fine the entire run. I wish we lived somewhere flat though! Hills are just that much more challenging now! We live at the highest point in our neighborhood - running away from the house isn't bad but getting back is hard.
I like the stroller though. It handled well. I'm figuring out how to turn it with the fixed front wheel. If you want to go right, you push down on the left side and pull back a little on the right. I'm still lifting up the front wheel a little sometimes but I think I'll get better with practice. It may also be easier when Carter is heavier.
Last night Brian and I made some covers for the straps at Carter's head so that his head won't rub against the buckles. We used 30 mm thick foam and some velcro with glue on the back side. Here's a picture with one of the covers on and the other off.
The covers seem to work well. Carter's head looked fine after the run (no big red spots). We did 2.25 miles and Carter did fine the entire run. I wish we lived somewhere flat though! Hills are just that much more challenging now! We live at the highest point in our neighborhood - running away from the house isn't bad but getting back is hard.
I like the stroller though. It handled well. I'm figuring out how to turn it with the fixed front wheel. If you want to go right, you push down on the left side and pull back a little on the right. I'm still lifting up the front wheel a little sometimes but I think I'll get better with practice. It may also be easier when Carter is heavier.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Green Beans
Today's new food was green beans and Carter ate them right up. I steamed fresh green beans and then pureed them in the blender. They got surprisingly smooth without adding any water or milk.
I finally moved Carter's bathtub into the real bathtub a few weeks ago because he was splashing too much and soaking and counter, mirror, wall, and floor. He's not too big for his tub yet, but he will fit better once he can sit up on his own and not have to lay reclined in it.
This picture shows just how red Carter's hair is getting!
I finally moved Carter's bathtub into the real bathtub a few weeks ago because he was splashing too much and soaking and counter, mirror, wall, and floor. He's not too big for his tub yet, but he will fit better once he can sit up on his own and not have to lay reclined in it.
This picture shows just how red Carter's hair is getting!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Happy Mother's Day
I had a really good Mother's Day. Here are a few pictures we took in the morning. I've realized that we have very few pictures of us with Carter and decided we need to make an effort to take more.
We went to Bruegger's for lunch and then headed down to the zoo. Here's Carter ready to start checking out the animals. He made it through the bears and elephants and then passed out.
Carter finally woke up for the red pandas
After the zoo we got smoothies and then headed home to watch the Players Championship. We had a great day!
We went to Bruegger's for lunch and then headed down to the zoo. Here's Carter ready to start checking out the animals. He made it through the bears and elephants and then passed out.
Carter finally woke up for the red pandas
After the zoo we got smoothies and then headed home to watch the Players Championship. We had a great day!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Carter's Birth Story
Since it's Mother's Day, I figured it's about time for me to finish up Carter's birth story and share with everyone by experience of becoming a mother. So, here it is! Finally!
On Friday, November 14th, 2008, I started having contractions around 7 am while I was still at home getting ready to go to work. I had decided that it was going to be my last day at the office because I didn’t want to work past my due date and I thought I should finally take some time off before Carter was born. So I went to work as normal since I only had one contraction at home and I had been having some random ones in the past couple of weeks. However, I had more and more contractions as the day went on. In the morning, I’d have some that were 5 minutes apart and others that were 20 minutes apart. There wasn’t much of a pattern. I knew these contractions were stronger than the Braxton Hicks contractions I’d been having for awhile, but I wasn’t sure if they were anything other than false labor because they didn’t hurt too much. I was thinking of heading home early but my office decided to have a lunch for me and so I felt I had to stick around for it. I only had a couple of contractions during the lunch, but afterwards, they became more regular and were about five minutes apart. I needed to finish up a few things to hand off to a co-worker before I could leave, but I kept wasting time looking up false labor online and trying to figure out what was going on. I finally finished my work and headed home with our dog, Charlotte, who had come to work with me around 4 pm. For the past hour my contractions had been getting stronger and I was starting to think they were real. It was getting more difficult to hold a conversation while I was having a contraction. They got significantly stronger as I was driving home and were about four minutes apart. It was pretty difficult to drive while I was having one, but I’m stubborn and knew I could make it home.
Brian got home shortly after I did. I had a couple more contractions at home that were strong. We were about to start timing them when my water broke around 4:50 pm. Brian called my doctor’s office which was already closed and got to talk to the answering service after listening to a really long recording. The nurse he talked to was at another hospital and told us we should go to our hospital (as we were already planning on doing). Brian took Charlotte out and I got in the car which was already packed with our bags and the car seat. We had to drive in rush hour traffic and wait through multiple stop lights as my contractions got to three minutes apart and really started to hurt.
When we got to the hospital, they weren’t expecting us even though we had called and someone was supposed to let them know we were on our way. I was set up in a room right away when we told the nurses that my water had already broken and that my contractions were three minutes apart. I changed into a gown and a nurse tested me with something like litmus paper for amniotic fluid to confirm my water really had broken, which it had. I was put on a fetal monitor and the nurse checked my cervix. At this point, I was dilated 4 cm and 80% effaced. My contractions were really strong, much worse than I had expected. They had been manageable until my water had broken. Now they were around two to three minutes apart and lasting about 90 seconds.
A nurse had to put all my information into the computer in the room because they didn’t have my chart (even though my doctor’s office is in the hospital). Luckily Brian was able to answer most of their questions since I was in too much pain. I met the doctor who was on call for the evening – Dr. Bullen. I was a little disappointed that my doctor wasn’t going to be doing the delivery since she claimed to do the delivery for 99% of her patients, but since there wasn’t anything I could do about it, I didn’t let it bother me. An EMT also observed for awhile because he was trying to prepare for the possibility of having to do a home delivery. He didn’t stay until I delivered since it was several hours until Carter was born. The nurses also switched at 7 pm. The night nurse that came on duty was the one that taught the breast feeding class I had taken. She ended up being the one to help deliver Carter.
A nurse started my IV and started pushing fluids. I had to get in an entire bag to make sure I was hydrated before I could get an epidural. That was a really long 30 minutes. A nurse anesthetist put in the epidural around 7 pm. The procedure didn’t hurt at all compared to the contractions I was having. The numbing shots hurt a little, but with them, I barely felt the catheter being put in. The hardest part was sitting sideways on the bed through the contractions and staying still enough while the catheter was being put in during a contraction.
The epidural really started kicking in about 30 minutes later. I was told I could give myself a booster shot of medicine if I thought I needed it and I did this twice early on. I felt so much better after this. I couldn’t even feel when I was having contractions. But I was shaking for about an hour. I was shivering but wasn’t cold. The nurses didn’t seem to be concerned though. I ended up completely numb from midway down my abdomen to my feet. Brian was able to leave at this point for a few minutes to grab himself some dinner. I was starving and only got to have ice chips. I didn’t have much for lunch because my company got Pizza Hut for lunch since it was my last day and I didn’t eat much. Brian also finally got to call our parents to let them know what was going on and to call a friend to ask him to let Charlotte out one more time for the night.
Brian and I somewhat watched TV as we waited for me to progress. The nurse kept coming in to move me from one side to the other because Carter kept either playing with the cord or crushing it and his heart rate kept dropping. Eventually the nurse put an oxygen mask on me to help make sure Carter was getting enough oxygen.
Time passed really quickly. I may have dozed off a couple of times. I kept progressing well. I was usually at least one more centimeter dilated every time the nurse or doctor checked me. Around 11:30 pm the nurse had me move from my right side to my left. This hurt. It was like Carter didn’t want to fall to the left and was hung up causing a lot of pressure. I now could feel when I was having a contraction, though they weren’t as bad as they were before the epidural.
Just before midnight, the nurse checked me and determined that I was fully dilated. She got some stuff ready and then I started pushing just after 12 am. Pushing didn’t hurt. The pressure in my belly stopped after a few pushes. I was still able to tell when a contraction started, but it wasn’t painful.
Brian and the nurse helped me push. Each one helped hold one of my legs and the nurse counted. Brian did really well and was able to watch everything. The nurse called the doctor in after about 20 minutes of pushing when Carter started to crown. The doctor did an episiotomy because he said I was going to tear if he didn’t. I continued to push and still didn’t feel anything as Carter was delivered at 12:38 am on Saturday, November 15th, 2008. He was one day early. He weighed 7 lbs, 5 oz and was 20.25 inches long.
The doctor put Carter on my chest immediately for about 30 seconds. Carter wasn’t crying, but making some noise, and was a little purple. They started to pick him up to take him across the room to warm him up and check him out but realized then that they’d forgotten to cut the cord. Brian was the only one with free hands at this point so he got to cut the cord whether he wanted to or not. Once across the room, Carter started letting out a few short cries as they did the Apgar test.
I delivered the placenta really easily and quickly. The doctor stitched up the episiotomy cut. It seemed like he was doing this forever so I started wondered just how big the cut was. After they checked Carter and took all his measurements, Brian and I got to hold him for a little bit.
I tried breastfeeding him too but we weren’t terribly successful. After a little while they took Carter to the nursery to give him a real bath. When they did this, the nurses got together some food for me to eat - a sandwich, fruit, and chocolate cake. It was the best food ever!
After I had eaten, the nurses brought Carter back in the room. We had him stay in the room with us as much as possible instead of having him in the nursery. We all tried to sleep a little then. There was a couch in the room for Brian to sleep on that wasn’t great but better than a chair. My bed also wasn’t very comfortable. Even when we were first put in the room, the nurse mentioned that people always complain about that specific bed, but at the time, I didn’t care. I continued to try breastfeeding every couple of hours but it was very frustrating. The nurses tried to help but when we weren’t very successful they just said to try again later.
Carter was born very early Saturday morning. Since insurance will cover staying two nights after the baby is born, we stayed through Monday afternoon to get as much help and guidance from the nurses as possible. It was interesting though how each nurse had very different and often contradicting advice.
Brian went home around 7 am Saturday morning to let Charlotte out and take a shower. After he got back, his parents arrived. Then my mom made it to Knoxville and a little later my dad did as well.
It took a really long time for my epidural to wear off. Around 9 am a couple of nurses tried to help me up because they wanted me to go to the bathroom even though I didn’t think I had to go. I thought I’d be able to stand but was very wrong and the nurses luckily each had one of my arms and caught me before I fell.
I was never in too much pain after the epidural finally did wear off. I was able to make it on only ibuprofen which I took regularly at the hospital and only took a few times once at home. My abdomen was where most of my pain was – I felt like I had terrible cramps.
Like most newborns, Carter slept a lot. He was a quiet baby and didn’t cry much while we were in the hospital – that changed eventually! He had a little bit of jaundice and looked very tan. Otherwise, the pediatrician told us he looked very healthy. Everyone was impressed with the shape of Carter’s head. Most people thought I must have had a c-section because he didn’t have a cone-shaped head at all.
I didn’t nap much on Saturday even though I was exhausted. Our families were in and out all day but everyone left around dinner time for the night.
During the middle of the night the nurse took Carter out of the room for just a little bit so we could get some sleep and so she could do the photos they post on their website.
On Sunday Carter was seen again by the pediatrician and had a hearing test that the state of Tennessee requires all babies to have (and that insurance doesn’t cover). The girl administering the test was young and didn’t know what she was doing so we decided to let someone else administer it the next day instead. I finally took a shower and enjoyed the fact that I had people taking care of me.
On Monday morning my doctor did Carter’s circumcision. He’s a tough baby because he slept through the entire procedure! My doctor’s nurse practitioner checked me and told me I was good to go home. A pediatrician checked Carter one more time and approved him to be discharged. His weight had dropped to 6 lbs, 11 oz which was less than a 10% decrease so no one was too concerned. A little later Carter got his second hearing test and he passed. It took about 45 minutes I had to hold him still the entire time which was really difficult.
Brian and I packed up all our stuff and we left the hospital a little after lunch to take Carter home. I wasn’t as nervous as I had expected to be. I am glad that we stayed the extra day at the hospital because I asked lots and lots of questions and got lots of good advice.
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On Friday, November 14th, 2008, I started having contractions around 7 am while I was still at home getting ready to go to work. I had decided that it was going to be my last day at the office because I didn’t want to work past my due date and I thought I should finally take some time off before Carter was born. So I went to work as normal since I only had one contraction at home and I had been having some random ones in the past couple of weeks. However, I had more and more contractions as the day went on. In the morning, I’d have some that were 5 minutes apart and others that were 20 minutes apart. There wasn’t much of a pattern. I knew these contractions were stronger than the Braxton Hicks contractions I’d been having for awhile, but I wasn’t sure if they were anything other than false labor because they didn’t hurt too much. I was thinking of heading home early but my office decided to have a lunch for me and so I felt I had to stick around for it. I only had a couple of contractions during the lunch, but afterwards, they became more regular and were about five minutes apart. I needed to finish up a few things to hand off to a co-worker before I could leave, but I kept wasting time looking up false labor online and trying to figure out what was going on. I finally finished my work and headed home with our dog, Charlotte, who had come to work with me around 4 pm. For the past hour my contractions had been getting stronger and I was starting to think they were real. It was getting more difficult to hold a conversation while I was having a contraction. They got significantly stronger as I was driving home and were about four minutes apart. It was pretty difficult to drive while I was having one, but I’m stubborn and knew I could make it home.
Brian got home shortly after I did. I had a couple more contractions at home that were strong. We were about to start timing them when my water broke around 4:50 pm. Brian called my doctor’s office which was already closed and got to talk to the answering service after listening to a really long recording. The nurse he talked to was at another hospital and told us we should go to our hospital (as we were already planning on doing). Brian took Charlotte out and I got in the car which was already packed with our bags and the car seat. We had to drive in rush hour traffic and wait through multiple stop lights as my contractions got to three minutes apart and really started to hurt.
When we got to the hospital, they weren’t expecting us even though we had called and someone was supposed to let them know we were on our way. I was set up in a room right away when we told the nurses that my water had already broken and that my contractions were three minutes apart. I changed into a gown and a nurse tested me with something like litmus paper for amniotic fluid to confirm my water really had broken, which it had. I was put on a fetal monitor and the nurse checked my cervix. At this point, I was dilated 4 cm and 80% effaced. My contractions were really strong, much worse than I had expected. They had been manageable until my water had broken. Now they were around two to three minutes apart and lasting about 90 seconds.
A nurse had to put all my information into the computer in the room because they didn’t have my chart (even though my doctor’s office is in the hospital). Luckily Brian was able to answer most of their questions since I was in too much pain. I met the doctor who was on call for the evening – Dr. Bullen. I was a little disappointed that my doctor wasn’t going to be doing the delivery since she claimed to do the delivery for 99% of her patients, but since there wasn’t anything I could do about it, I didn’t let it bother me. An EMT also observed for awhile because he was trying to prepare for the possibility of having to do a home delivery. He didn’t stay until I delivered since it was several hours until Carter was born. The nurses also switched at 7 pm. The night nurse that came on duty was the one that taught the breast feeding class I had taken. She ended up being the one to help deliver Carter.
A nurse started my IV and started pushing fluids. I had to get in an entire bag to make sure I was hydrated before I could get an epidural. That was a really long 30 minutes. A nurse anesthetist put in the epidural around 7 pm. The procedure didn’t hurt at all compared to the contractions I was having. The numbing shots hurt a little, but with them, I barely felt the catheter being put in. The hardest part was sitting sideways on the bed through the contractions and staying still enough while the catheter was being put in during a contraction.
The epidural really started kicking in about 30 minutes later. I was told I could give myself a booster shot of medicine if I thought I needed it and I did this twice early on. I felt so much better after this. I couldn’t even feel when I was having contractions. But I was shaking for about an hour. I was shivering but wasn’t cold. The nurses didn’t seem to be concerned though. I ended up completely numb from midway down my abdomen to my feet. Brian was able to leave at this point for a few minutes to grab himself some dinner. I was starving and only got to have ice chips. I didn’t have much for lunch because my company got Pizza Hut for lunch since it was my last day and I didn’t eat much. Brian also finally got to call our parents to let them know what was going on and to call a friend to ask him to let Charlotte out one more time for the night.
Brian and I somewhat watched TV as we waited for me to progress. The nurse kept coming in to move me from one side to the other because Carter kept either playing with the cord or crushing it and his heart rate kept dropping. Eventually the nurse put an oxygen mask on me to help make sure Carter was getting enough oxygen.
Time passed really quickly. I may have dozed off a couple of times. I kept progressing well. I was usually at least one more centimeter dilated every time the nurse or doctor checked me. Around 11:30 pm the nurse had me move from my right side to my left. This hurt. It was like Carter didn’t want to fall to the left and was hung up causing a lot of pressure. I now could feel when I was having a contraction, though they weren’t as bad as they were before the epidural.
Just before midnight, the nurse checked me and determined that I was fully dilated. She got some stuff ready and then I started pushing just after 12 am. Pushing didn’t hurt. The pressure in my belly stopped after a few pushes. I was still able to tell when a contraction started, but it wasn’t painful.
Brian and the nurse helped me push. Each one helped hold one of my legs and the nurse counted. Brian did really well and was able to watch everything. The nurse called the doctor in after about 20 minutes of pushing when Carter started to crown. The doctor did an episiotomy because he said I was going to tear if he didn’t. I continued to push and still didn’t feel anything as Carter was delivered at 12:38 am on Saturday, November 15th, 2008. He was one day early. He weighed 7 lbs, 5 oz and was 20.25 inches long.
The doctor put Carter on my chest immediately for about 30 seconds. Carter wasn’t crying, but making some noise, and was a little purple. They started to pick him up to take him across the room to warm him up and check him out but realized then that they’d forgotten to cut the cord. Brian was the only one with free hands at this point so he got to cut the cord whether he wanted to or not. Once across the room, Carter started letting out a few short cries as they did the Apgar test.
I delivered the placenta really easily and quickly. The doctor stitched up the episiotomy cut. It seemed like he was doing this forever so I started wondered just how big the cut was. After they checked Carter and took all his measurements, Brian and I got to hold him for a little bit.
I tried breastfeeding him too but we weren’t terribly successful. After a little while they took Carter to the nursery to give him a real bath. When they did this, the nurses got together some food for me to eat - a sandwich, fruit, and chocolate cake. It was the best food ever!
After I had eaten, the nurses brought Carter back in the room. We had him stay in the room with us as much as possible instead of having him in the nursery. We all tried to sleep a little then. There was a couch in the room for Brian to sleep on that wasn’t great but better than a chair. My bed also wasn’t very comfortable. Even when we were first put in the room, the nurse mentioned that people always complain about that specific bed, but at the time, I didn’t care. I continued to try breastfeeding every couple of hours but it was very frustrating. The nurses tried to help but when we weren’t very successful they just said to try again later.
Carter was born very early Saturday morning. Since insurance will cover staying two nights after the baby is born, we stayed through Monday afternoon to get as much help and guidance from the nurses as possible. It was interesting though how each nurse had very different and often contradicting advice.
Brian went home around 7 am Saturday morning to let Charlotte out and take a shower. After he got back, his parents arrived. Then my mom made it to Knoxville and a little later my dad did as well.
It took a really long time for my epidural to wear off. Around 9 am a couple of nurses tried to help me up because they wanted me to go to the bathroom even though I didn’t think I had to go. I thought I’d be able to stand but was very wrong and the nurses luckily each had one of my arms and caught me before I fell.
I was never in too much pain after the epidural finally did wear off. I was able to make it on only ibuprofen which I took regularly at the hospital and only took a few times once at home. My abdomen was where most of my pain was – I felt like I had terrible cramps.
Like most newborns, Carter slept a lot. He was a quiet baby and didn’t cry much while we were in the hospital – that changed eventually! He had a little bit of jaundice and looked very tan. Otherwise, the pediatrician told us he looked very healthy. Everyone was impressed with the shape of Carter’s head. Most people thought I must have had a c-section because he didn’t have a cone-shaped head at all.
I didn’t nap much on Saturday even though I was exhausted. Our families were in and out all day but everyone left around dinner time for the night.
During the middle of the night the nurse took Carter out of the room for just a little bit so we could get some sleep and so she could do the photos they post on their website.
On Sunday Carter was seen again by the pediatrician and had a hearing test that the state of Tennessee requires all babies to have (and that insurance doesn’t cover). The girl administering the test was young and didn’t know what she was doing so we decided to let someone else administer it the next day instead. I finally took a shower and enjoyed the fact that I had people taking care of me.
On Monday morning my doctor did Carter’s circumcision. He’s a tough baby because he slept through the entire procedure! My doctor’s nurse practitioner checked me and told me I was good to go home. A pediatrician checked Carter one more time and approved him to be discharged. His weight had dropped to 6 lbs, 11 oz which was less than a 10% decrease so no one was too concerned. A little later Carter got his second hearing test and he passed. It took about 45 minutes I had to hold him still the entire time which was really difficult.
Brian and I packed up all our stuff and we left the hospital a little after lunch to take Carter home. I wasn’t as nervous as I had expected to be. I am glad that we stayed the extra day at the hospital because I asked lots and lots of questions and got lots of good advice.
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