Life Lately

So it's been a while and I missed a good year on my blog. I want to commit to blogging more so I can capture all the little moments of our lives. It's crazy how it all goes by so quickly. I forget the little stories and when William did things.

Since I last updated the blog, we've had an addition to our family! Connor James joined our little family on November 16, 2016. We are all so in love! He is perfect and completes our family.

As with William, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and they thought Connor would be big so I was induced at 39 weeks. We actually picked November 16 so that William's birthday is 10/14/14 and Connor's is 11/16/16. Kind of fun!

Connor's birth took a bit longer than William's. We got to the hospital at 6 a.m. They broke my water and started getting things going. It was a slow process. It wasn't painful but I was getting nauseous, which was horrible so finally around noonish I asked for an epidural. Like with William, the epidural only worked on one side except it was way worse this time. I had a "hot spot" as they call it on my right side that the epidural did not work on and when I bent over it hurt so bad. They ended up giving me anti-nausea medication, which didn't work, and I was starting to throw up but couldn't because it hurt too much to lean over...so they redid my epidural. I was so numb, I couldn't even wiggle my toes. That only lasted an hour before the pain started coming back. Thank goodness it was time to push.

So I pushed for three contractions or maybe two (I don't remember, it was not long) and he was there. So maybe TMI, but his little head was out, but the doctor wasn't there yet so I had to wait. The doctor made it though (unlike William's birth) and Connor was born in about one more push. Fun note: the nurse that delivered William was Connor's baby nurse. :) Her name was Alice. Also, the doctor that delivered Connor went to Indiana University. Matt liked that!

Funny story about his birth weight. The nurse said he weighed 7 lbs 9 oz. but the little card on his bassinet said 7 lbs. 0.5 oz. We just assumed they wrote it wrong. Connor's discharge papers had the lesser weight too and when we went for his first doctor's appointment, he was under 7 lbs. so doctor said he probably was smaller. So we're going with his weighed 7 lbs. 0.5 oz, was 20.5 inches long (just like William).

Connor is so easy going! He is just a happy little guy. I thought William was easy (well, after those first few months). Connor is just easy from the beginning....except for sleeping at night. It took us a good two months to be able to get him to sleep easily at night. He had his days and nights mixed up for a while; then refused to fall asleep easily at night (we'd be up until 2 a.m.!). But finally right after I went back to work (so about 10-11 weeks), he has finally gotten used to going to bed at night with us and for the most part is easy to put down for the night now...but even at 14 weeks, he is up once or twice in the night. Still it's a lot easier than it was.

William is the best big brother, even from the beginning. He hasn't been jealous, except a little with my mom and the baby, but not with Matt and I. In the beginning, he was a little rough, but he quickly learned to be gentle (there might have been one incident where William wanted to hold Connor and knocked him off the couch while I walked to the kitchen for all of 10 seconds). William wants to help all the time and calls Connor "my Connor." We often hear "Are you hungry Connor?" or William will want to hold "My Connor" and tickle him. It's the cutest thing ever.

I'll write more later on the specifics of the last three months. But welcome to the world, little Connor. You are loved so much!

A few pics from our first week:

Brothers meeting for the first time.