One Week Old Today!

Well today officially marks the first week of my little one's life. It has been such a roller coaster I can't believe the week has already gone by... Things are going pretty well right now and I am adjusting to being a new Mommy okay. There is definitley a learning curve to this Mommy business though and I'm starting to realize that there are some trial and error when it comes to this stuff.

Sam is doing great right now, though he is still on the oxygen, we're hoping that by this time next week he no longer needs it. An oxygen therapist came by yesterday and they were able to turn his level down a notch and he's going to come by next week and do a longer test, if Sam passes that test then we will be doing an overnight test and they will leave the pulse ox machine to do that. We've got our fingers crossed that he passes that. As far as his jaundice, he is all better from that and no longer needs to be on phototherapy, we are thrilled about that since the phototherapy blanket they gave us was extremely cumbersome, and now at least we can put him in pajama's for bed.

Breastfeeding isn't going so well and I've made the decision that I probably won't continue after the first month. He just was given a bottle automatically in the NICU and because of that he doesn't think of the breast as food, and he gets extremely frustrated every time I try and feed him from it, and then I get frustrated, and it just isn't conducive to a stressfree environment... I truly feel that had he not gone to the NICU and been bottle fed that we wouldn't be having these issues. I do however want him to be able to get the best of it, so I am still pumping my breast milk and giving it to him in a bottle, he does pretty well with that and we don't get stressed out either. I'm just doing what's best for me and my baby.

Other than that, things are just going extremely well right now, AJ is making a great Dad and is helping me out SO much around the house, I couldn't ask for a better husband, he has been a big help in keeping everything neat and organized for me. I just love watching him with Sam, it is the sweetest thing ever and once Sam starts to get bigger I can't wait to see how AJ will be... I really did get so lucky when I found AJ, he was so supportive during the pregnancy and just absolutely great during my labor and how he stayed with Sam the whole time after he was born even when I couldn't. Having Sam has just increased my love for him times about a million, I thought I loved him before, but it is nothing compared to how much I love him now.... it's like that Brad Paisley song, every new event that happens in our lives just makes me realize all over again how much I love my husband.

Well anyways, I better get going, it's almost time for a feeding!