1 week old

Charlie is one week old today! Kinda hard to remember all of this past week. It has been a blur! So far he mostly just eats and sleeps and eats and eats some more!! His big brother likes him most of the time!! Luke really has done amazingly well adjusting to life with a new baby around. He has had some issues with sleeping and sometimes breaks down if you can't help him with something right away. But these are all things that we expected after him being the only one for two and a half years. He does love to hold Charlie. And if we are ever out of the room and walk in, he will just be staring at him in the bassinet. He isn't crazy about me breastfeeding him. He always says "he is mine, he wants me" and tries to pull his shirt up and feed him when I am trying to feed him. But we are working on that.

Everyone has helped out cooking and cleaning and taking care of Luke since my blood pressure is still not doing what is should be. When we went for Charlie's outpatient check up two days after we were released from the hospital, my blood pressure was really up, so they sent me to labor and delivery to be monitored and they were able to get it down. All of my blood work was elevated, but not enough that they wanted to keep me. My doctor is out of town right now, but the doctor on call said i really still needed to be on bed rest until my BP comes down. I am hoping to talk to my doctor later this week when he is back in town and see what we can do. I have been SO thankful for all the amazing people in my life during my time on bedrest and this past week. Lee has been amazing! He has been doing all the dishes and laundry and taking care of luke as well as helping me with Charlie and doing some of the cooking. All the grandparents have been huge helps as well. Luke has spent lots of time with Dee and Pop and also with Nana and Poppy and has really enjoyed all the attention.

Charlie had a little jaundice when we left the hospital and when we went for his follow up visit, it had gone up a little bit, so we had to go back today and his jaundice was down enough that we don't have to go see anymore doctors until his 2 week check up with the pediatrician next week. After his birthweight of 7lb 8oz, when we left the hospital, he was 7 lb 4 oz. At our first outpatient visit, he was 7lb 2 oz and today he was back up to 7 lb 6 oz. So all of his eating is paying off. Sorry for all the rambling, this is mostly so i will remember all the details myself! 

Here are some pictures from this past week! (you can click on the collage to make it bigger)

Comments

[MK]

congrats! he is adorable and luke looks so proud!!!! hope you get to feeling better soon... i know that has to be tough!!!