A Few More Pictures

A long weekend

Jennifer had a rough weekend.
She finally got some sleep last night and is doing great today.
We were not sure if the Jonathan was getting enough food, so we changed his schedule today.
Jen is nursing every 2 hours. He is taking to it good so far.
I was off today and will take tomorrow off as well to help establish a routine.

Insomnia Update

Jen did get some sleep last night.
Thank you for your prayers.
She felt much better today.
The last 2 days, Jonathan has been on a schedule minus a few interuptions when he had some visitors.
All in all, he is adjusting to his new schedule.
We have already moved Jonathan into the other room so that Jen is not disturbed by evey little noise that he makes.
Hopefully, he will adjust quickly to his new environment and sleep during the night.

Insomnia

Jen has been having a bought of insomnia the last few nights.
Pray that she would get some sleep.

If you have some practical suggestion on what you did to help with insomnia, please post a comment for Jen to read.

Thanks!

Doing Better

Jennifer's headaches have gone away or are a dull ache. She has had much more energy for which we are thankful.
Jonathan is an eating machine. Despite his intial problems with sucking, he really has no issues now! He wants to suck all the time.
The problem now is finding that balance of getting Jonathan enough food where he is happy, but not too much so that he spits some of it back up.
His fussiness seems related to his feedings for the most part.
Between 9 PM and 2 PM, it seems that this is his awake time. We are trying to change that. Time will tell.

A Trip to the ER

Last night, I took Jen to the ER (which is our Urgent Care location) because of her migraine.
They gave her an IV and some medications to help with migraines.
The medications made her jittery, so they gave her some Benadryl as well.
Well, the medications worked. She does not have the migraine any longer.
Pray that it does not come back.

We are tired, but Jen is happy to be functional again!

2/6 - A Long Night

Jonathan would not go to sleep last night, so Jen and I hardly got any sleep.
We think that he couldn't sleep that well because Jennifer has been drinking iced tea (which has cafffine in it) to help with the headaches.
We know that Jonathan was tired, but his body would not let him go to sleep.
Jen and Jonathan are both sleep right now.
A friend is coming over to give Jen a little bit of a hand today.

Jen gets tired really easy still. We have done several outings and she can usually last only 2-3 hours and then she is done.

2/3 - Update on Family

It has been a couple of days since I posted any information.
Jen has been able to get some sleep for which we are thankful.
We are both still tired and trying to adjust.
Jonathan had his first doctors appointment on Monday 2/1.
He is doing well.
Jen is has still been having headaches and we were wondering of the spinal headache was coming back.
We went to the doctor today and it is diagnosed as a migrane.
It is not a full migrane, but it still is very painful and is dibilitating for Jen.
We are thankful that it is not a recurrence of the spinal headache.
She got some medication to help with the migrane, so we will see how she progresses.

Pray that Jen's headache will go away and that we would have strength to persevere.

Pictures!

Here are a few pictures from before the birth and after:




Here is one of Jen with Sadie



This one is Jen at the hospital just before being induced



Our helpers from left to right: Christy and Cristina



Jen just before getting Pitocin



Little Jonathan on mom's lap



Here is little Jonathan waving hi!












More to come!