Baby Parts

Hands, feet, ears, all there. More pictures for everyone.

Headed home today! We expect to get home by 2 PM or so. Can't wait to bring Xander to his house!

Jake

Daddy Time

So far, this baby is easy. Yes, I've probably just jinxed us for the rest of our lives. Oh well. He slept for about three hours last night, then ate for a while, then slept again for four more hours. Seven hours of sleep. That's awesome.

Erin is doing really well. She did some walking around last night, and has been up and moving lots this morning. She was able to get a shower last night and again this morning, and is starting to feel pretty well. Of course, the percocet helps.

I've gotten a chance to spend lots of time with him this morning while Erin has been getting some time to take care of herself. This dad thing is great, he is so amazing. Yea, I'm smitten.

Jake

First day, First visitors

Oh Baby! Ain't he cute? While near picture perfct, a few minor improvements had to be made.... for instance, swapping out hats made him much more lively and happy.


Xander may have Dad'd rugged good looks, but Mom's circulation... check out the poor blue hands and feet! He was just a little cold and soon warmed back up.


We weren't kidding when we said that this little baby has HUGE hands and feet....

Here's our little guy with his 5 month old friend, Leah... different size kids to be sure


until you check out the feet- Xander's are BIGGER!

It has been great to have a few visitors come by. Both Jake and Erin are feeling a little cooped up being here at the hospital for so many days. We're hoping to take our little boy home on Sunday afternoon, but it's also possible they may keep us until Monday.

Happy Baby

We had two good feedings last night, and one this morning. Erin and I were able to sleep between for a few hours, which we both desperately needed. Everyone is feeling much more lively this morning. Xander is doing well, all of his tests have come back with no problems. The pediatrician will be in later this morning to give him a full review. Erin is feeling great. We expect that she will be up and walking by the end of the day today. She is already feeling a little restless to get up and out of bed.

Jake

Welcome Alexander Jackson Lewis

Alexander Jackson Lewis

Born April 2, 2009

10:14 PM

8 lbs 8.4 oz

21.5" long

Xander and mom are both doing very well. After a long labor Xander was delivered by C-section. He was "sunny side up" and has a huge head, it is really squished right now. He just wasn't coming out the normal way. Everyone, especially Xander, is tired, but he is feeding really well, as long as he can stay awake. We expect to be in the hospital till Sunday or Monday. We'd love to have visitors, just give us a call to arrange something. I'll post more tomorrow, need to get some sleep.

Jake

48 hours of labor?

Well, 2 PM has come and gone. Things are still moving very ... very slowly. Erin is on pitocin now to try to get this moving. They are increasing the dosage slowly, so we are going to be at this a lot longer. Hopefully tonight, maybe tomorrow morning. I'm tired, I can't imagine how she feels. She's sleeping now. Baby is doing great, very healthy, just not ready for the big scary world yet I guess.

Pain meds are good

9:30 AM. Life is better. Went to the hospital at about 3 AM when contractions reached incredibly painful. At about 8:30 AM we saw the doctor, who said that Erin still had a long way to go. After 5+ hours of near constant excruciating pain, with probably 5 more hours to go, it was enough. Epidural time! Erin got all drugged up at around 8:45 and was able to sleep for the first time in two nights. Much better. She is doing well now, I'd guess baby time is around 2 PM. But who knows.

Jake

Probably not today - No Joke!

Saw the doctor this afternoon. Erin is progressing well, but this is likely to take time. We are back home now. Most likely scenario is to go back to the hospitaly EARLY Thursday morning, but who knows! We'll see. I'll keep you all updated.

Jake

Progress...?

Things are still about the same as they were this morning. Erin has a scheduled doctors appt now anyway, so we are going to head to the hospital, I imagine that they will keep us. When there's news, we'll let you know.

Jake

3:30 AM

For the last 2 hours or so, I've been awake. At first I was timing my contractions in bed to be somewhere near 6 minutes apart. These feel a lot more "real" folks. While not exactly painful, they are definitely intense and very uncomfortable; I need to pause and breathe through them as I write....

So here I am, awake and moving around, eating a little cereal, sending off a few work emails with files and folders on my projects to those that will own them going forward, finishing up some power point presentations, and I have my handy-dandy contraction timer website (geek!) open in another tab. Here's a look at the results:

Start Time --------End Time -------Duration ---Frequency

4:25:20 AM -------4:26:35 AM -------1:15 -------5 m, 46 s
4:19:38 AM -------4:20:47 AM -------1:08-------5 m, 38 s
4:13:50 AM -------4:15:01 AM -------1:09 -------6 m, 03 s
4:07:43 AM -------4:08:36 AM -------0:53 -------5 m, 19 s
4:02:23 AM -------4:03:20 AM -------0:56 -------6 m, 27 s
3:55:56 AM -------3:57:15 AM -------1:18 -------6 m, 48 s
3:49:09 AM -------3:50:22 AM -------1:02 -------4 m, 44 s
3:44:15 AM -------3:44:57 AM -------0:51 -------4 m, 39 s
3:39:26 AM -------3:40:22 AM -------0:55 -------4 m, 20 s
3:35:06 AM -------3:35:52 AM -------0:45 -------3 m, 43 s
3:31:23 AM -------3:32:21 AM -------0:57 -------4 m, 11 s
3:27:12 AM -------3:28:24 AM -------1:01 -------4 m, 50 s
3:22:33 AM -------3:23:28 AM -------0:54


So what do you think, should I wake Jake up? This could keep up for awhile....is it possible there will be a *third* April Fool's Day baby in the family???