ole schnikees: baby ole

once al returned from getting his prescription and getting us jimmy johns (yum!!), trevor had been bathed and i had showered, we began to get ready for bed, hoping to get some sleep. as i was snuggling into bed, i looked over at trevor in his crib and saw some moisture coming out of his mouth and he was funny colored. al was up about to go to the bathroom, so i asked him if trevor was choking? al quickly sprung to action, picked up a purple/blue trevor and started the infant cpr he had been taught. i pushed the nurses button but knew that it wasn't the emergency button, so i ran out into the hall to yell to our nurse at the time, jean (grama's favorite nurse). she quickly came, saw that al was doing what needed to be done and grabbed the suction thing to get stuff out of his nose and mouth. he then started to get his pink color back and cry. jean said, "yeah, he was blue." it was so scary!! luckily al was there with me!!

after that (and having to sleep in the delivery bed which was hard), it was hard for me to sleep. the couple times i did fall asleep, i'd wake up drenched. i was sweating while sleeping; my clothes and the bedding was all soaked, every time i woke up. we originally thought i was getting fevers from the flu but after the next night of the same thing while feeling ok during the day, we realized it was probably night sweats from the hormones. luckily, they didn't continue much after we got home.

monday night, tyler stayed at our house with tator. then tuesday night mom did and wednesday night peter did. so very thankful they did; tator loves his grama and grandpa!

wednesday was a long day; we were stuck in the room and had to ask the nurses to get me everything, whereas normally al or mom could have just run to the kitchen room to get me water or ice or whatever we needed. trevor's pediatric doctor, dr sarumi, came in to see him. she said he looked good but because he hadn't had a pee diaper yet (lots of poopy diapers tho) she couldn't do his circumcision until thursday morning. we had lots of nurses, and worked on breastfeeding; he had a good latch and desire to suck so it wasn't bad.

mom, peter and al ran to sams club during the day to get al's prescription. when they returned they had a diary queen birthday cake for me and trevor! :) we also got our free pizza party food and drink from the hospital. afterwards, mom headed home to work thursday since we'd be in the hospital anyway. and we napped and just hung out until bed time. had night sweats again and didn't sleep a whole lot, but felt better.

thursday was a busy day. we knew we'd be going home but had to wait for him to get his circ and then he had to stay for 2 hours afterwards. we were shooting for leaving at noon and we did just about that. his circ went good and he wasn't too cranky afterwards. we also had a carseat check before we left. it was good to get home but i still didn't feel great. we breastfed, slept, changed diapers, repeat.

friday mom came back down, which was very helpful! we hadn't established a routine yet and i was getting just a little sleep while having some bottom pain and a cough. a couple of those days just flew by and i barely remember them.

saturday we had our first appointment. they usually don't do appointments on saturdays but wanted to see us especially with the flu and such. we'd be seeing kris the midwife and had to call prior to leaving to see if she was at the clinic or at the hospital. upon calling we found out she was at the hospital but had 2 laboring mom's coming in for which she was the delivering midwife. so we waited around for her call back to let us know when to come in. she finally called about 3 pm and said things had slowed down. so we headed out. mom took the vehicle over to shopko while we went to the appointment. it was supposed to be a lactaction appointment and since we'd waited so long, i'd considered not going since he was latching and feeding well (or so i thought).

i'm so glad we went. they ended up weighing him and figuring out that he'd lost 11% of his body weight. he weighed 6 lbs 7 oz. anything 10% or less is ok, so he'd lost too much. we then did tests to make sure he was latching, sucking and swallowing, and that i was producing enough milk. he was latching and sucking well and i was definitely producing milk. so we figured that he was probably doing a lot of pleasure, leisure sucking and not nutritional sucking and swallowing. so we rented a pump from the hospital since my free one from insurance hadn't come yet and probably wouldn't for a week. we were showed how to use it, and given instructions to write down every diaper and every feeding, and to feed him at least an ounce every 3 hours if not more. we also then had to come back in monday to weigh him again.

so the rest of saturday and sunday were spent pumping, feeding, and creating a routine; and thank goodness we did, because that routine and writing everything down made me feel so much better and in control. sunday also was the day that we would stop wearing masks!!! i got to kiss my boy!! mom headed home on sunday and we watched a lot of olympics.

monday we were called at 815a and asked to come in for an appointment at 930; we were still in bed so we hustled to get going. we got to the appt right at 930. he gained 5 ounces in just about one day!!! i had also noticed that the whites of his eyes were yellow and his skin looked a little yellow. anne, the nurse we saw, wasn't too concerned about jaundice but because his eyes were yellow she ordered blood work to check his biliruben. (we got a call shortly after leaving that his levels were good). after the appointment, we went to the bank and target, then to al's work to get trevor added to the insurance. while al was filling that out, i got a call from the tax guy saying our taxes were done and we could come sign them and then he could submit them. so we drove over to do that. we got a lot done, but i was beat and hurting (still having some bottom pain). monday night i also got breast pain in the right boob that i originally thought was just engorgement since my milk was coming in large amounts now (2-4 oz in every 5-10 minute pump). but when it didn't go away on tuesday, i realized it was probably clogged ducts; it was painful.

our beautiful blonde baby :)