Garrett at 4 Months

Ok, I am a pretty bad blogger! I've gotten an iPhone app, so hopefully it will help keep me up to date! Garrett us turning 4 months on Thursday! Time has flown by. I am wanting to keep an update of his milestones for if I ever get around to a baby book!

He is 14lb 8oz and 24.5 inches long! He'll eat about 6 ounces 5-6 times a day, still formula only. He is a crazy thumb sucker (just like his mama :). He'll put his left hand thumb in his mouth and rub his head with his right hand. No rolling over yet, but because he resist all tummy time with a fiery passion. As soon as he's on his back it's happy time. We keep thinking he'll get mad enough to role over at some pout ;-)

Poor baby is still in his brace. We go back July 1st for the 3 month check up with this nighttime brace (doesn't include the 8 weeks in the first brace.) hopefully we will get it off them with no more issues!

He can hold his head really steady and just looks around and watches everything. He laughs and smiles all the time at us and is generally a very happy baby. He wakes up grinning in the morning and goes to bed easily at night. He sleeps from about 8:00 until 5:00 each night and has been since around 2 months. He is spoiling us with what a happy baby he is! Randy and I can sit and watch his faces for hours, it never gets old...

Love

Was it all worth it? I think back on everything we went through. The years of trying, heartache, finanicial, failure. The joy of the pregnancy followed by the loss of his twin. The past 3 years have been a rollercoaster. And i would do it all and so much more just to see his smile.

His unbridled joy on his face when we wake him up each morning. Everytime I pick him up from daycare he grins from ear to ear. I just can't imagine loving him more if I tried. Thank you Lord
for all we experienced. It makes me appreciate even more what we have.

Garrett Has Arrived! Part I

Wow, just wow.  That is really all I can say about the past half week.  It has been a whirlwind of emotions - shock, joy, excitement, anguish, terror - everything!  I wanted to share the full story of what happened instead of bits and pieces to people when I speak to them.  So here goes!

I had a routine doctor's appointment scheduled for Wednesday, February 9.  I had already begun my weekly OB appointments, and this one included an ultrasound.  At the last maternal fetal specialist appointment, we were concerned over weight and location, so this ultrasound was just to make sure he wasn't too small and to check his location (breech or not.)  Randy had to go to Port Barre for work, but he was going to attend the last ultrasound with me just to get to see it one last time before Garrett was born.  We went back at about 10:45 and began the ultrasound.  As soon as she put the wand on the top of my belly near my ribs, there his head still was!  He was still breech with his head in my left ribs.  We hoped he had switched, but apparently he was content where he was.  My first thought was 'well, looks like we'll be scheduling a c-section today.'  I knew when I went to Dr. Lee we would go ahead and schedule the section for the 39th week because he was very unlikely to turn at this point.  Her next evaluation was his size - around 6 lbs so that was great!  Even better when she began her next evaluation.  She began to measure the pockets of fluid and started making worried sounds.  Those hmm, let me check this kind of sounds.  She then asked if I had been leaking amniotic fluid.  I had no idea if I had, or even if I could have known.  At this point I am just trying to not wet myself every time I sneeze!  She said that my amniotic fluid was below a 5 so most likely I was having a baby today. I might have blacked out for a small minute, can't remember because at this point time seemed to speed up.  She left to call the doctor and about all I could get out to Randy was "Well, I'm glad you came with me today!" and "I'm not ready to be cut open!"  I thought we would be scheduling a c-section today with Dr. Lee, not scheduling the c-section FOR today!  She called Dr. Lee and then sent us up to see her right then - did not even finish the rest of the ultrasound.  My legs were a little wobbly as I headed to the elevator.


We went into the waiting room area for Dr. Lee after giving the nurse our paperwork.  Normally my waits have been less than 5 minutes before a nurse has me, then less than another 5 minutes before seeing Dr. Lee.  Today was the OPPOSITE.  It was about 15 minutes before getting called back and another 10 before seeing Dr. Lee.  This entire time I am about to lose it because I'd had not prepared at all for this!  I was only 36 weeks 4 days and didn't even have my suitcase finished packing!  His clothes were in a hamper waiting to be washed, my video camera was at home!  These thoughts kept running through my head as this sweet old lady decided she wanted to talk and talk and talk to me.  Maybe I had that deer in the headlights look and she was trying to talk me back from the ledge.  :)  When Dr. Lee came into the room, the first words out of her mouth were "It looks like we get to meet that baby boy today!"  Insert heart rate acceleration here.  My fluid had dropped below a 5 (it was 3.8) so it was at dangerous levels so it was a must deliver now situation.  After thinking back on it now, God must have decided I really was a weenie and couldn't handle pain, so he gave me the quickest most worry free way of delivering - an immediate unplanned c-section.  It was around 11:30 and the doctor was scheduling my c-section for 1:30.  Let the panic begin...