Our two week old

A whole week has passed, but doesn't it seem more like a lifetime? As you're adjusting to feedings and getting by on less sleep, your baby is also adjusting to his new world. He sleeps in short naps, wakes to feed, and spends some time quietly alert before drifting off to sleep again. Babies' eyes focus best on objects between 8 and 15 inches away — not coincidentally, the distance to your face when held in your arms.

How your baby's growing:

Your womb was a warm and cozy environment, and it takes time for your baby to adjust to the various sights, sounds, and sensations of life outside your body. You may not be able to detect much of a personality just yet as your baby spends his time moving in and out of several different states of sleepiness, quiet alertness, and active alertness.

The only way your baby knows to communicate is by crying, but you can communicate with him through your voice and your touch. (He can now recognize your voice and pick it out among others.)

Your baby probably loves to be held, caressed, kissed, stroked, massaged, and carried. He may even make an "ah" sound when he hears your voice or sees your face, and he'll be eager to find you in a crowd.

9/16/10...p*ull-up dry

L's p*ull-up was dry this morning! Hoping for more mornings like this but really we just want her to be able to go to the bathroom without our help in the middle of the night (she'd been waking us up to put her diaper back on).

9/15/10...L trying p*ull-ups

Tonight is L's first night in pull-ups.

We had a scary moment today when L pulled C's blaniket out from under him (he was in his p@ck-n-play) and flipped him over (all in front of us). Thank goodness we were standing right there to turn him over.

Feeding C is going well. My engorgement only lasted Monday & Tuesday so that's good because that can be quite painful.

Friday, 9/10/10 5:35...Son is born!!

Elizabeth Kent House At hospital. contractions REALLY hurt!!!!!

Elizabeth Kent House Elizabeth's Husbands first facebook update...ever. Mom is doing well, epidural in so feeling much better but is very tired. Baby is doing well. Mom is at 4cm last time they checked. Elizabeth Quote: "Not progressing fast enough"

Elizabeth Kent House Elizabeth is 5cm about 30 to 45 minutes ago. Dr's were concerned about her C-section scar so they broke her water and put in a monitor. all is well.

Elizabeth Kent House its weird putting everything about this up on the web but dont know any other way to reach everyone. Elizabeth is now 100% effaced and our son is very low. She is 9.5cm dilated so just a little bit more. its almost go time :)

7lbs 12oz, 20 inches. Born at 5:35 mountain. Mommy and baby are doing fine but both are tired.

Friday, 9/10/10 2:25am...labor...

It's about 2:25am on Friday morning and I'm pretty sure i'm in labor... painful contractions i have to breath through 5 minutes apart for about the last hour... about to call the doctor. i guess i better wake dave up at some point :) but i put my makeup on so i'm ready to go :)

9/6/10...39 weeks...

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How your baby's growing:

Your baby's waiting to greet the world! He continues to build a layer of fat to help control his body temperature after birth, but it's likely he already measures about 20 inches and weighs a bit over 7 pounds, a mini watermelon. (Boys tend to be slightly heavier than girls.) The outer layers of his skin are sloughing off as new skin forms underneath.

How your life's changing:

At each of your now-weekly visits, your caregiver will do an abdominal exam to check your baby's growth and position. She might also do an internal exam to see whether your cervix has started ripening: softening, effacing (thinning out), and dilating (opening). But even armed with this information, there's still no way for your caregiver to predict exactly when your baby is coming. If you go past your due date, your caregiver will schedule you for fetal testing (usually a sonogram) after 40 weeks to ensure that it's safe to continue the pregnancy. If you don't go into labor on your own, most practitioners will induce labor when you're between one and two weeks overdue — or sooner if there's an indication that the risk of waiting is greater than the risks of delivering your baby without further delay.

While you're waiting, it's important to continue to pay attention to your baby's movements and let your caregiver know right away if they seem to decrease. Your baby should remain active right up to delivery, and a noticeable slowdown in activity could be a sign of a problem. Also call if you think your water may have broken. Membranes rupture before the beginning of labor in about 8 percent of term pregnancies. Sometimes there's a big gush of fluid, but sometimes there's only a small gush or a slow leak. (Don't try to make the diagnosis yourself. Call even if you only suspect you have a leak.) If you rupture your membranes and don't start contractions on your own, you'll be induced.

false labor (pre-labor)

Last night I had contractions all night long. They started at 15 minutes apart for an hour or so and then got up to 7 minutes apart before I finally fell asleep some time after 4am. When I got up in the morning, I had a couple contractions but then they went away. L had been up every 45 minutes for half the night so between her and the contractions, I got like 2 hours of sleep. L came down with a cold Saturday morning so she was having a tough time sleeping. I was so tired, I went back to bed in the morning and then took a nap in the afternoon too. But the regular contractions never came back.

On Saturday, we spent some time playing with L in the morning before D's mom came down and D took her to the store to buy stuff she needed for her computer. Then after they came back, she watched L so we could go out by ourselves. We went to lunch at To*kyo Joes and then test drove a To*oyta Si*enna in Boulder before heading down to Westminster to test drive a Ho*nda Od*yssey. The later was black on black and was SO hot. Then I decided that even though it was already three p.m. that this was our chance to get all the way down to south Denver to look at another Ho*nda so we did that as well. Our sales guy down there was from Paris so that was super fun. When we got back home, we decided to go to Chi*ck-Fil-A for dinner since it was already after 5pm and his mom had never been there.