Adventures in tra-la-la-la

Three days in and he completely owns me already. He’ll sleep in the cosleeper and the bassinet for his Papa but he’ll only sleep directly on top of me.

He’s only three days old…We’re calling the pediatrician in the morning but I’m really freaked out about it.

It really is the small things that make the world go ‘round.

There are few things as delicious as a Velveeta grilled cheese sandwich.

Success! We latched for the first time but now he only wants to sleep with his face parts in direct contact with my boobs. He isn’t using me like a pacifier and doesn’t even necessarily want it in his mouth but he better have obvious direct access AT ALL TIMES or else….

Finley James Schmidt decided to become an outside baby on his Daddy’s birthday after five days of labor. We’re madly in love.

Holy shit I see why people get the good drugs now. If Brad wasn’t such an incredible birthing partner I would have given up HOURS ago. The baby was caught on my pubic symphysis and we didn’t figure it out until about 6:00 today. So that was fun. Phone coaching from our doula helped give us some position ideas to overcome that and the baby moved and is now fully engaged in my pelvis. Hopefully we’ll have an outside baby soonish.

We went to get some dinner and I’m sure our waitress thought I had some sort of unfortunate condition.

I’m so happy I actually get to use the water birth tub to labor in at home.

Maybe, kind of, definitely having contractions.