We’re Home!!!

Initially we thought we wanted to go home yesterday, but the lack of poop and so-so eating after a circumcision kept us in the hospital another night. This morning, Trey tipped the scales at 6lbs 14oz so he’s only lost about 5% of his birth weight (less than 10% in the first week is expected) and his jaundice level was acceptable so we came home. It was a very surreal experience this trip home with a new baby. We felt so much more prepared as we had everything in place and didn’t have the anxiety of a premature baby that needed so much attention because every little thing would make her cold, not eat, etc.

Chloe has been getting a crash course lately on how to ‘love a baby.’ She passed her test today as she went up to Trey and gave him a hug…her version at least! Here’s a video of their first encounter! I have a feeling there will be some that aren’t as friendly as this one in the coming years.

Thanks to everyone for stopping by and offering to help! We’ll have more pictures up soon.

Lewis…Party of Four Now!

Kelly gave me a tap on the shoulder not much after 3:00am today.  Soon after, we were racing to the hospital as soon as Grandma Karen got there for Chloe.  Kelly was smiling and giggling the whole time and then the nurse told us Kelly was 7cm dilated and the bag of fluids was almost ready to pop.  She kept dilating and started pushing.  Her regular OB was not on call so she found out at about 7am that Kelly was in the hospital.  Dr Carriker called and told them to have her stop pushing because she wanted to deliver the baby.  It only took a few more pushes when Dr Carriker arrived and we became a of family four! 

He weighs 7lbs 4oz, is 18.5 inches long, and he has strawberry blonde hair.  If everything goes perfect, there is a chance we go home tomorrow although Wednesday morning is when we will likely come home.  Both, mom and Trey, are doing well. 

Trey is already a joker, he stuck his tongue out at me after his bath this morning.

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Baby Update

Well, there is now less than 10 days before Trey is here.  Kelly had her last appointment today and the plan is to hopefully admit Kelly next Monday night or Tuesday morning depending on if there are any openings for scheduled inductions open up before then.  This is all of course contingent on Trey not showing up sooner than that.  The doctor also had Kelly get another sonogram today because she was possibly going to induce her sooner since she thought Trey was so big.  He was only 7lbs 2oz though so she decided to hold off on the induction until next week. 

Knock knock…no one is home…YET!

We’ve finally got a date that we know Trey will be born by or earlier, June 22nd.  The doctor told Kelly today they will induce her if Trey isn’t born by then.  Thankfully, the furniture finally arrived to the store and was delivered this week so all the essential items are in Trey’s room now.  We have assembled all the new stuff throughout the house too so we are ready when he is.  It is so crazy to think that he will be here is less than 2 weeks.

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Last weekend was my graduation ceremony/dinner.  It was a surreal feeling to now that the end of residency is so close.  It was also very emotional as every graduating resident went in front of the audience and said a few things.  I kept telling myself that I wouldn’t break down…power of positive thinking failed because I was sobbing soon after I started talking.

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Water Bug

Yesterday the pool opened in our neighborhood and it was Chloe’s maiden voyage to any pool.  She was very anxious initially but got comfortable quickly.  The rubber ducky was her security blanket.

Kenny, Carrie, the kids, and Grandma Karen came over last night for dinner.  Chloe still is resistant to say ‘mom’ or ‘mama’ but she said ‘hi Kenny’ without any problems…many times!

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No News is Good News

Kelly had another doctor’s appointment today and she’s not changed since last week so that is great news.  It sounds like the pool of when Kelly would deliver Trey is starting to lose quite a few people.  Trey is still moving all around and keeping Kelly running to the bathroom quite frequently.  I’m really lucky to work so many good people.  I sent an email in the middle of the night to our residency coordinator letting her know that I wasn’t coming to work on Thursday and by noon I had tons of people emailing me and calling asking if we needed a babysitter for Chloe and if they could bring meals over.

Grandma Lewis was in town last weekend and we went to Deanna Rose Petting Farm in Overland Park.  It was our first time there and Chloe absolutely loved it!  Her favorite were the chickens and goats.  We fed them solid food and Chloe got very close to them.  When Kelly went to feed the goats from a bottle, it was a free for all amongst the goats.  Chloe had no problem pointing at all the animals and yelling ‘NO!’ at them except for the one time she probably needed to do it.  A goat started to chew on her skirt while Kelly was feeding the goat a bottle!  My favorite part was putting her on the Allis-Chalmers tractor that was very similar to the one I had growing up that is still packed away in my parents’ attic.  It was a blast and we will definitely go back.

Another new toy for Chloe is a bubble set.  She chased bubbles all over the deck.

I attached some pictures of the petting farm and some of the wedding from the week before.

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Close call

Last weekend was more than just a little busy with tons of family in town for a wedding and graduations.  Things for Chloe were so far from a schedule, but she did well.  It made us realize even more that she is best with her normal schedule, but she is ok when things get off…and they got WAY off on Friday night.  The little cake devouring party animal didn’t go to sleep until 10:45 that night!

Last weekend wasn’t the biggest excitement we had in the last few days though.  Kelly went to the OB on Monday and she was 1cm dilated with her cervix 80%.  Cervices get thinner at the end of pregnancy and the fancy way of saying that is ‘effacement.’  She was exactly 35 weeks pregnant then.  Late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, I woke up to Kelly poking me at 1:15am telling me she felt a weird pain in her abdomen.  You have to remember that with Chloe, Kelly woke up with her water broke, large contractions, and she was 5cm dilated when we got to the hospital so there isn’t much reference for her or me as to what her beginning stages of labor are.  We ended up at the hospital after she talked to the OB on-call.  She wasn’t dilated any further but she definitely was having contractions on the monitor.  Luckily, the contractions slowed down and stopped so they sent us home.  Kelly’s been fine since.  I called in Thursday though for fear something might happen.

At this rate, the next blog update might include pictures of Trey!