Caleb's First Night

We made it through our first night with our little guy. Our visitors all left before 7:30ish and we decided to start getting ready for bed since we didn't know how the whole night would go. Caleb let Mommy and Daddy sleep from 8-9pm before he was ready to eat again. After his feeding some nurses came in and helped me get up from bed and move around a bit more; easier said than done after a C-section. At about 10pm we were ready to be settled in for the night. Caleb was being a bit fussy so I fed him again, then laid him down. After about 10 minutes, the cries started up so we checked his diaper, and yes he was full. He laid down again for another 10 minutes or so before he started fussing again. Ben walked with him a bit, burped him and laid him back down. Still he didn't last more than 5 minutes before fussing. So despite not wanting to send him to the nursery Ben and I decided we needed a little sleep so we gave in. He was taken away at 10:30pm.

So I, of course, teared up as they took him out. I just had this fear of sending him to the nursery. What if they waited too long to bring him back to eat? Or even worse, if they supplemented him with a bottle instead of waking me up? I was able to get about 30 minutes of very restless sleep and by 11:18 I paged the nurse to bring him back in. I just couldn't get comfortable with the idea of him being away from us. Ben was sleeping quite well so I talked with the nurse about removing my Foley catheter so I could get in and out of bed without having tubes everywhere, and not having to wake Ben for every diaper change/feeding. It turned out Caleb had been quite fussy in the nursery too so I was glad to have him back with us. I feed him and just held him afterwards; apparently that was all he was looking for cause he slept like a champ after that. Besides a couple other feedings and some messy diapers (this boy can POOP!) he slept well until 4:30am when I finally decided to wake up Ben. At that point Ben felt much more well rested with the good 6 hours of sleep. We did another feeding and poopy diaper, then he slept for us until about 6-6:30am when he filled his pants again. So we have been up since, getting ready for our doctor to come in and check out my incision, give me permission to FINALLY get a shower, and then have Caleb's circumcision done. Here are some 24 hour old pictures of the little guy.

He has lots of expressions while sleeping :)

Again, we welcome visitors today to meet Caleb. We are planning to have our celebratory dinner at 6pm tonight so if anyone interested in coming could avoid the 5:30-7:30pm window we would appreciate it.

So while we wait, we sleep. :)