A Special Memory

I have always known how very blessed I am to know my grandparents and share such an unbreakable bond with them. And I have always known how blessed I am to also know my great grandparents and recall memories spending the night at their house followed by sitting in the same seat every morning and great grammal pouring a heaping bowl of yummy apple jacks cereal, sleepies still in my eyes.


However the realization of such a blessing becomes forthright and overwhelmingly beautiful when your own son, no matter his age, meets his Great Great Grandfather.... I know fairytale endings are not reality, but I must say this blessing we have breathlessly ripped from a page of a fairytale and for this captured moment... breathed it in...

Everyday is a photo shoot!

 He got bored and wanted to be like daddy and play the xbox!

"Really mom...more picture taking"???

Oh how I love being a Mommy!

Usually this is how Rylan sleeps!

                                                    Daddy put his juice bottle with Ry while 

                                          I was getting ready so we could go out and run errands. 

                                      I laughed so hard when I saw this I HAD to take a picture!!! 

Rylan LOVES to stand up! (With daddys help of course! :-D )

.....My most precious blessing from above...

My baby boy is getting so big!

Rylan had his first month check up on October 10th! He now weights 9lbs 13oz and is 22inch long! The doctor said he is doing great but thought he may have acid-reflux so he was put on medicine. However after only one dose Rylan cried all day.So I decided to just wait and see if just changing his formula intake would help the projectile vomiting and it did! We have only had one episode in a week and that is definitely better! Before he was throwing up every other day, multiple times a day.


Yesterday was a first, but for mommy and daddy! We let grammy (Kevins mom) babysit for a couple hours so we could go to the Fulton Fall Folk Festival! We sure missed our baby boy however we did have a great time and Rylan did awesome with grammy! Rylan also slept for three hours in his crib last night so that was also a great way to end the day!


A lot has happened in the past couple weeks, Rylan is cooing more and awake more during the day. He also had his first big boy bath at the beginning of the month!!! He LOVES the water (just like his mommy!)

It will get better....Right?

I had to switch to giving Rylan all formula :( This hurts me as I feel like a bad mom for doing so... I absolutely loved breastfeeding, I never had any problems with it at all....but because my blood pressure is still high (it's called Postpartum hypertension and effects some mothers after they deliver) I had to be put on some medicine for just a short time to control it and its not safe to take while breastfeeding (even though my doctor said it was LADIES do your research!!!! DO NOT take medicine just because your doctor said it was OK, I have learned now that you need to follow your instincts, and mine were right! DO THE RESEARCH!

Usually the high bp calms down between two and six weeks after delivery. So please keep me in your prayers that I can get it under control and do not have to keep taking medicine. I HATE taking medicine! I try to avoid even taking Tylenol, so taking blood pressure medicine makes me feel extremely unhealthy, even though I eat more healthy now then I have ever before, I know its something that I cant control because its related to delivery and I just have to remember that.

When we initially had to switch to half breastfeeding, half formula Rylan started to projectile vomit :( Once we realized he was just eating too frequently; it stopped once we stretched the feedings. However now he is starting to do it again! The first day on all formula he did fantastic! However yesterday and this morning he keeps throwing up after some feedings. I told the nurse last time we went for his weight check that I thought he had acid-reflux or could be lactos intolerant. She said that either could be right but we would just wait to switch to soy or put him on any medicine for acid-reflux. I am going to keep track of how much he is eating versus throwing up and if it continues to be about every other feeding I am going to push more for seeing about him having acid-reflux. I hope we can get it all under control as it is getting extremely frustrating and the constant need to do laundry is soon going to drain our pockets in buying detergent! 

The first of many first...

Rylans first doctors appointment on September 15th, 2011 went well, minus peeing on daddy and the nurse. All that was of concern was his weight gain. Because of the trauma of delivery my milk had not come in yet until the day prior to his check up so they decided to check his weight in a week to see if he would gain back some of the ounces he had lost while in the hospital. After a second appointment his weight was still not up that much so the doctor choose to allow me to do half breastfeeding and half formula since we didn't think my body was producing enough for him. After a week of doing both Rylan gained a pound!!! The doctor was extremely surprised and very pleased since he only expected him to gain half a pound. Sooo.... as of his last appointment on September 26, our baby boy weighed 8lbs, 9oz!

Since I couldn't get around very easily because of being anemic and the pain from my incision causing my movements and ability to lessen; Mimi came along to help Daddy and I out with Rylan :-D. Below are some pictures from Rylans first doctors appointment!

On the way to the doctors!

Mimi trying to calm Ryry until the doctor came in.

  The same doctor I had as my pediatrician, is now Rylans doctor!!!

                       

 All done and dressed but still not happy after having to be naked and messed with. Daddy and Mimi are trying to calm him down, again.

Heading home, HAPPY!

Rylans Birth