My happy baby!!

Connor is getting more liberal with those smiles of his! Here are a couple of my favorites from the last half of February:

Connor's first smile!!

This was one of Connor's very first smiles, and he is not even one month old yet!

He actually smiled at my mom a few days ago, but it took me a while to be able to catch one on film!

What a little cutie!! I am so happy that he is starting to interact with us more, things sure do change fast!!

Tummy Time!!

I started giving Connor tummy time today! He didn't like it all that much, but he was okay once I propped him up on a pillow. His big heavy noggin would tip him over after a few minutes though - here's a bit of a play-by-play:

First real check-up.

Connor had a Dr appointment this morning, it didn't go very well. I totally didn't like the Dr at all! Connor was just circumcised yesterday, so it was still bleeding a bit, and it wouldn't stop bleeding when I was changing him, so the Dr made me try to breastfeed him while holding on to his little willy to try and stop the bleeding. So there I am in the little office trying to feed him one handed- I've only been doing this for 11 days, so I am not good at it yet, and my boobs still hurt like crazy, my other hand is trying to "apply pressure" to Connor's little thing, but I am terrified of hurting him, and he is pooping everywhere!

And while I am doing all of this, I can hear the nurses talking outside the room about how they think the circumcision should have been done differently! Grr!

The bleeding didn't stop so I was told to call the Dr that did the procedure, and if I couldn't get a hold of him, to head in to the hospital. I called Derek on the way home to tell him what happened, and then tried to call Dr Mayo's office, but no one was answering so I headed off to the Sturgeon Hospital. The Dr. appointment was in Fort Saskatchewan, but I wanted to go to the hospital where Connor was born, and then Derek could meet us there.

We must have waited in the ER for three hours or so before we saw someone, and by that time the bleeding had completely stopped, but it was nice to be reassured that all was well anyway. And during all of this commotion, Connor's umbilical stump fell off, which was great, because I didn't like looking at that yucky thing!

So after one completely stressful day, all is well, and we head back home! I think this was sort of my way of learning that from this point on, there will always be something for me to worry about!

Oh- and we are totally getting a new Doctor!!

Connor's first 'surgery'.

Connor is 10 days old, and he got the ol' snip snip today. It actually went quite well. The worst part was when they strapped him down to the little table that had a baby shaped divit in it. It was called a "circumstraint". Seriously, that's actually what it was called! Anyway, Connor was more upset by being held down than by the actual procedure. He stopped crying right after they undid his arms. All in all it was over pretty quickly.

My baby is yellow!

Connor got pretty jaundiced in his first week of life. We have had him to the Dr a couple of times, and we supplemented with formula for about a week.

He got so yellow that I felt bad putting him in any yellow or orange clothes. Which of course, was pretty much all I owned because we didn't know he was a boy!

Here's my little yellow man!

Actually, he doesn't look as bad as I thought he did! That must be because he's in blue! ;)

Home Time!

After three days in the hospital, we headed home when Connor was two days old! I actually felt really good after the first day, so I was happy to get out of the hospital, but a little nervous to be without the nurses!




I got Connor all dressed up for his big trip home! I was absolutely terrified to shove a shirt over his head, but it went alright!