A Good Night

Here we are on what I believe is day 3 of Jack - maybe day 2 in terms of complete days. In any case I was prepared to have a rough night, since I'm here alone (John having primary care of the OTHER child - turns out we have two now). Jack was super hungry all afternoon yesterday and didn't seem in the evening like he was going to be all that keen on going to sleep for any increments, let alone 3 hours at a time. But as soon as I decided I'd get some early sleep to prepare, he fell into a clockwork schedule - fed at 8, 10, 1 and 4 which sounds like a lot but was in face pretty perfect, as far as second nights go. So I slept, he slept, all was good.

Mom (LaLa) spent the day here yesterday, and will be spending a lot of today as well, which is great. Uncle Francis is also coming, and I think big sister Lucy should be back this afternoon.

Okay, time for us to rest - come visit!

B

Photos

Just going to add some photos - I also will make a picasa slideshow today of all the shots I have so that those of you NOT on facebook can see them as well.

Jack!

So! Jack is here. Nameless for his first few hours, he finally decided that Jack Stanley Schaeffer was the way to go. Technically named after his dada (John) on the birth certificate, he'll just go by his nickname.

In any case, everything went fine, everyone is still doing fine. John was here most of yesterday and Lucy was with her paternal grandparents - although she did get to come down in the afternoon to meet her baby brother! She was a bit wary but stared at him with giggly smiles while he sat with us on the bed, so hopefully that's a positive sign. I think she was probably fairly overwhelmed that he was finally NOT in my tummy anymore. We'll see how visits go - she was also fairly concerned that I wasn't coming home with her, but oh well. Part of growing up.

So Jack and I spent the night alone here together - he spent much of it in the nursery since they don't want to have babies spend the whole night alone with a c-section mommy - if something were to go wrong, I can't jump out of bed to get him. But he was in every couple of hours to eat, so we got to see each other.

I'll be posting more pictures although uploading is being pretty annoying (as in not working great), and I'll try to do another post later in the day.

Emails and calls and visits are welcome - I'll be here for a few more days - write to me (schaeffer.becky@gmail.com) if you want to come on by!

B

Still here, still pregnant

So the last time I posted was September. Oh well. Baby #2 (as I'm sure you know if you are reading this) was due on Thursday (7/1), so I figured it was time to start up again, since updates are easier this way I think. Baby boy Schaeffer WILL be born by Wednesday at the latest, so never fear. Since Lucy was a c-section, I am going for a VBAC this time, which I'll let you google on your own so as to not get too graphic. Although beverly hospital is fairly supportive about encouraging this, they don't want to let you go more than a week after your due date if you are a VBAC so I'm scheduled for then if nothing has happened on its own. They also don't like to induce you if you're a VBAC because pitocin makes your contractions way strong and this has a risk of - well, upping the risk. Anyway enough techno birthy talk. Its happening soon regardless - and if he's born on Wednesday we will have the SAME BIRTHDAY which is pretty hilarious.

Anyway I will post more later, but I don't expect many developments the way I'm feeling....maybe I will find some cute pictures of Lucy since the last ones I put on the blog are from like almost a year ago...