One Sick Baby :(

Daxton was released from the hospital around 7pm tonight. He had been there since 12:30 sunday afternoon. Friday Drake was sick...throwing up. Just happened to happen at the mall...while I'm shopping for Nick's birthday and trying to feed the baby. Then he threw up again. Out in the parking lot a couple more times...on the way home a couple times. We get home Xandria goes to bed...not a good sign. I went in her room after a bit and she opened her eyes and made a funny face. I asked her if she was okay and she said she was going to get sick, so off she ran to the bathroom. Great. They were off and on only a couple more times and by bedtime were pretty much fine. Saturday was Nick's birthday. We dropped the older kids off with my parents and took the baby with us shopping at Gurnee. He was fine until about 9:30 pm when we were at the last store he puked on me...all over! I told Nick that looked like all of his bottle he had. Nick said not quite and sure enough we were going out the door and there went the rest of it all over me. Nice. We got home and he was sleeping...Nick put on his pajamas and just put him in bed since he stayed asleep. He did get sick a couple times when he was sleeping, which freaked me out...I would hear it and jump out of bed...Nick of course doesn't hear a thing. He didn't wake up until 8 am to eat!! I kept waking up at night watching him and touching him so he would move. When he finally did wake up Nick fed him, but he only ate about 4oz and then he threw that up after awhile...same thing at his next feeding. Then he started to have diarrhea as well. I told Nick he needed to go to the doctor and by this time I was sick and couldn't leave the bathroom! Nick took him to the ER and I got a message from him at 2pm saying "they want to keep him overnight." Of course I just started crying, even though he tried to reassure me that it was because he was dehydrated and they needed to keep an eye on him. They got into an actual room just before 5 and I wasn't able to get there until a lil after 6 cuz I had been so sick. I didn't feel quite as bad...not getting sick continously, but still felt horrible. I was just going to stay a few hours and go home and rest, but around 9:30pm Nick got sick and sick and sick. So I told him to go home and I would stay. Slept in the chair/bed with the baby...he would not sleep in that crib and I was happy to have him next to me. He continued to get better this morning and they removed his IV around 11 and he ate formula then and was able to hold it done. A couple more formula feedings and he was ready to go home!! He has gotten sick once since he's been home...but I don't know if I fed him too soon or what. That's what I'm hoping it was. I'm just nervous about the next feeding now! It's good to be home...tomorrow the older ones will be back home...my parents have had them, thankfully. It's been one tough weekend for sure! And I will have to post about the NOT SO GOOD leave from the hospital! lil guy in the big metal crib :(
snuggles with daddy
poor lil man with the iv
i think he slept long enough in there just for me to get this pic. his iv machine

From The First Week Home

Three days old...

Six days old
One week old...
These are just a few of my favorites that I took from his first week!

Family and Sibling Pics

The day we brought baby home and the kids had just gotten home.

Now a family of six! Holy cow!! (notice how Drake has his truck sitting on the baby)
Xandria was ALL about the baby and could NOT wait to hold him!!
Xavier was quite proud and excited to hold and feed him!
My lil Drake meeting his baby brother for the first time. Aww.
He wasn't too sure of him the whole time he visited...until he was going to leave, then he got up and was peeking in his crib just staring at him. Made me feel like he won't hate me too much for no longer being the baby :)

Meet Our New Sweetie...

Last shot of the belly @6am August 21
Daxton James 8lbs 4oz 19 1/2inches 5:59 pm August 21!! Fresh from the oven :)
mom dad baby
sweet fuzzy baby hair

He's ours and he's healthy and so sweet :) We're glad to finally meet him and everything is going well. Mommy is feeling good and daddy is helping out with making sure she has gotten rest. The older siblings are excited and loving. More pictures and updates soon...it's feeding time.

In Seven Hours...

We are heading to the hospital to be induced!! 6 AM! Ugh...not good with early rising! Nick and I went to the doctor today. The ultrasound was first. He's head down and facing the right way...so no last pictures of his face in utero. He IS still a boy though...ha ha. He still has alot of hair. He was practicing breathing and his heartrate was 141. His fluid at 8. Didn't get to find out what his weight might be because the technician said she wasn't told to find out. Okay, well I want to know. Oh well, guess we will be totally surprised. Then I had a Non Stress Test for 20 minutes. Baby looked good. She told me I even had a contraction...I had no clue. After that it was time to talk to the doctor. She checked me and said cervix is still thick, but I'm dilated to 2. It was pretty painful when she was checking me! She said we could go in the morning and start Pitocin or wait a week. Ugh...a week is good for me :) But the more we talked about it, the more tomorrow sounded like the best option. Since his fluid is on the low end of normal...it's only going to decrease from now. If we wait until next week then everything will be five days older. I also have to be treated for Group B Strep (it showed up in my urine last week) and since I'm allergic to the medicine that doesn't take as long, I have to be treated with medicine that takes a little longer...so it's better to not be in full on labor. So, I'm FREAKING out just a little!!! Works out nice because Angela has tomorrow and wednesday off work, so the kids can be with her. Funny because she told me last week I needed to go into labor on monday! Felt bad dropping Drake off over there. It was already bedtime and I told him he was going to stay there and go to bed and he said "I wanna go with you to your house" and didn't want to get out of the car. He was playing with my hair when he was saying it also. But, I talked to him more and when I left he was waving and saying "I going to be good." :) The other two were like "see ya mom" ha ha. Xandria had open house at her school tonight. She's so excited to start school!! Well, I need to pack my bag, no of course that still hasn't been done and get some sleep if possible. Wish me luck!!

WE'RE HAVING A...

Yep, that's our newest boy! I was a little surprised because I thought it would be 2 boys and 2 girls, but I had a feeling from the beginning it was a boy. Wow, 3 boys and 1 girl. Guess Xandria will get to be the princess for awhile longer, ha ha. The ultrasound tech asked if we wanted to know the sex, I said "yes" and she asked what we thought first and we said "boy," since that's what they thought the baby might be at the last ultrasound. She confirmed and showed us his parts and said there's no doubt about it! When I got home I put all the ultrasound pics in an album and put that picture last to show the kids. I showed Xavier them first and he said "I'm so lucky!" when he read the "boy" part. Next I showed Xandria...she was so hoping for a sister. We got to the last picture and I asked her if she could read what that said, she said "no" and I told her it says "boy." She said "What?! I said I wanted a sister!" But, she got over it after a minute and is just excited we're having a baby...though she did ask if we could decorate the room with kitties. There's more ultrasound pictures below.