Appearances are Deceiving

Ethan may look calm and serene, but he's fooling you. He likes to scream bloody murder during diaper changes - to the point where he stops breathing. I guess that's farily common, but it still is very scary and I panic almost all the time . . . worried that he'll pass out. He's now added that scream to his baths and car rides when we stop at a light. So if we ran all the red lights and never stopped, he'd be just fine.

Ethan has arrived!

Ethan Michael Gerke was born on 3/13 at 8:05am. He weighed 9 pounds 11 ounces (turns out a c-section was the right choice since the doctor said his head wouldn't have fit through my pelvis without problems.

We've been home since Saturday and are doing well. I haven't had to change a diaper yet since I had a c-section and it's harder to move around . . . so Michael has done all that so far. :) He slept really good last night . . . from 9pm-5:30am - waking up to feed a few times and then going right back to sleep.

C-Section, here we come!

So the baby's head hasn't moved down yet and today it's resting on my hip, so the doctor needs to do a C-Section now . . . otherwise I risk rupturing my uterus if labor starts with him in the wrong spot. He still moves a lot, so he could move into position, but with only 3 days till the due date and he hasn't yet, he most likely won't.

So I had two options . . . #1 - tomorrow morning or #2 - thursday morning. I chose Thursday since I kinda panicked thinking I'd be going into surgery tomorrow morning - less than 24 hours away. I still needed to stock up on groceries, get things finished at work so I can pass them off without any stress, etc.

But now I'm going to be stressed about having a C-Section for 2 more days, so I should have just gone with tomorrow. Oh well.

So my baby boy will be born on his actual due date - I read that only about 5% of babies in the US are actually born on their due dates . . . but I don't think mine counts since I scheduled it.

We're going to WinCo tonight to stock up on groceries and then I'll do my best to clean up . . . can't really do too much myself since I can't bend over to pick anything up. And the kitchen is Michael's zone to clean, so I'll leave that for him.

Trying to be patient

So the Doctor said the baby hasn't dropped enough yet to be close enough to being born :( I'm so ready to be done being pregnant. I'm barely sleeping and think I'll probably get more sleep once the baby is born than I am now. Last night I got 4 hours of sleep (waking up every hour to flip sides).

The baby's room is done - minus crib sheet so far since Mom has to make those herself since the crib we're using is about 50 years old and no store sells sheets that size. The crib was the one my dad slept in when he was a baby as well as what my mom used for me and my siblings . . . kind of a tradition. But once he grows out of that smaller crib, then I'll switch to a regular sized one.