Grammie and Pops

So Grammie is still not geting better. Dr says that her organs are all still slowly shutting down. They do not expect her to last the week.

Then we got a call from a lady in Ocean Springs, MS that Pops was at her house. Apparently he went up to her door and when she asked him who he was he asked her where he was. Alzheimers at its best, *sigh*.
She called an ambulance and Beau, Derrick, Jeannie, and Randy all drove up there to get him and bring him home. Oh and did I mention he wrecked his car along the way? (BTW Ocean Springs is about 2 hours from where we live). I think its time to take the keys...

Hasn't been a great week for the family.

But Jacob is doing wonderfully, I love my little man!

Cabbage Leaves, Ice Packs, and Beau's Grammie

So drying out the girls is not going well. I have been alternating stuffing cabbage leaves and ice packs down my bra in hopes that something will take the pain away. But so far, nada. This hurts like hell!

On another note we just received word that Beau's Grammie is very near death, she may not make it through the night. Even if she does she will most likely be placed in hopsice until she passes. Please say prayers for her if you do that sort of thing. And pray for Beau and his family too, please. Beau's mom has sacrificed a lot these past few years taking care of her by herself she will need all our love and thoughts to get through.

Thanks,
Holly

Say Bye-Bye to the Girls

So today is the last day for pumping. Tonight we bind the girls up and hopefully by Monday they will be good to go. I can't say that I will miss pumping. While I have loved giving Jacob the benefits of breastmilk I have to say that I am tired of pumping all the time. It will be nice to have the girls back to myself again. I do have enough stored to still give him a bottle of breastmilk a day for about another month or so.

Other than that things are chugging along. Jacob is sleeping through the night now. He has been doing that for about 3 weeks or so. Goes to bed between 8 and 10 and gets up between 5 and 6. It's been nice to get some sleep. I return to work on July 13 so the sleep will be a big help.

He also has discovered his hands. He can follow me and Beau with his eyes for long periods of time. Is sitting with help. Can lift his shoulders and chest up while on tummy. He is also starting to enjoy his rattles. My little boy is growing up, I wish I could slow this age down for a while and just enjoy him.

What a difference sleep makes

Last night we gave Jacob his breast milk bottle at 7:45 and added 1 ounce of formula to it (to try to get him used to formula, I plan to stop pumping before I go back to work). He went to sleep around 9:30 and did not wake up again until 4:45. He then took another bottle and went back to sleep (this time in my bed) until 10:00 this morning. For the 1st time in 2 months I got a good nights sleep. I am so delighted!

I hope this is a sign of things to come!

BTW, have I ever mentioned what a good baby Jacob is? He is really just so sweet and happy 99% on the time. I am so very lucky to have him!

Jacob 7 week pictures

Here are the pictures we had made yesterday:










Isn't he just the cutest little thing?

Newest Pictures of Baby Jacob

Here are some pictures of Jacob I had in my camera. Enjoy!

So hello...

Just popping in to say hi real quick. It is currently 12:30 in the morning here and I am waiting for Jacob to wake up so I can feed him and, hopefully, put him back down so I can get some sleep.

All is going well. We had his 1 month check up the other day. He currently weighs 11lbs 2oz and is 22 1/2 inches long. He is in the 95th percentile for height and weight. Yes, he is a big boy. The ped said and I quote "I don't know what kind of breast milk you are making but it is some potent stuff", LOL!

Speaking of breastfeeding for those of you that don't know Jacob never would take the nipple so we had to revert to pumping and giving it to him in a bottle. This has worked well for us but I am ready to stop. For one thing I am due to go back to work in a few weeks and do not want to pump there and for another I am tired of pumping every 3 hours. It severely limits what I can and cannot go and do. So anyway it is a personal decision to stop and I don't need any comments telling me how selfish it is b/c it's not. But anyway, I was unsure how to go about it. I had eliminated one pumping (the 3:00a.m. one) but when I tried with other times I would get badly engorged. Kelly G (my friends wife) is a nurse and she suggested that I try lengthening the times between pumping's and then try eliminating a session. So I'm going to give that a try. I never thought it would be so hard to stop, LOL!

On the whole sleeping issue. I basically get about 4 - 5 hours of sleep a day. And no, it is not consecutive sleep. It is usually a hour here and there. Needless to say, I am always tired. Not that I am complaining, I'm just wishing he would sleep a bit longer. From what I hear I have about 5-6 more months before I get a good 8 hours out of him. I know one day I will look back at these times and wish they were here again but right now it is hard...

So that's about it for my update. Hope all my friends in Internet land are doing well. Please know that I read all of your blogs faithfully but it is usually too hard to leave a comment with a baby in my arms. But I am hovering around reading...

See you all later.

Quick Hi

Just wanted to say a quick hi while Jacob is sleeping. Still haven't decided what to do with the blog. Quite frankly I don't have a lot of time to blog right now anyway so it may be a mote point anyway.

Jacob is doing good. I think he weighs about 10 pounds now. He also slept for the first time last night for over 5 hours. It was great to get some much needed rest.

I am kinda bored. All I do is feed him, burp him, put hm down for a nap and repeat. Think I may go to the mall today just to get out of the house. If it weren't for having to pump every 3 hours I would do more but it's hard to pump in public.

Got a new car last week. The convertible just wasn't happening with having to get in and out of the backseat. So we bought me a 2005 Camry. Not new, but new to me and it is very nice. Only had 60K miles on it and I'm happy with it. Now if I just had somewhere to go...

Well, I'm off to shower while he's sleeping. Enjoy these pictures we had made a week ago:

To blog or not to blog, that is the question

I realized the other day that it has been eons since I've updated this blog with any words. Mostly b/c I've been so busy but also b/c I'm not sure what to say. See I started this blog b/c of my desire to get pregnant and stay that way. It was an infertility blog, then we finally were blessed with Jacob and now I realize that it is not an infertility blog anymore, it is now more of a pregnancy/baby blog. It makes me sad that so many of you that started this journey with me are still waiting for the day that your blogs can change themes as well and I do have hope that eventually everyone will all get what they so desperately need. But I am still left with the dilemma of what to do with this blog.

I do not want to alienate my readers that are still struggling with the perils of infertility by continuing this blog under its present theme. Therefore I am thinking of starting a new one. One that concentrates on the successes and triumphs I have had over infertility by celebrating this new life. I do not want to feel guilty as I write about the struggles I am having with breastfeeding, or the frustration that arises from a lack of sleep. And yes, I do feel guilty writing about such things on this blog when there are so many who have yet to know such struggles and frustrations.

So I will leave it to you my dear readers; do you think I should start a new blog or continue to post under this one?

More Beautiful Pictures

Enjoy this gorgeous baby!