Jan 26
Today is Stacey my oldest niece's 22 birthday. Weird. I miss her and I really want for her to meet my son...Ah, well the time will come for that eventually.
Song and the kids left today. Song was meeting someone at 10 so they took off pretty early. I was kind of sad to see them go. However, once they were gone it was quiet in the house. Eli and I both finally exhaled. This is the first real time since Martyn has come home, that we've been home during the day and with no prospect of any more visitors for a few days. I think we both kind of felt like briefly, "what the heck do we do now?" We figured it out though...we just rest and enjoy the boy!
He is so awesome!
We also gave Martyn his first bath (though technically it was his second bath since he was born under water). He was not exactly happy about it it first, though he did calm down and relax once he realized the water was warm and felt nice. I took a sitz bath with some herbs the midwives gave me to help heal my bottom up, and put the baby bath in the tub with me. I'm glad Eli was there to assist. Martyn totally pooped in the towel while Eli was holding him and drying him off, ha!
In the evening we had our first post-pardum check up away from the house, at the Tualitan Birth Center. I was really looking forward to seeing Tracy and Lindsey too. It was Martyn's first car ride away from our house. (His first car ride was from the birth center to our house on his birthday) There was some silly fender bender on 217 that made us late.
The whole check up was really good. One of the questions Tracy asked me was how I was doing emotionally. I thought over all I was doing pretty well....Eli piped in though, and pointed out realistically that I was pretty weepy at the drop of a hat. Which is true. But aside from the other night when I was all smacked up from the engorgement, over all when I'm weepy, it's joyfully weepy...I just love the baby so much. I love my family so much...Those feelings tend to just be really over whelming for mama sometimes!
Martyn was back up to birth weight pretty much (off by one oz.) They gave us this really cool little foot print birth certificate, which I'm going to have my other apprentice sign, and then I'm going to frame it and hang it in the baby stuff room...or maybe in our room, it's so cool!
He also has a little raw spot on the inside of both of his legs, Tracy put some Golden seal on his belly button and on the little raw spots to help them all dry up a bit more. I need to get some diaper butt cream to put on that after it dries up some. Maybe I'll try that kind that Song had...she seemed to really like it for her kids.
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