Mr. Man

Mr. Man has arrived.  He technically arrived a week ago.  I have been a bit busy thus the delay in posting.

I have affectionately started calling him Mr. Man and I think it's appropriate for him because he kind of looks like a little old man.

He's a sweet baby.  I recognize that he's only been with us for a week but he's already more content in life than Miss M was until she turned about a year. Well, that's probably an exaggeration...maybe she was more content at 7 months but she was not a content baby.

We got up around 2 a.m. on Wednesday, May 8th.  We drove to the hospital to start the induction.  I had to be pumped full of an antibiotic for four hours before they could start the pitocin.  The doctor broke my water at 8:45. I was going to wait until 9 a.m. to request the epidural but by 8:50 I was ready for the anesthesiologists.  They arrived and had the epidural going by 9:30.  I was in a lot of pain by 11:00.  I requested another boost of the epidural shortly thereafter. I was having extreme back pain which was not going away with the epidural.  The doctor came back in around 11:30 and Mr. Man arrived at 12:02 p.m.

Mr. Man was 8 lbs and 7 ozs.  We have no idea how long he was when he was born. I need to remember to ask when we go to the pediatrician next time.  He came out face down which caused some facial bruising so he looked blue when he came out. It was a bit disturbing but he shaped up pretty quickly.

It took us a few hours or a day to decide officially on a name but the birth certificate people came around and a decision had to be made.

There may be a lot of photos in the next few posts because I couldn't decide.

 In this picture I think you can see how his face look blue.

A few hours later he wasn't as blue and he got to meet his first visitors. Grandma and Poppy drove in Tuesday to stay with Miss M. Aunt Nessie also came to stay. It is safe to say that the only thing Miss M went without for a few days was her momma.  Other than that she was a pretty spoiled girl. She deserved to be spoiled - her world just got rocked.

When everyone came to the hospital Tuesday evening Miss M was not impressed. She wouldn't even come into the hospital room. I imagine it was a bit frightening seeing her momma in a robe and in a hospital bed.

She came around but as you can see she didn't initially warm up to me rather she wanted to play with Aunt Nessie.  She didn't pay any attention to Mr. Man at all. I am not even sure she looked at him or she went out of her way to look away from him.

I took the advice of my sister in law and brought gifts to the hospital for Miss M from Mr. Man.  We all know Miss M loves prizes. She did enjoy her prizes but still no love for Mr. Man.  When it was time for them to leave it was a bit rough. Miss M didn't want to go but she was brided out - probably by M&M's - and Aunt Nessie told us that she was fine a few minutes later and telling them how the baby got her prizes.  The book we're reading is one of the things that Mr. Man bought for Miss M.