Adam Ray - 1 week

The time goes so fast, I have no idea how we are already a week into Adam's life.  My recovery in the hospital went fairly well.  Due to the medicine in the spinal, the first 24 hours were actually really easy (way better than I remembered).  The main issue I had was a side effect of itching!  Then the pain that I remembered came back!  We got to go home Thursday about 10:30 am.  My parents were still here, so they helped with Ethan and Adam until they went home on Sunday.

The first two nights at home went well.  He was eating well and sleeping fairly well.  He didn't have too much trouble going to sleep at night.  The third night was rough, but my mom was able to help.  He is sleeping most of the day.  I had forgotten how many diapers newborns go through!

Adam's main issue in the first few days of life were his jaundice levels.  After we got out the hospital he had to go back to the breastfeeding clinic 3 times to have his levels checked.  Hopefully we are past that.  He has his dr appointment tomorrow, so we will know stats then.

1 week stats at Dr:
7 lb 13 oz (43rd percentile) - back to birth weight

Stats at breastfeeding clinic on Thurs, July 31 - 7 lb 14.7 oz

We are so in love with him and Ethan is doing a pretty good job as a big brother!  People say he looks just like Ethan, and I am starting to see it.

First bath!

Ethan at 3 years - Adam at 1 week!

Ethan was hiding behind the curtain!

Happy 3rd Birthday Ethan David!

Stats:  Not very exact stats as Ethan refused to stand on the scale, acting like a 3 year old!
37 inches - 40th percentile
29 lbs - 20th percentile
He grew 2 inches and gained 2 lbs in a year

Clothes:  2T and 3T, depending on the clothes.  He is in underwear full time except at night where he wears size 5 night time diapers.

Sleep: Ethan moved to his big boy bed right after Christmas since I was home from teaching night classes.  He did great!  He stays in his bed even though it takes him forever to fall asleep sometimes.  He also stays in bed in the morning until we come get him.  We put him down between 7:00 and 8:00 with books and he is usually awake about 6:30 am.  Sometimes he doesn't fall asleep until after 9:00 pm and I try not to get him up in the summer until after 7:00 am.  He takes a nap in his big boy bed from about 1:00-3:30ish.  At home he is a good napper and usually does fairly well at daycare. 

Eating:  Sometimes he eats great, sometimes he barely eats at all.  We try to do healthy food, but he loves dessert and carbs! 

Milestones:  So many milestones that I can't even begin to list them.  He has a huge vocabulary and an awesome memory.  He has tons of books memorized and can recite them word for word.  He has pretty good behavior most of the time, but he definitely has his moments.  Potty training went much better than I anticipated.  The hardest part was getting him to go #2 on the potty.  Now he does awesome! 

What we are looking forward to: Watching him grow in his roll as a big brother. 

What we are dreading: The attitude that comes with being 3! 

Miscellaneous: His favorite toys currently are construction worker toys, cars, and Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

Introducing Adam Ray Lake

Adam Ray Lake joined our family on Monday, July 21, 2014 at 10:17 am.  He weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 20.5 inches long.  We went in to the hospital at 8:00 am and were wheeled back into the operating room right on time.  I got my spinal at 9:59 am for a 10:00 scheduled surgery.  I thought it was pretty good to be on time!  The only issue we had in pre-op was that my veins were really small, so they were having a hard time getting an IV in.  They loaded me up with fluids and antibiotics (since I was group b strep positive) and had me drink something to neutralize the acid in my stomach - it tasted really weird.  I got to walk back to the operating room with Jed, Patty, Christine, and the Potter girls in tow.   Ethan was still at home with Granny and Grandpa.  They were planning on heading up when I went in to surgery.  The spinal didn't hurt near as much as I anticipated.  They got me all prepped and ready to go then Jed came in to the operating room.  Dr. Dickson informed everyone that Jed would be telling everyone the sex of the baby.  The anesthesiologist was really nice and told me to let him know if I started to feel nauseous.  At this point I was, so I told him so.  The intense pressure as they took the baby was not pleasant at all.  I have always had low blood pressure, but at this point my blood pressure started dropping very low.  At one point during my surgery it was as low as 60s/20s.  This of course made me get sick.  The anesthesiologist was giving me stuff to raise my blood pressure, but I ended up getting sick when they took Adam from me and again when they were stitching me back up.  Getting sick without being able to feel your abdomen is the weirdest feeling ever.  When they got the baby out Jed announced to me that we had our Adam (if baby Lake was a girl, she would have been Amy Kay).  I was so happy and feeling better at this point.  Jed got to spend quite a bit of time with Adam while I was getting stitched back up and unfortunately when he brought Adam over to me for the first time I was getting sick.  I was still so incredibly happy though!  By the end of the surgery I did get to hold Adam on my chest.  We were then wheeled to recovery where I tried to feed Adam and they tried to get my blood pressure up.  Jed went to go get Ethan to bring him back.  Ethan was interested, but not for very long.  His first reaction when he held Adam was to ask why Adam didn't talk to him or say hi.  After a little more time in recovery, my parents, Jed's mom, Christine, Potter girls, and Ethan came back to meet Adam.  Everyone was so excited.  After I could feel my legs again we were wheeled to my post partum room.  We got there around 1:00.