Labor and Delivery

I told you that I would jinx myself by writing a sleeping through the night post.

Monkey went to bed at 7:30pm last night and woke up hungry at 4am.  I sat him on his newborn lounger and went into the kitchen to make a bottle.

As I made the bottle, my eyes glanced at the clock on the microwave & I was taken back exactly to 12 weeks [click to continue…]

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Now that motherhood has been a part of my life for almost 5 weeks, I feel a little more confident about all things mom and baby related.  Notice I said “a little more confident”… I still have a long ways to go, but looking back to when Monkey was just born, I have come a long way.  There’s still so much for me to learn and room for my confidence to increase tenfold.

Motherhood is so unique that nothing except experience can really prepare you.  You can read books, blogs, or listen to advice from parents, but it will not be the same when you have a child.  It’s just something that you need to [click to continue…]

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Hey everyone, it’s time for a new baby blog contest where you can win all three Laugh and Learn DVD’s! Just follow the instruction on this contest blog post to enter.  But first, let’s fill you in on the Laugh and Learn DVD’s…

About a month ago, Jane and I received a copy of each of the Laugh and Learn DVD’s by Sheri Bayles to watch and review.  Since Jane and I were only able to attend one baby class (which I failed because of my swaddling techniques) these DVD’s came in handy!  We really enjoyed watching these [click to continue…]

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Things are finally starting to settle down and I think the postpartum baby blues have completely left my body now.  It feels nice to be on my computer again since little Monkey is sleeping.  I know that I’m supposed to sleep when he does, but I can’t grasp napping during the day just yet.  (Maybe I’m just not tired enough?!)

I wish things weren’t so crazy when we first got home because I would have loved to blog about how I was feeling.  I’ll try my best to recap my feelings for you now, but I feel completely different now, which is such a good thing!

I couldn’t wait to be discharged from the hospital last Saturday.  I was ready to go!  It was an exciting time to have Tarzan pack up the car and for me and Monkey to be wheeled down to meet him at the car.  It was also a scary [click to continue…]

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Finally, I found time to blog about my full labor and delivery story!  It all started after a night trying to induce labor that was full of sex, sitting on the birthing ball, and eating pizza with pepperoni and pineapple.

Later that night, Tarzan and I fell asleep on the couch and love seat in the living room.

At 2 am I woke up to go to the bathroom and there was nothing unusual about that.  I woke up again at 4 am to find my panties soaked and a circle of wetness that leaked onto the shorts I was wearing.

Hmm… Could this have meant that my water broke? I wasn’t sure.

I first noticed that it was a clear liquid, so no green there.  (Yay!)  I took a whiff to see if it smelled like urine and it didn’t.  There was actually no smell to it.  At this point, I was thinking that all signs were leading to the fact that my water [click to continue…]

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This will be a very quick post…  While Jane is going through all of the answers to the questions to the baby and breastfeeding post I wrote last night, I decided to play around with some photos I recently took of Monkey in Photoshop while we’ve been discussing everything.  I’m brand new to Photoshop, so bare with my photo editing abilities.  I will get better!

So yes, I was able to convince Jane to allow me to upload a few of our baby Monkey photos since they don’t show his entire face.  I was really happy that she let me upload my favorite photo I’ve taken so far.  I won’t tell you which one [click to continue…]

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Are you ready for my LONGEST blog post to date?  Grab a cup of coffee and let’s get you all caught up on everything we’ve had going on!

Since we got home from the hospital, I feel like we’ve been in a tornado.  We’re busier than we’ve ever been and the days are all running together.  Our son, Baby Tarzan, is doing GREAT.  Jane is also doing great, but very, very tired as you can imagine.

Now before I go into my little “being a Daddy” piece today, I wanted to update you guys on a lot of different things based on questions that have come in from our blog here and on Twitter that people like you [click to continue…]

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Dear Baby T,

Hi there! I hope you are doing good swimming in my belly.  It’s nice having you in there & I hope that it’s been a great home for the past 9 months.

So I just wanted to talk to you real fast about something…

Here’s the thing:  As you know, or actually I’m guessing that you [click to continue…]

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Today started off just like every other day.  39 weeks pregnant and still waiting… But then something strange happened that will (hopefully) make this day stand out as a little different from the others.

A couple of my girl friends were in town and they wanted to meet us for lunch.  We settled on Cafe Express at noon.  Tarzan didn’t really feel like getting dressed, but I persuaded him to go and am glad that he went.

Anyways…

Lunch was great!  I enjoyed my huge greek salad with chicken and Tarzan [click to continue…]

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