Highlights of Life

new addition to family

we gave birth to another baby.  Baby boy this time.  He is a gorgeous little fellow, who seems to have a sweet disposition, but a rather strong personality.  His birth was riddled with complications.  He was breech, and I went into labor without realizing it, and presented to emerg, 7 cm dilated and in active labor.  They did an emergency c-section on me, and the fellow who cut me open didn’t take out all of the placenta, and I lost a LOT of blood.  The resident did manual D &C’s for over 10 times during the night ( post c-section), and it was horrendous.  That is one hospital I never want to go back to ever again.  Incompetence of the physicians were everywhere.

Then baby got discharged with jaundice, then went onto to develop umbilical cord infection (thank God – literally – for my mom who cared for the cord and helped me get rid of the infection and pus), then got an extremely bad case of thrush, followed by blood in the stool (probably due to a milk protein allergy), followed by a bad case of reflux (often showing up as projectile vomiting on a daily basis).  Things seems to be subsiding somewhat, but I’m exhausted and so is hubby.  Poor 1st born child is crying out for attention these days.  sigh.

I love my children to bits, but I forgot how exhausting things can be sometimes.  But I do love the kids.  I’m not super happy with the name we gave him.  Part of it is that we never got around to reconsidering what to name him as with the bleeding in hospital left me so weak, I ended up going with whatever we had kind of thought of previously.

Now looking back, I wish I had given his middle name to be Nehemiah.  I just realized I blogged about Nehemiah many moons ago, and the type of man and character he had.  Clearly my memory is going pretty bad, as I completely forgot.  Sigh.  again.

oh well.

But baby’s 1st name is something that I’m not 100% satisfied with.  But if we change it now… I feel like I will burden the little guy with 2 birth certificates.  sigh again.  :(

What to do…..

hum….

I am not too sure yet.