one week old

yesterday was a BUSY day. i had to go in and have my bp checked, it's up a bit, but managable. and the pitocin seems to have caused me a lot of swelling, along with the bp. today is better i think, each morning i see a few more pounds disappear on the scale, which is nice. i'm still pumping and really getting a good supply, we'll start trying to nurse tomorrow, with the boys in school i'll be able to give mikey my full attention to get us on the right track.

mikey also had a dr appt yesterday. it was almost 2 hours in there and i was just worn out after all i the running around. his billi count was down to 13 and his weight was only at 93% of his birth weight (6lb 13oz). so we had to go back today. that was fun with ALL the boys - NOT. i suppose it wasn't too bad, it just took forever again (about 90 minutes) so they get bored even with gameboys and hot wheels on hand. everyone kept saying i seemed so calm with 4 boys, not sure if that was a compliment to my mother skills, but i'm going to tell myself it was. anyway, mikey was still at 6lb 13oz, so no more loss, which is awesome. and his billi came down about 3 tenths of a point, not what i'd hoped for but as long as it's going down i'm happy. we go back thursday - thank goodness school starts back tomorrow. mikey is still only taking about 1oz at a feeding, we have had 3 feedings where he took 2oz. however, we are now able to wake him up enough to eat more often, so hopefully we'll just keep moving in the right direction.

chris is awesome, last night i got to sleep through the 1am feeding, when my alarm went off he came in and told me to just keep sleeping, he'd already fed and changed mikey and was just chillin' with him on the couch. he brought me a sweet sleeping baby sometime around 2am and i snuggled with him until it was time for his 3am feeding.

we did open house last night. that was insane. but the boys are ready and so am i, lol. tomorrow can't come quick enough. i'm ready for some quite time and a set routine.

as for me, i'm sooooooo on the fence about having that essure tubal sterilization done. not that i necessarily want another (any time soon at least) but i don't want it to not be an option, ya know. i'm just not ready to say "give me a permenant fix". i have 5 more weeks to decide what i'll do. so who knows.

i finally have a little down time today. which is nice. chris has to go to charlotte tonight for a class tomorrow, so mom and dad are going to come stay the night and help me with bath/bed time and getting everyone ready and off to school tomorrow. it's so nice to have such a super support system.

i think that catches us up. oh wait, mikey's cord fell off yesterday. i was in shock, neal and jacob seemed to take forever to lose theirs, zach's of course was removed at the NICU. it's so nice to have a cute little belly button instead of that stumpy clamped cord, lol.