More Pictures!

Calvin is 2 weeks old today. He had his first pediatrician appointment last Friday. (It did not go well, the doctor was a complete jerk... We are looking for another one right now.) But Calvin is healthy and already weighs 8 lbs 14 oz. He was only 7 lb 13 oz the Saturday before at his weight check so he gained a pound last week! I asked the pediatrician about his goopy eyes and he said that he has clogged tear ducts, which will eventually open on their own. Everything else looked great. He is a healthy eater and still sleeping good. I start clinicals tomorrow. : ( Korey and I left Calvin for a few hours this weekend to break me in. I did okay so we'll see how it goes...

Calvin updates - 1 week

Calvin decided he enjoys sleeping for 4 hours at a time throughout the night! It may just be a fluke but the last 2 nights I have had to wake him for his feedings! (The first night I woke up and saw that it had been 4 hours and I freaked out and hurried to check that he was breathing!) He is such a good baby. We have our first pediatrician appointment tomorrow. He still isn't pooping much, I give him a couple formula bottles a day and I've been pumping between feeds to get him ready for next week when I go back to clinicals. We love laying skin-to-skin with him on our chests. That is where he spends most of his time with daddy. I got a Moby wrap and I LOVE it. I wear him on my chest (he's in it now actually) and he just snuggles up and sleeps for hours. And I have both hands free to get stuff done! We have gotten so much help from everyone and really appreciate everything people are doing for us. I can't believe this first week with him flew by so fast!

Calvin's Birth Story

Well I'm finally getting around to posting more than just pictures. Calvin is doing wonderful. He is a very hungry baby and likes to eat and play all night long, but we are adjusting slowly and enjoying our first few days with him. He hasn't been pooping as much as he should be so I've been supplementing with formula after breastfeeding. We went to the hospital for a weight check yesterday and he weighed 7 lbs 13 oz, which the pediatrician said was great. I've been wanting to post about his whole birth story so here it goes...

I woke up Tuesday morning around 3am with cramps but that wasn't really anything new so I didn't think much of it. Around 5:30 I decided to hop in the shower to see if that would relax me and stop the cramping. That's when the contractions started, mostly in my back. I started timing them and they were very consistently 5 minutes apart. I woke up Korey and let him know that I thought I might be in labor, so we started getting things together. By around 7 they were 2-3 minutes apart and pretty unbearable. We got to hospital around 9:30 and they checked me and said I was 4 cm already! I couldn't believe it, since I was still closed at my appointment on Friday. Everything seemed to fly by after that... After about 4 hours of back labor I gave in and got the epidural. I apparently wasn't cooperating very well because it took 3 tries to get the catheter in. 30 minutes later I was still feeling the contractions so the anesthesiologist came back to readjust things (that wasn't fun at all). Finally I was able to rest and by around 4:00 I was 9 1/2 cm. I pushed for about 2 hours and Calvin was born at 5:54pm. We were all so shocked when Korey said "It's a BOY" and even more shocked when they said he weighed 8 lbs 7 oz!! He spent the next day up in NICU for some breathing issues (they just wanted to observe him since he was breathing a little too fast), but we got to spend the day up there with him and he came down Wednesday evening around 6pm just in time for the family visitors. Went home Thursday night and have been hanging out since then enjoying our little man!

Family Pics

Calvin Jack Padgett

Some pics... More to come

It's a boy!!

Sorry for the late update! Baby Boy Padgett was born at 5:54pm and weighed in at 8 lbs 7 oz. He is so handsome, we wil post pics tomorrow. Everyone is happy and healthy (and exhausted). No name yet, but we will keep you posted! I will also post a longer birth story, everything went smoothly and we are happy is finally here!