Settling in at home

We were finally discharged from the hospital on Friday afternoon. The morning was very long, because we were essentially sitting around and waiting. One of my doctors wanted to do one more test, but the frustrating part was that it was very unlikely that anything would change as a result of the test- but still we had to wait. Finally all results were in, Jason & I were both given clearance, our set-up of him in the car seat was approved & Brad had made several trips to the car to load our belongings.

We exposed Jason to his first shopping trip on the way home. We needed some groceries & I had to get my prescription filled at the pharmacy. He did very well. When we got home we introduced Logan to our newest member, then immediately had to feed Jason. As you can see, Logan was not too far away.

Grandma & Grandpa were watching Sydney for us, so they brought her home & stayed for supper. Sydney has been very good this week & I don't think we could have asked for her to behave any better through this transistion. She is very good with Jason & she is so far doing very well when she has to "wait" for anything or cannot do anything to Jason that she chooses.

Friday night I got a bit of a fever again, but my milk also started to come in- so I am not sure if the two were related. Now my temp is back to normal & I am waiting for my rock hard breasts to disappear. Prior to Jason being born I had finally made the decision that I was going to breastfeed. It was not an easy decision for me because my experience with Sydney was not very successful for either one of us & caused a great deal of "emotion" in our house which meant that it could not have been fun for Daddy either. But, I knew that I would not be happy with myself if I did not take this opportunity with the new baby.

However, on the Monday night when they came to me in ICU to see if I wanted to breastfeed & they would arrange for someone to come an pump for me every three hours it was more than I could bare. I decided then that with everything that my body had been through & that I still had to go through I was not going to add my emotional rollercoaster of breastfeeding to it. So, I said no & am sticking with that decision. It is not what I planned before the baby, but feel it is the best decision for all of us now that Jason is here.

So on Friday night, while I was "nursing" my temperature Jason and I had a nap on the couch. Essentially he was very good all day, went to bed at about 9pm & was up about every 3.5 hours through the night. I have trouble getting out of bed, so Brad was doing the night feedings & things went smoothly until 4am. At this wee hour of the morning Jason gave us a pretty good scare. We heard this loud coughing noise come from Jason's room, then silence, then he started to scream. When we went in it looked like he was having trouble breathing because he was so congested & "phlegmy" in his throat. It took awhile to soothe him & get him calm, but finally we managed it. However, I knew I was not going to get any sleep with him in his room so I went to the couch with him so that I could have him sleeping in a reclined postion with me. He slept until 7am & then was good all day.

Nana is here for the week to help us out & I am very thankful that she is going to help us. On Sunday, Aunt Kim, Uncle Pete & Regan are coming to meet Jason so we are looking forward to seeing them too.