0 weeks old:
So Asher's first week was spent almost entirely in the hospital! He was born on a Monday and we didn't get released until Friday so I tried to sum up everything in my post about his birth. The friday we got released from the hospital we went to Grantsville's homecoming football game (everyone said I was crazy to take a 5 day old baby out in public that soon but I needed to get out and about after being cooped up for 5 days so he got to come with haha!) I physically felt pretty awesome for just having a c-section but mentally and emotionally was a different story haha... Taking my brand new baby to the football game was the easiest part of my weekend! Once we brought him around all of our families I had to keep telling myself to breath or not go insane haha! Everyone loves a new baby and even though I swore I wouldn't be a paranoid mom it is a little harder than you think to watch him get passed around and to let all the little kids hold him and everyone breath their germs on him... Pretty much everything stressed me out and I still was a nervous wreck when it came to sleeping so I wasn't getting the rest I needed and the combination of everything pushed me over the edge just a little. My new mom hormones had me feeling depressed and I was stressed about being a good enough mom and going back to school and just all the fun stuff that comes with being a new mom. Luckily after an emotional breakdown or two and a ton of love and comfort from my wonderful husband I got over it and have felt continually better week by week! :)
So I already posted the pictures of our hospital adventure but here are a few that I didn't post that were taken during his 1st week either at the hospital or in Tooele! :)
This is my sweet smiley 2 day old baby :)
Dad and Asher at 6 days old :)
My stud at 3 days old
and lastly 5 days old :)
1 week old:During Asher's 2nd week of life we really just tried to adapt to life at home with a newborn. I started gradually going back to school and surprisingly only had 2 breakdowns the whole week haha! Eric took him to the doctor to get his billiruben tested again. He was almost back to birth weight and the doctor said his billiruben shouldn't be a concern. The little stinker also pooped all over the scale and while the nurse was cleaning it up and Eric was trying to put a new diaper on him he peed all over haha! We went home this weekend and had Asher's newborn pictures done, first at fotofly when he was 1 week and 4 days old and then had an amazing photographer do a second session when he was 1 week 5 days old! (I'll do a post full of the adorable pictures later... I have enough pictures without them haha!) Other than that I just tried (not very successfully) to catch up on some lost zzzz's and worked on letting my body rest and heal. We also tried to get the nursing thing down and slowly got a little better haha.
Dad's favorite outfit! (1 week 4 days!)
haha! Just snoozin on Grandpa Scott at 1 week 6 days old!
1 week and 2 days just taking it easy :)
2 weeks old:
This was the week of Asher's due date, which was pretty crazy for me to think about haha. This was my first week of going to all of my classes full swing and it was a lot harder than I thought! I did not have nearly the energy I thought I would and was pretty much exhausted all week but I slowly started to adjust and really have nothing to complain about since Asher has been an angel every time I've had to take him to class. Asher had his 2 week appointment and weighed in at 7 pounds 6 ounces which was an ounce over what the doctors said he needed to weigh! He also measured a little over 21 inches long! He had to get his PKU test done and it was so sad but he was a tough little guy and only cried for a second. This is also the week Asher got his first "real" bath. His dang umbilical cord wouldn't fall off. It was seriously hanging on by a thread and when he was 2 weeks and 3 days old I finally just clipped it with a pair of nail clippers since it was dried out the entire way down. We had been giving him little spit baths with rags and soap but it was a pain in the butt and if we got any liquid on his umbilical cord it would start to smell awful. He actually didn't mind having a bath and only cried when we pulled him out of the tub and the cold air hit him. This was also Asher's first week of church. He looked so handsome and didn't cry once all of sacrament! :)
Ash man's first church trip! (2 weeks 6 days!)
2 weeks 2 days! :)
First bath the day his umbilical cord finally came off!
2 weeks 3 days!
Sleepy guy! 2 weeks 2 days! (sorry it's side ways... It took forever to upload so I'm too lazy to fix it haha!)
2 weeks 6 days :)
3 weeks old:
This week was an interesting one for us... I had a UTI and got put on an antibiotic. Well this antibiotic did not agree with poor little Asher's tummy and he was super fussy and gassy! I had to be on the antibiotic for 7 days and on about the 4th day we finally decided it was best if I stopped nursing until it was out of my system and we gave him formula and I could just pump instead. We started using Similac sensitive formula since it said it was for gas and fussiness but he almost acted like it wasn't giving him what he needed and was crying to eat every 2 hours so we switched to just normal similac which was fine. Then we ran into the problem that the pump wasn't working for me and we were nervous if I didn't start nursing again I wouldn't be able to so after 3 days of formula I started nursing again. Well making the poor baby switch back and forth so much made his belly worse than if I would have just kept nursing! He didn't have a dirty diaper for over 2 1/2 days and he was super fussy again and sick. I felt so bad for making him sick but luckily we now have him back on a schedule and strictly nursing and feeling much better! :)
This week we took Asher to Cornbelly's for Aidan's birthday and then Witchapalooze for Melanies birthday and out to a movie for my mom's birthday so he got dragged all over the place and even with being constipated and sick he was an angel and didn't cry the whole time we were in the movie or at witchapalooza! We were blessed with such a wonderful little guy!
My little guy keeping me company in the morning! :) 3 weeks and 3 days :)
being a stinker and not sleeping at night! 3 weeks 5 days!
hahaha! His rubber binky was caught on the blanket and his lip at the same time! 3 weeks 6 days!
3 weeks old and finally getting a little tummy! :)
3 weeks!
Dad gets all the good snoozes!
big bad 3 week old baby :)
3 weeks 2 days! He loves sleeping all sprawled out haha!
All ready for witchapalooza. 3 weeks 5 days!
Our little family at witchapalooza!
Addy giving kisses at cornbelly's! 3 weeks 4 days!
Cornbelly's :)
Cute cousins!
Sleepy head slept the whole day!
Aunt Kami torturing poor little Asher at witchapalooza! haha!
Cornbelly's! :)
4 weeks old:
This week is still only half way over so nothing super exciting has happened! Today Asher is exactly 1 month old and I have my follow up appointment with Dr. Bierer. We are also going to carve pumpkins tonight with the Bolton's and again on Saturday with my family! Other than that Asher has just been growing and growing and being such a good baby! His confusion between night and day is slowly getting better and he is more loved every day. :)
4 weeks and 1 day :)
exactly 4 weeks old :)
handsome little guy! :)
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