Sutton Week 2

The second week has flown by for sure. It is much the same as the first. Some days we get moving fast and I feel great. Other days I wake up feeling like I get hit by a truck and I struggle to get up and moving. I don't even mind the wake up call every 2-3 hours. It seems that the hardest part this time around has been the slow recovery from the pain of the C-section matched with the pain I have experienced breastfeeding. I was still so swollen up until day 10 or so. I could hardly pull up any pair of pants and flip flops left indention in my feet (it was that bad). However, within 3 days I found that I was having some night sweats and dropped 15 pounds up to now. I know that was the easy part. The rest of the weight will now be a challenge. I am grateful for the immediate help from hormones and my body stabilizing because it was getting to feel like none of the weight was going to come off. Last Friday I went and visited with a lactation consultant. With Crawford I felt like I had an internal struggle with breastfeeding. I knew things were going well from the beginning from a pain standpoint and a supply standpoint but I was all alone and didn't really realize how helpful they could be. This time I wanted to fix the pain as fast as possible and start building a supply for when I go back to work. The girl I met with was sooo empathetic and supportive. It was soo wonderful to talk to someone who truly knew what I was going through and wanted to help me. I felt sooo much better once I left there. The good news was Sutton was gaining weight just fine. The bad news is I was still in too much pain to be 10 days out from giving birth. She wanted me to immediately start supplements to increase my supply. She also suggested pumping twice a day just to increase some supply. She wanted me to have a lump looked that was causing a lot of my pain. This was the same lump that the doctor found worrisome while I was pregnant. I made an appointment with the doctor and after an exam he said everything looked fine and that the glandular tissue was just increasing in size and amount and probably contributing to my pain. During the day the baby was every mother's dream. She eats and sleeps like a little angel. At night, it seems like my increasing discomfort is what wakes me up initially and then I wait for her to wake up so I am not getting as much rest as I should be. I know since Brad is home I should probably rest a lot more during the day but it just doesn't seem to happen.

 

 

The little angel will sleep just about anywhere She will sleep in her car seat, bassinet, the swing, the pack and play, and the bouncer. I remember not even being able to take a shower while Craw was in the bouncer because he screamed the whole time. Again, she is a pleasant surprise and true delight.

When she does wake up or seem fussy she seems to do best on little walks around the house or on the back porch.

 

Craw has really seemed so unaffected by her presence. He still plays as he always did. He loves finger painting on the porch, riding his jeep, pulling his wagon, going to the pool, and playing with the girls next door.

I have really embraced just holding the baby as much as I can.  This summer will fly by and I will be back at work before I know it.

 

Hope and Carter, Bobby, and Amy brought over pizzas one night and the kids had a ball playing in the playroom and outside on the jeep. Hope just loves her baby cousin. She asks sweetly to hold her and always asks questions about her. It is so sweet!

I am still trying hard to get the munchkin to take a paci. She seems to be taking this green soothie paci the best of the options I have tried.

I try to get out and walk with her every day. Even if it's 15 minutes I have found that getting us both out moving is good for my mood!

On Saturday, Alexis and Brittany (and baby Kaitlyn) drove to Greenville for a visit. Kaitlyn is 3 weeks older that Sutton. It was soo sweet of them both to drive all of the way here. I am so grateful for our friendship that has spanned 10 years now. We just rocked the babies and caught up on life.

 

I hope these two will be lifelong friends that can show off this picture from when they were newborns!

 

We even pulled out a bottle of wine to celebrate. It was so nice to have them here and again to come all the way here to see us was just so overly sweet.

 

On Father's Day we spent the afternoon at Nana and Papas. The kids played in the bounce house and with bubbles. I got to sit outside and enjoyed watching them play. Sutton was passed around from Amy, Hope, and Joretta and it was nice to enjoy the outside with the other kids.

 

Happy Father's Day Brad I will never forget the way Craw says Daddy I love you because you are my bessssst friend. Melts my heart.

Around day 12 Sutton started to spend more of the day awake. She again will sit in the bouncy seat and go on walks but it is tougher to find ways to keep her occupied until it's time to eat. It seems like if the girl is awake she wants to eat!

This was after my doctor's appointment. I had my incision checked and the lump looked at. We were gone 2.5 hours and Sutton didn't make a peep. She got home ate and was out again!

 

We usually give the kids baths at the same time. Craw then crawls into our bed to watch an episode of paw patrol. I asked him if Sutton could lay with him and he said yessss..so I put her on his shoulder and he just kept watching tv.

 

I love our nighttime routine with Craw. He will say things like "family cuddle time" and he is just so sweet and loving

We got Craw pumped up for the World Cup soccer match. He was cheering for USA.

We see the "little girls" as Craw refers to them every day. They love riding in Craw's truck and playing in the playroom. We pulled out the sprinkler one night and they had a ball running through it.

 

The number one thing Craw asks to do on any given day is to go to the train museum. The train museum is downtown and has about 14 model trains that go around a display. He absolutely loves it and literally asks to go almost every day.

 

While we are still adapting to less sleep and lots of sitting around and feeding, we are really enjoying this summer together as a family. Sutton is precious and Craw is always keeping us laughing. We took Sutton to the doctor today (at 2 weeks old). She is up to 8 lb 1 oz (which is almost a half pound more than the doctor was even looking to see so he was thrilled). She was running a fever with the head thermometer so she had to have a rectal reading done (which we have never experienced in our 3.5 years at parents)...she did not have a fever but it sure did get her awake and it was sad to see. We are soo thankful she is gaining weight and looks healthy. We will go back at a month for another check up.