Heavy Weight!

Jacob was born a big boy at 9lbs, 13oz, but now he's just under 4 weeks old and is up to 12lbs, 3oz!! Most babies gain 3 to 4 oz a week, and little (not so little) Jacob has gained about a pound every week!!

Baby Shower

Jacob's baby shower was last night, Thursday the 19th. I can't believe he's already 3 weeks old...

The shower went well, Jacob slept through the whole thing even when his Grandmas and Aunties passed him to each other..

We ended up getting so many baby gift bags, I didn't know what to do with them...so I took pictures!! (Yea, yea, really cool, I know...)




Oh! I got a nifty little carseat cover handmade by Ashley. It took her 6 hours to make, and it works great! I just had to take a picture of it right away...lol

First Church Service

I was terrified about bringing Jacob to church, as I didn't want him getting mobbed, and what if he got hungry!?

Un-needed stress, we got Jacob to church and kept him with us the whole time and luckily we arrived a few minutes late so we managed to slip in pretty much un-noticed. = D



He also stayed sleeping the whole service, which made it nice as well..


Jacob also got to meet baby Moriah, Moses and Mitra's brand new little girl..

Random Pictures..of Jacob..hehe

First Bath!

Grandma came over and helped me give Jacob his first bath which went amazingly well. He seemed to enjoy it!


That is...until we took him out..


Luckily, his mommy calmed him down..

Thanksgiving

Other than a few quite trips to the store, Jacobs first major outing was to Grandma Cricks house for Thanksgiving dinner..






The whole family was there, and a few extras...Leah, Auntie Moe and Uncle Mike..

Daddy turns to mush..

Jeremy always had a hard time sleeping..until his little boy was around to nap with him..


Apparently this is a good way to keep Jacob warm..haha

Home at last!

We finally got to go home Sunday, October 1st. It was nice, but scary as well, there were no nurses around..haha

Once home, Jacob got the teddy bear daddy bought for him months ago..


He was still quite jaundiced unfortunately, but he did really well and didn't have to go under special lights or anything. And to think I didn't think he looked yellow at all..


Well, all I know is...he's adorable and worth every sleepless night..

Hosptial Pictures...and food..

It turned out that Jacob was jaundiced, so we had to make sure he ate often and had to put him in the sun whenever it shined in our room..




The food on the other hand, was at times, quite disturbing..I'm glad they included bread with the dinners..



A few more pics of Jacob at the hospital..

First Family Pictures

After an exhausting delivery, we finally had our little boy Jacob...
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I'm not pregnant!!

It seemed to take forever, but I'm not pregnant anymore, which is quite a relief, I was getting hugely swollen..

This is the morning my water broke...Tuesday, September 26th at 7am.

From there it was a longggg journey, in which I stayed at home labouring and being occationally monitored by my midwife. Jeremy was there for me the whole time and my mother was there sometime in the afternoon of the 26th.

After what seemed forever, we finally had to transport to the hospital at 12pm Wednesday, September 27th. I had planned to birth at home, but my midwife had two other ladies in labour at the same time so we all were at the hospital.

Once at the hospital, I was given Oxytocin(sp?) to help the contractions because I was "stuck" at 8 cm for a long time. Unfortunately, this drug made the contractions much more painful, and I had to have constant fetal monitoring. Close to midnight on Wednesday, I was finally allowed to start pushing and I pushed for about half an hour to an hour when they decided to check me again and found that the baby had not dropped down into the birth canal and also I had been pushing against part of my cervix which means..I was not fully dialated and had waisted a whole lot of energy I barely had..not to mention that because I pushed against the cervix, it became swollen.

My midwife was unable to determine position of the baby and called an OB for a second opinion. He also was unable to determine position because Jacob was so far up.

They asked me to fight the pushing urges and breathe through it (which was very hard!) and gave me the option of either having an epidural which might, but not deffinately bring the baby down, or to go for a C-section. As it had already been a long, long time, I was exhausted and completely ready for a c-section. I know I did all I could do.

When they finally pulled Jacob out at 2:08am Thursday, September 28th, it became clear that there was no way he would have come out the other way, so it was good that I went for the C-section.

Jeremy announced that it was a boy and I got to look over and see him and the first words out of my mouth were "that's NOT a newborn!" When they gave him to his dad and they held him against me (since I was too frozen and too weak to hold him myself) I proudly told him his name, Jacob Uriah Muckle.