A Baby and Breakfast tacos!

Our friends Christy and Jake brought us over some breakfast tacos last Sunday and got to meet our little man. They are expecting a little girl any day now!!

Alex's first bath at home!!

Alex did great with his first bath at home! He didn't cry as much as Kate, which was nice!!

The Cousins visit

On Saturday, Sept 11, Mike and I both had cousins in town! Mike's cousin Mandy was driving thur so she stopped in to meet little Alex.



Then Mike, Gram, Kate and Mandy headed out to extreme fun! Kate had a great time!




Then Saturday night, my cousin, Jennifer came to meet Alex and to cook us some dinner!

Alex's First Doctor Visit

On Friday, Sept 10, Alex had his first doctor visit. I was so excited because he went from 7 lbs 9 oz to 7 lbs 13 oz!! Go Breastmilk! But he got shorter somehow? At birth he was measured to be 21 inches and at the doctor office he was measured to be 19 1/2 inches! Not really sure what to put on his birth announcement???

Also on Friday, Alex met my dear friend Stephanie and her Mom!

Alex's first day home

On Thursday, Sept. 9 we brought our little man home with us!! Mike dressed him and we were off for home in our new mini van! We were met at home by Gram and then Alex met his two hairy sisters, Sammy and Trudy. Sammy gave Alex sweet kisses and Trudy went crazy excited and we had to lock her out of the living room until she calmed down. Mike picked Kate up from MDO and Kate gave Alex a kiss and seemed worried about him if he started to cry! My friend Becca came by to meet Alex. Then Alex got to meet his Uncle Brian for the first time. It was nice to be home!

Kate's Mother Day Out

On the day Alex was born, Kate had her first day at Mother's Day Out. She had her Meme and her Gram take her and she did great!! I was sooo sad to have missed this, I had some serious Mommy guilt!! But she seems to enjoy it so far! Mike was sad on her second day when he took her and she just told him "BYE" and didn't even look back!! When he picked her up, the teacher told Mike that she had never seen such a young kid read so many books!!

Here are pictures from her first day:

In the Hospital with Alex

Mike was with me most of Tuesday and Alex spent most of the day in the nursery, except when I was feeding him. I was really out of it most of the day and well, exhausted. I was throwing up ALOT and in pain!! Mike left that night to sleep at home and Alex stayed in the nursery, except for me to feed him. Wednesday I continued to rest and sleep and Mike came at about noon. Alex had his circumcision and did just fine. Mike and I hung out most of the day and then he went home to put Kate to bed and to relieve his Mom. I had my friends, Kelly and Lana come visit. Thursday morning, Mike took Kate to her first full day of Mothers Day Out and then came to pick us up to take us home.

Alex meeting the family and Kate

The family came by Tuesday morning to meet Alex. It was Kate, my parents, my sister and Mike's Mom.

Pictures from Alex's birth

IT's A . . . . . . .

BOY!!!

Mike and I are so proud to have our little boy, Alexander Mellon Abernethy!!!

It all started on Monday, September 6 (Labor Day) at about 9:30 in the morning when I starting leaking. I wasn't sure that was what was happening, but at around 1:30 I decided to call my doctor. Mike had just picked up his Mom from the airport, so we were lucky she was here to be with Kate since the nurse told us to go ahead into the hospital. Mike and I both thought that we might be coming right back home, but we grabbed the suitcase and off we went.

We arrived at the hospital at about 2:30 and checked into a triage room. I had a positive test for amniotic fluid and was a tight 2 cm dilated. We were then moved to L & D room 6 and my doctor was called (Dr Culter was on call). I was having irregular contractions that were about 4-5 minutes apart and I couldn't feel them. I couldn't believe that it was happening!!

By 5:00 I was still at 2 cm and had started to feel the contractions. Dr Culter was called and she said that if I hadn't progressed by 7:30 then to start Pitocin.

At 7:30 everything was the same so Pitocin was started at 8pm and I was really starting to feel the contractions! I had a big gush of fluid, which I thought was my water breaking (but it wasn't--I was just still leaking)

At 9:30 my epidural was put in. I was still at 2 cm dilated and I was feeling my contractions which were 3 minutes apart.

September 7 at 12:30 I am already 6 cm dilated.

At 1:30am I am 8 1/2 cm dilated so the nurse calls Dr Culter to come in! She also breaks my bag.

By 2:00 I am fully dilated and the nurse is telling me NOT TO PUSH! I was feeling painful contractions and wanted to PUSH!!! We were just waiting on Dr Culter.

Dr Culter arrives and I push for 3 contractions and Alex arrives at 2:16!! Mike and I are so excited to have our boy!! He had apgar scores of 8 & 9 and was 8 lbs, 1 oz and 21 inches long.

After delivering Alex, I had some problems!! I started to hemorrhage and the Dr had trouble getting out my placenta. Also, my uterus was not contracting as it should have been. This went on for about 30 minutes of the Doctor pushing on my uterus and scarping inside of my uterus. It was scary and painful. Anesthesia was called to give me more meds and the nurse gave me something to stop the bleeding. There was talk of taking me to the OR for a DNC. Thankfully, the bleeding slowed down and my uterus started to contract again. It was a long and painful 30-45 minutes!! Then I was able to breastfed Alex and then I started throwing up! What a mess. I was given an anti-nausea medication that made me feel drunk and then also a blood clotting medication.

Alex was taken to the nursery to have a bath and we moved to room 220 around 5:00am. The nurses were checking my uterus and my bleeding many times, so I was still awake. By 6am I was ready to go to sleep, but then my epidural wore off and I was in pain!!I was given oral pain meds and was impatient for them to work.

Alex had trouble warming up in the nursery before his bath and then after his bath he took a while to get his temperature back up. Finally at 8am we had him back in our room.

I had been up for over 24 hours by now and I was really exhausted. Our families and Kate came by to meet Alex. I don't think Kate really knew what to think about Alex. But she did give him a kiss!!

Most of Tuesday I tried to sleep and I was still throwing up off and on. The pain medication I was receiving was keeping my pain away (thankfully!!) Alex is great at nursing and like Kate, we had to work hard at waking him up to feed him. He stayed in the nursery most of the day so I could rest.

Wednesday I continued to rest and then Thursday we headed home.

All in all, if I hadn't had the complication after labor, it would have been a great labor experience.

Mike and I could not be happier with our little boy!