Baby Details

I went in for an appointment last Monday to check the usual as well as my fluid level. Unfortunately my fluid was dropping to dangerously low as were my insulin requirements. For a diabetic those are both bad things that mean the placenta is giving up. It doesn't matter that I took excellent care of myself, it's just the nature of the blood vessels in the placenta of a diabetic. It would have failed much faster if I hadn't kept tight control of my blood sugar. But, I was less than a week away from my due date so I did more than ok! Anyway, we scheduled a c-section for 7:30 the next morning (Tuesday the 20th) which meant we had to be at the hospital at 5:30, which meant I had to wake up and shower at 4 and make sure all my stuff was packed.

We ended up not getting to sleep Monday night until midnight between all the stuff we had to prepare and the food shopping we had to do for Tekara and Aviendha. After only 4 hours of sleep I was exhausted before the day even began. The c-section this time around felt like it went much smoother for me, probably because there was more preparation. The anesthesiologist lady was really nice, she took lots of pictures for me including baby being pulled out of me (I know, totally weird right?) I wish we could have had that last time but I didn't even know having a camera there was an option then. I'll post them pulling baby out if anyone is interested but otherwise it'll just be the 3 I chose for now.





This was pretty awesome because last time I didn't get to even touch Aviendha because they strapped my arms down. I think it had to do with the difference in having a spinal vs. an epidural. Anyway, this time I got to touch him and be close to him for a while before they took him down to the nursery, plus we got this groovy picture of Nick looking pretty rad in his duds. Gage Nicholas Terry was born at 7:55 am, weighing 6 lbs 13 oz, 20 inches long.






This is one super excited Aviendha to meet her new brother. The funny part is, she kept calling him Ezyas (Naomi's kid) because that is the last baby she got to hold. We've finally convinced her that it is indeed baby Gage who was in Mom's tummy this last little while. She treats him like a prince so far but the novelty will probably wear off here pretty soon. She loves to hold him and give him kisses. For some reason she's been obsessed with smelling his hair and telling us how stinky it is. She also likes to constantly tell us he's poopy even when he's not. She also had to check all the cupboards and closets in my hospital room every little while and announce to all the nurses after each one "Nope, no monsters in here!"





Here he is, 6 days old. He looks quite a bit like Aviendha did when she was first born. So far he's following the pattern Aviendha followed from the beginning which is not wanting to eat too much during the night and eating more during the day, which we are totally fine with! It would be awesome to have another one who sleeps like her but we'll see how that goes... Things have been going well other than the fact that the pain meds make me fall asleep sitting up when I think I'm perfectly awake. I'll try to update with better details and more pictures when I can think straight...