One Week Old!

Brennan was 1 week old yesterday, it is amazing how completely in love you can fall so quickly. He has been just about perfect. He likes to nurse all day long, but he has been so good at night that I can't really complain. The boys are still very much in love with him. My mother in law has been here this week, and has been a tremendous help. She has just about caught us up on laundry and has driven the boys to and from all week allowing me to rest some.

Brennan went to the pediatrician on Monday and was 6 pounds 5 ounces (what he was when we were discharged from the hospital). He said since my milk didn't come in until Saturday he had probably gotten as low as 6 pounds even to 6 pounds 2 ounces. He didn't look jaundice at all, so we didn't have to test him. He said he should have no trouble regaining his birth weight by his 2 week check up on Tuesday. We have been having to wake him up at night to feed, but last night he woke himelf up each time just before the alarm was to go off. Of course, starting tonight we can let him sleep as long as he wants at night, but he will probably be waking himself up again. lol

Brennan very rarely cries, and if he does it is only when he is hungry. As soon as he is eating he is done crying. He loves holding fingers and to snuggle. He would lay on your chest for hours if you let him. He is also very alert. When he was born he was wide awake and didn't shut his eyes until he was over 1 1/2 hours old. He still is very alert and always looking around and taking everything in. We are truly blessed!

After his 1st bath. I wanted a crying picture, but he is so mellow it took a while to get it. lol

Brennan's Pictures, finally!

Brennan just a few minutes old, I hadn't even held him yet.

The 1st time Brandt saw him, he was only a few hours old.

The 1st time Brayden held him, he is just a few hours old. Brayden is so super excited about his brother, he actually cried when he had to leave the hospital at night and Brennan wasn't coming with him.

Bryson holding him the 1st time. I wasn't sure how Bryson would do with Brennan. he never really acted like he understood we were having a baby. However, he has done wonderful with him. He loves him and is very gentle, and has not been jealous at all.

Brennan at 1 day old

Brennan getting his hearing test. They just started doing this test in the room with the parents, so we have never been present before. It looks so cute, like he is jamming to music.

Leaving the hospital. The blanket he has is the one that someone made for my grandmother over 60 years ago. My aunt and dad both used it when they came home from the hospital, plus all of my siblings, my nephews, and all 4 boys. It is pink on 1 side and blue on the other, and is really great shape. The outfit he came home in is the same one Dustin came home in and all 3 of the other boys.

Bluebonnets

We had every intention of doing Bluebonnet pictures early this year so we weren't running around trying to find one of the last patches around, like we do every year. Well we still ended up waiting until April 16th, and finally found a nice patch off of Hwy 47. Maybe next year we'll do it earlier?

It was almost impossible to get all 3 boys to look and smile at the same time. This was the best picture of them we took. Bryson flat out refused pictures when we tried to take some of just him.

I did not do very well on taking maternity pictures this time, so I thought I would take one since I was out there. Brennan was born 6 days later, I can't believe how small I carried him...way smaller than the other boys.

Hospital picture

I am not sure if this will work or not, but here is a link to his hospital picture from today:
http://www.our365.com/newbornportraits/babydetail.aspx?birthid=82f9eeb6-f23f-42e0-a335-d32560c5e07b&babyid=b44c00b6-3659-49ee-9437-6f7bc1ae91f7

We are at the Med until tomorrow morning, and then I'll try to post pictures.

HE IS HERE!

Brennan Joseph is here. He was born at 10:58 this morning with the cord wrapped 4 times around his neck. Priase God my doctor had the wisdom to send us over and take it very slow. He is 6 pounds 11 ounces, and doing well. We were sent to L&D around 3 pm yesterday and they started a very slow pitocin yesterday around 3:45 pm. He was very high and had almost no fluid, so there was concern my water would break and he would still be high and we would end up with a cord accident. Everything went great, and he is perfect. We are at the Med and I'll try to post pictures later.

Interesting afternoon...

Around 11 am this morning it dawned on me that I had not felt Brennan move all day. Now he is not a big mover, plus I have an anterior placenta, which makes it even harder to feel. We called our doctor's office and we were informed we needed to go into Labor & Delivery to be monitored. Now when we had the non-stress test on Monday he barely moved, even zapping him with this sound machine, but his heart rate was good so they deemed that he had passed. So today I figured we would go in and they would see the heartbeat and send us home. Well as soon as the monitor hit my stomach we heard the heartbeat, that was a huge sigh of relief. They monitored me for a while, and came in and told me that while his heartrate is good it is not fluctuating and reacting like they want to see. She said there was a decent chance they would be delivering me today...ummm wow, totally not expecting that. She had me lay on my left side and finally his heart rate started reacting, although he still wasn't moving where I could feel him. My OB has written on my chart that he'll deliver, whether he is on call or not. So after some tracking down we find out he is in Houston. They ordered a very detailed biprofile ultrasound and they checked him over(kidneys, bladder, breathing movement, etc), and with a lot of poking and proding he finally moved 3 times (which is what is required to pass). Only 1 of those was a big enough movement for me to feel though. So they kind of left it up to us what we did, and we decided to go home and wait for my appointment on Monday since he passed all of the test even though I couldn't feel him. The nurse feels confident that after my appointment on Monday at 1, I'll be sent over to L&D and have a baby and that gives him a few more days to bake. She made me promise that if I felt uncomfortable with his lack of movement again I had to come back in. So until it happens nothing is set in stone, but it looks like Monday is D day. They sent me home on bed rest until Monday and want me on my left side until then. So this will be very interesting with the 3 boys home, Brandt should be fine, but if I am here the other 2 want to be on me and hanging on me. Please pray this goes well, and Brennan gets here safely on Monday if that is what is best.

Great game...

Brandt has been playing T-Ball 2 nights a week for a couple of weeks now. He LOVES it, and gets so excited on game nights. His team gives out a game ball every game to the player that did the best job during that game. Brandt has desperately wanted the game ball, but as a first time player he is still on a major learning curve and there are some really good players on his team that are a year or so older than he is. Well tonight he made an awesome play. He was playing second base, and the ball was hit hard towards him. He fielded it by getting his glove down and his body in front of it. Then he grabbed the ball and he ran to 2nd base and beat the runner, that boy is FAST! He was so excited, as outs are not very common in T-Ball. lol When he got the game ball, he was so happy he was jumping and grinning from ear to ear. We are going to get it a case and set it up on his dresser for him to see. Way to go Brandt, we are proud of you!

Brandt wanted to pretend he was throwing the ball.