Well, it was a pretty decent first Father's Day for me. It started off with me waking up at 3am to feed Autumn, but it really didn't take very long. I was back in bed by 3:45am I think. Sharaze handled the rest of the morning chores so I slept in pretty much till about 11am I think. But for some reason almost all the rest of the day I was tired out of my mind!
Anyway, we all had a pretty good day by hanging out over at my mom and dad's place. Plenty of good food and everyone had fun playing and holding Autumn. She behaved herself pretty well too. She slept a pretty decent bit but as you'll see in the video below, she also was pretty darn alert which was cool.
And so for now, I'll leave you with this short but cute little video of Autumn being put on display. I've got others, but I don't think anyone wants to watch a 10 minute video of her getting a bath. But maybe I can find a to quicken it up and make something fun out of it.... We shall see!
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Where's the update?!
So I've gotten a couple of questions from folks wondering where the freakin' update is. Ok, so here's an update:Autumn is still eating, sleeping, pooping, and crying. That's it!!
Mind you she does it all very cutely. Except for the crying at 2am part. Not so cute.
And I'm still tired.... But rest assured, I've got a couple of videos to upload, hopefully sometime this weekend. And that's all for now!!
Thursday, June 7, 2007
First "close call"
Yeah, so it's 2:21am now and I just got done feeding Autumn. Well right at the end of this wonderful bonding experience (me trying to stay awake) Autumn starts to "blow it out" while I'm burping her.
Now being the good husband & father that I am, I resist the natural urge to let her just sleep in it and have the next spousal unit handle that bit of fun. Nope, I figure I'll go ahead and change her out since I'm (mostly) awake.
So down she goes onto the changing table and she's continuing to unload! I'm thinking she's dumping the whole stupid bottle I just gave her and no way am I going to stay up and hand her more. Finally a pause in her creation of gut chutney occurs and I leap into action. I get the little sticky tabs undone and start to lower the front part down in order to being wiping operations. And that's when it happened...
As I'm lowering that front part, I see her face get all scrunched up and her legs retract up to her sides as she's about to apparently eject all the contents of everything she's ever eaten. It was pretty darn quick, but I was quicker. I snap that diaper back up around her front and hold it up against what felt like a firehose of poo shooting out her behind. In a second or two it was all over.
I looked around to see if I had missed something or if things had been deflected onto the walls or carpet, but everything was cool. I stared at her to see if there were any further death star explosions on their way, but she was laying there as if she had just stepped down from heaven and all was right with the world.
And so now my little girl is (fussily) sleeping in a (temporarily) clean diaper. Ahhhh, it's such a beautiful experience this raising of children...
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Getting to the new normal
Well, we finally made it home this past weekend. That was a long long week, but it paid off in the end. :) Both Sharaze & Autumn are doing fine. We took Autumn in for her first pediatrician appointment today and that went pretty well. We've got to go tomorrow to have some bloodwork done on her (I will not stay in the office for that fun) but other than that things are moving right along. In fact, her umbilical cord fell off today which was kind of weird.
Sharaze is also doing better, although it's going to take a little while for her to get back to where she was. But she really is doing quite well and is already taking less of her pain medicine as her body mends up.
Life here at the house is slowly starting to slip into a new routine as we figure out how to all live (and sleep!) together. And that's the biggest thing right there. It's no joke what they say about the newborns keeping you up in the beginning. We feel great if she sleeps about 2 or 3 hours straight during the night. :| Hopefully this will be turned around within a couple of weeks...
And of course I have some new pictures uploaded for you guys to check out. Just click here to see the latest ones.
And for the final bit of fun, I present to you a video of Sharaze changing the first diaper in her entire life. How someone can make it 26 years without changing a single diaper astounds me but I guess it's fitting that her first one is on her own daughter. :)
Sharaze is also doing better, although it's going to take a little while for her to get back to where she was. But she really is doing quite well and is already taking less of her pain medicine as her body mends up.
Life here at the house is slowly starting to slip into a new routine as we figure out how to all live (and sleep!) together. And that's the biggest thing right there. It's no joke what they say about the newborns keeping you up in the beginning. We feel great if she sleeps about 2 or 3 hours straight during the night. :| Hopefully this will be turned around within a couple of weeks...
And of course I have some new pictures uploaded for you guys to check out. Just click here to see the latest ones.
And for the final bit of fun, I present to you a video of Sharaze changing the first diaper in her entire life. How someone can make it 26 years without changing a single diaper astounds me but I guess it's fitting that her first one is on her own daughter. :)
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Crazy times and finally some pictures!
Man, has it been a loooong and tiring week so far. Well here's a quick rundown on how things went.
We went in on Sunday to have a final test done to check on Autumn but while we were there the doctor decided that since we were there that we should go ahead and stay there so they could start the inducement process that night. Autumn was doing very well and they wanted to move ahead while she was in good shape.
So after over a period of a few hours they gave Sharaze the stuff she needed to start the labor process which she entered sometime early Monday morning. Over the course of they day, they kept watching her to see how things were progressing. Sharaze did a great job through all this (the epidural certainly helped!)Much later Monday night, after 15 hours of being in labor, the doctors found that Sharaze was dilated but just not nearly enough so the decision was made to go with a C-section.
I gotta say this was kind of a rough experience. Sharaze really didn't want a C-section but she knew it was the best and right decision. So we gowned up and went on in. I will say this about the procedure; they had Autumn out of that womb in no time at all. I had barely gotten in the door and maybe 2 or 3 minutes later they had her out and she started her crying. It was pretty awesome to hear that sound. Sharaze was doing good herself but then a very bad thing happened. Her pain medicine wore off in the middle of her still being opened up. She was in a LOT of pain and it was so hard to watch her. I actually only got to see Autumn very briefly because I just didn't want to leave Sharaze's side as she was so pitiful and in pain. But the anesthesiologist moved really fast in getting her back under. He actually just knocked her out so quickly that she started snoring a little bit on the table. :) Finally, they got her closed up and I got to hold Autumn for a few seconds to show Sharaze, but she was so drugged up she barely remembers it. She did give her a brief kiss though. And then they took Autumn off for testing.
Eventually they took Autumn to the NICE (the place for preemie babies) to be monitored more closely since she was breathing too fast and her blood sugar was a bit low. It was really hard having this done because that meant Sharaze couldn't go see her since she couldn't leave her room either.
But as of today, both of them are doing much better. Sharaze is moving around slowly but surely and had her epidural removed. She's doing really well I think. Autumn is also doing pretty good. Her breathing has gotten much better and her blood sugar is back in line. They're still keeping her in the NICU to watch her and make sure she stays healthy on a consistent basis but we can go see her now and even feed her at certain times.
As of now, we're going to have to stay in the hospital until Friday night. We're not sure how long Autumn is going to stay, but obviously we're really praying that she'll get to come home with us when we leave. But if not, that's ok. Whatever is best for her is alright with us. All the staff have been super great so that's really helped too.
Ok, enough rambling for now, I know you just want to see the pictures!
(Apologies for some of the darker pictures but I couldn't risk the flash waking her up sometimes.)
I forgot her stats! 5lbs and 19 inches. She was born on May 14th at 9:09pm.
We went in on Sunday to have a final test done to check on Autumn but while we were there the doctor decided that since we were there that we should go ahead and stay there so they could start the inducement process that night. Autumn was doing very well and they wanted to move ahead while she was in good shape.
So after over a period of a few hours they gave Sharaze the stuff she needed to start the labor process which she entered sometime early Monday morning. Over the course of they day, they kept watching her to see how things were progressing. Sharaze did a great job through all this (the epidural certainly helped!)Much later Monday night, after 15 hours of being in labor, the doctors found that Sharaze was dilated but just not nearly enough so the decision was made to go with a C-section.
I gotta say this was kind of a rough experience. Sharaze really didn't want a C-section but she knew it was the best and right decision. So we gowned up and went on in. I will say this about the procedure; they had Autumn out of that womb in no time at all. I had barely gotten in the door and maybe 2 or 3 minutes later they had her out and she started her crying. It was pretty awesome to hear that sound. Sharaze was doing good herself but then a very bad thing happened. Her pain medicine wore off in the middle of her still being opened up. She was in a LOT of pain and it was so hard to watch her. I actually only got to see Autumn very briefly because I just didn't want to leave Sharaze's side as she was so pitiful and in pain. But the anesthesiologist moved really fast in getting her back under. He actually just knocked her out so quickly that she started snoring a little bit on the table. :) Finally, they got her closed up and I got to hold Autumn for a few seconds to show Sharaze, but she was so drugged up she barely remembers it. She did give her a brief kiss though. And then they took Autumn off for testing.
Eventually they took Autumn to the NICE (the place for preemie babies) to be monitored more closely since she was breathing too fast and her blood sugar was a bit low. It was really hard having this done because that meant Sharaze couldn't go see her since she couldn't leave her room either.
But as of today, both of them are doing much better. Sharaze is moving around slowly but surely and had her epidural removed. She's doing really well I think. Autumn is also doing pretty good. Her breathing has gotten much better and her blood sugar is back in line. They're still keeping her in the NICU to watch her and make sure she stays healthy on a consistent basis but we can go see her now and even feed her at certain times.
As of now, we're going to have to stay in the hospital until Friday night. We're not sure how long Autumn is going to stay, but obviously we're really praying that she'll get to come home with us when we leave. But if not, that's ok. Whatever is best for her is alright with us. All the staff have been super great so that's really helped too.
Ok, enough rambling for now, I know you just want to see the pictures!
(Apologies for some of the darker pictures but I couldn't risk the flash waking her up sometimes.)
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I forgot her stats! 5lbs and 19 inches. She was born on May 14th at 9:09pm.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
It all starts tonight
I'm here at home picking up the hospital bags since they decided to start things a day early. So hopefully sometime tomorrow there will be a new birthday to celebrate! We'll keep everyone posted! Please say some prayers for Sharaze and Autumn tonight guys!
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