Hello, everyone!
As you all probably know by now, our baby was born on January 10 at 9:29am at Saint Alphonsus hospital. Dylan Jack Jenkins was 7lb 14oz & 20.5 inches long at birth.
And what an experience it was…David took me to the hospital close to midnight on the 9th after I noticed a trickle of amniotic fluid, and then my water broke at the hospital at 1:00am just when we thought they were going to send us back home. Of course, after that, the on-call doctor announced we wouldn’t be leaving the hospital without a baby! :)
So the natural child labor began…and once again, I had no epidural option since my platelet count was so low. After 8 hours of breathing through contractions (five hours that were particularly intense), the doctor announced that I would not be able to deliver Dylan naturally as planned but that I would need a cesarean since he was in the Frank Breech position. Later, she announced that our son has “buns of steel” since he fooled two doctors & a nurse into believing he was head down!
I had to have a platelet transfusion & later antibiotics from the cesarean incision, and I was in the hospital for four nights. But we made it through, and now we have a beautiful baby boy!
Ariel was so delighted to see her new baby brother. Her face just lit up when Grama & Grampa brought her into the hospital room to see us. She’s been such a great big sister—helping throw diapers away, burping the baby, getting clothing & blankets & showing lots of love to her new brother.
So far Dylan is much calmer than Ariel was as a baby. He is feeding & sleeping like a champ. We are quite pleased, though we’re still adjusting to life with two kids. It’s a big change!
We’re so lucky to have so much help from the grandparents & other family members, as well as lots of friends.
In other news, Ariel has mastered potty-training during the day! She figured it out just in the nick of time before Dylan was born, and she’s been keeping up with it despite the major change to her life. We’re still working on night time accidents, but that will come in time. We’re so proud of her!
That’s about all our news for now. We’ll continue to update the blog with major milestones as we find time---which is a bit more difficult these days.
Love to you all!
Tammy, David, Ariel & Dylan
Video of Dylan available here:
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