Baptism

Jamison is now part of the family of God!!!  He was baptized on Sun, the 23rd.  He was very good for the event.  He slept through most of it and didn't even peep when the water was poured on his head.  The oil that was used smells soooo good and you can still smell it on him today.  The party afterwards was a success too.  We had a big group on people gathered together to celebrate our little boy.  He of course slept through most of it, but was passed from relative to relative while sleeping!  I don't think he was put down once the whole time!

Today is my first day on my own with Jamison since coming home from the hospital.  I have been doing well and Jamison has been a good little boy the whole day!  It has been snowing and blowing outside but we are nice and comfy in our little house.  I know that there will probably be some hard days ahead, but right now I feel like I am finally getting into the mother mode!

Things come in threes???

Well,  now onto the third thing to strike me down in the last three weeks.....  Along with having a baby and having stomach surgery, I decided to deal with postpartum depression.  It is hard to deal with having a new life that is all yours to take care of.  I felt very overwhelmed and scared, so I was given some medication to help with all the anxiety that I felt.  Unfortunately the medication decided to give me very bad side effects and I ended up in the hospital yet again.  No fun!!!!!  I was only there one night, but it threw me completely for a loop.  After freaking out so bad with the one medication, I didn't trust myself to be alone with Jamison during the day, so the rest of the week I was carted around from parents house to parents house.  Scott's mom Julia was a real saviour and watched Jamie during the night for a few of the days so that mommy and daddy could try and catch up on some sleep.  Love you Julia!!!

Things are better now, we are all at home and made it through the first night without any problems.  I am feeling better and better each day.  It has been a very long road but I think that I am now heading the right way.

 

Recoup and Regroup

Okay a lot to catch up on since my last blog.  Lets see what has all happened... I can't even remember.  Everything was going good Tuesday after finally getting out of the house for a few mins while voting.  Tues was great, well most of it.  Some sucked...... Obama won :(, I had an ulcer ruptured in my intestines which caused massive infection and tons of pain to shoot through my whole body.  Yeah parts of Tues weren't so good.

Turns out I had had this ulcer growing in the part of my intestines right below my stomach without me knowing it and it finally decided to give way.  It is not a good thing to have your stomach contents to get loose into your body!  So a trip to the emergency room, tons of tests, a trip in the ambulance to another hospital, more tests, a very painfully night where they didn't know what the test meant, finally figuring out the results, surgery, and then five days of recovery in the hospital made for a very long time.

I have been home from the hospital for two days now.  Yesterday I sent the day at my mom's trying to recoup some energy and heal.  Kinda hard to do with an almost 4 year old running around you all day.  Ella was very interested in Jamison, but was disappointed in the lack of skills he possessed.  She didn't quite grasp the concept that he was only a few weeks old and not up to playing house or using the potty yet.  The house just got fuller when Mende and Eli, the kids my mom babysits for, got home too.  Then my sister, Nellana, and her daughter, Delaina, joined into the mix too.  We had a very full and crazy house.  I was ready to crash by 7 pm, which I did since Jamison isn't breast fed anymore Scott got to the evening baby duties while mommy slept a little.

Today my sister came over to help with Jamie and housework while I try to rest and recoup more while in the quietness of my own house.  Much less noisy here!  My mind still hasn't gotten the idea that I can't do all the stuff that I used to so I feel like a big blob most of the time hobbling around from room to room not being able to do anything.  My body and mind need to regroup.  She has been a very big help letting me take naps and work around the house.

Jamison has gotten bigger.  Most people probably couldn't tell but I can.  He had his first bath in his bath tub today.  He didn't like it one bit!!!  I will add a pic soon.  Right now he has been sleeping for almost two hours which has been nice.  He has been doing pretty good at night sleeping too, so hopefully we will start to get a little more sleep at night soon!

So Goes the Time!

Well, I am a slacker.  Jamison Joseph was born into the world on Oct 26th and I am now just writing about it.  It has been a very long week and this has been the first time that I really felt up to writing anything.

Labor went pretty well I guess.  I don't have other experiences to compare it with but overall I think everything was normal.  We thought my water broke on Friday night so we made a trip to the hospital.  It was a false alarm :)  But then very early Sat morn I started to have contractions.  They were very mild at first so I slept through most of them, but man did they get very intense!!  I was told that labor pains could be felt starting at your back and working their way to the front and top of your belly.  Mine just felt like major cramps!!!  By five 0'clock, I was to the point of being doubled over in pain, so we figured we needed to head to the hospital.  We made it just in time!  As soon as I stepped out the of the car in the hospital parking lot, my water broke.  It was not the big gush that they show on tv, more like a small leak that I know was not normal!!  

Pretty soon we were checked into the hospital and put in triage of the maternity ward.  We were only there for a little bit before we got moved to a labor and delivery room.  By 8:30 I was still only 3 cm dilated, but in tons of pain so I got the epidural.  I loved it so much!!!!  Yet, it is a very strange feeling to not feel your legs or lower half!  I couldn't move my right leg for a very long time even after it was supposed to have worn off.  By 10:30 I was still only 3cm, but not feeling any pain :)  I started to feel funny by 11:30 and when they checked me again I was fully dilated and ready to go!  After pushing 2 and a half hours and a little break, Jamison was born at 3:11 on Sun morning.  He started screaming as soon as his little head was out, so he has a pretty good set of lungs on him!!

We came home from the hospital on Tuesday, and I so began to miss those lovely nurses that would come and take the baby to the nursery if you wanted sleep.  I need one of those for my house!  The first few days are kinda a blur of no sleep, trying to feed, learning that he will pee every time you change his diaper and finding out that he is a night owl!!  We had tons of visitors come over to see him.  Scott's mom has been over almost every day to see him.  She loves the little guy a lot.  

I am not sure if it was a combo of no sleep and all the pain and trauma my body had been through, but I managed to catch the flu a few days ago and have been sick every morning.  Nobody told me you could get morning sickness after the baby is born!  My wonderful husband Scott, stayed home from work today just so that I could try and get more sleep.  He has been a great daddy and husband and I love him very much.  I am not sure how I am going to handle the rest of the six weeks I have off though!  I guess it is all a learning situation.  I am hoping that it all gets easier as time goes on. I am starting to feel better which is why I am writing this now.  I think that I do need some more sleep though, so I am going off to take a nap while Jamison is also asleep and quiet.