One Month

Jimi is still doing great. He's getting bigger and stronger every day. He's still waking up every few hours at night to eat. We're hoping he'll start sleeping for longer stretches at a time soon.

 Jimi is one month old today!

Poor guy was a little cold from his bath and didn't enjoy the photo shoot very much.

 We took a tour of the Redhook Brewery with Jay and Karen (James' dad and step mom) and had a great time! We thought it was a good way to celebrate Jimi being a month old, even if he didn't get to enjoy any of the liquid goodness.

A few days ago James and I decided to go on a walk around the neighborhood with Jimi and Penny after I finished doing some laundry. I came back from doing the laundry to find this:

I had to wait about45 minutes before one of them woke up so we could go on our walk.

2 Weeks

We have survived our first two weeks and with only minor sleep deprivation. So far we've only had a few all nighters, we're keeping our fingers crossed that those will be few and far between. 

Jimi is growing at an amazing rate. The doctor said they look for a gain of an ounce a day... in 8 days Jimi gained 18 ounces. At his two week check up he was weighing 8lb 12 oz and was 21.5 inches long.

 A few days old... deep in thought

2 Weeks

He's Here!

Introducing:

James Theodore Orr

Born Sept. 30th at 9:49pm

7lb 15oz
21 inches

After several weeks of contractions and one long night a serious contractions on the 28th (they died off by the morning), I FINALLY went into labor on the evening of the 29th, my due date. I like to think it was because I slid (very slowly, one at a time) down a set stairs on my bottom, trying to get things jump started. But it's likely that Jimi was just ready to be born.

Here's a break down of how the labor and delivery went:

 5:30pm- slid down the stairs

6:00pm- started having contractions while at dinner at the Olive Garden

10pm- Finally decided I couldn't sit through the end of Top Chef to see who got kick off and needed to go to the hospital

12am- Admitted to the hospital from triage- dilated to 4cm 100% effaced

12am-5:00am- walked around delivery floor. Dilated to 6cm, doctor broke my water.

8am- Dilated to 8cm.

1pm- STILL at 8cm.

At this point Jimi was facing the wrong direction which was making my body take longer to dilate and was creating incredible pain on my pelvic bone. Not knowing how much longer it was going to take I decided to get an epidural.

3pm- My epidural failed.

5pm- Got a second epidural- it got blocked some how.

6pm- Got a third epidural.

7pm- I was allowed to begin pushing. (My third epidural failed)

9:49pm- Jimi was FINALLY here!

They only let you push for three hours so Jimi just made it before they sent us to the Operating Room, which was a possibility the whole time because of how he was positioned. Thankfully Jimi decided to turn himself to the correct (face down) position as I was pushing. Other than the three failed epidurals all of the labor and delivery went great.

After being sent home from the hospital on Saturday morning, we had one of the scariest evenings of our lives that night when we had to take Jimi to the ER. After being circumcised you're told to watch for certain signs of complications...One of those being if they don't urinate within 8 hours. Jimi had not urinated in 24hours which is another problem. We were instructed to take him to the ER, where they gave him an IV of fluids and did blood work. It was honestly the heart breaking thing I have ever seen. After 5 hours Jimi finally went pee and his blood work came back ok, so they sent us home.

He's been doing great ever sense.

We, of course, think he is absolutely perfect! He sleeps pretty well throughout the night, only waking for diaper changes and feedings and he's pretty content to just sleep or hangout during the day.

In the car on the way to his first doctor's check-up