Friday, November 30, 2018

Everett's Story - Part Three

Part one of this series covered Everett's conception and pregnancy. Part two covered his birth. They can be found here and here. This post will cover his 1st week.

The rest of Friday was a blur of nursing and napping. Saturday Summer drew me a herbal bath... so amazing! Sunday more relaxation. It was awesome. We didn’t announced to the world. We just wanted to soak up the newness all to ourselves. Summer was the only one who held him other than me in the 1st 24 hours.
We both practiced kangaroo care for his 1st week. Sierra held him and Deacon came in and got to nurse with him on day 2.

Raiden got him for the first time on day 3.


Monday we had a midwife come and do a newborn and tie assessment, metabolic and heart screening and a latch check.

Tuesday was our first outing.
I was a little nervous because we were going to the Office of Vital Statistics to register his out of hospital birth. You never know how people are going to react when you tell them you birthed without a midwife... on purpose. They were great though. I also went to the chiropractor and got a massage and an adjustment, and we ate out at Planet Thai.

Tuesday(4 days old) we also started EC or elimination communication. We started cueing when he peed and pooped pretty much from day 1. We kept him in a flat diaper with no cover so we would know when he was going and change him right away. We quickly noticed that he didn’t pee in his sleep most of the time and that he would get upset and squirm before he would go. So by 4 days old his patterns were so apparent we decided to just go ahead and start offering the potty. We got our first catch 1st try.

Wednesday, Aunt Tricia(adopted Aunt) stopped by with bagels... lots of bagels. I ate the last one Saturday. They were so yummy. Then Thanksgiving our friends Serah and Jeremiah, and Lynette and Josh came over with their kids to celebrate the holiday.

Joshua(oldest and youngest)

Pretty amazing 1st week. It has been a dream. We will be having a Sip and See at 2 weeks to introduce him to the rest of our friends and family.


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