I know this post is a month late, but can you really blame me? I was at home with a new born!
On Tuesday, July 27, 2009 at 5:23 p.m., we welcomed Gage Anthony into the world. I was really nervous that last hour waiting at the hospital before they took me back to the OR. All those ‘what ifs’ were going through my head and I was making my self freak out. But, of course, everything went fine. I got into the OR a few minutes after 5. After some prep, Dr. Raja finally made it in and not even 10 minutes later, Gage was out and they were starting to close me up.
I started crying when they told me his weight. Just all those worries about him being small or having to go to the NICU, I guess. I don’t know why I thought he might be really small because I could tell by how big my tummy got, he was already way bigger than Shaye was. He came out weighing 5lbs 13.2oz and was 18 3/4 inches long. With some big feet and hands too
Even now, a whole month later, I still look at that little man when I’m feeding him and can’t believe we have another baby. All in all, he’s a pretty good one. The first 2 weeks we were actually having to wake him up to eat. He’s getting a lot better at staying awake now but there are some times where he just can’t muster up the energy to stay awake. Isn’t it hard to be a baby?
I update pictures of Gage often, especially since he’s changing so much I want to make sure I get it all so if you want to check out pictures of him, go to our flickr album. Should be updated regularly. Sorry this post isn’t as long as I wanted but I started a new book last night and couldn’t put it down and now I’m going to be late for work if I don’t get off the computer and go get ready. I hope everyone has a great day!
Oh, and I almost forgot! We had pictures of Gage taken at the hospital and they are available online. There is also a place where you can buy them if you choose. Check them out here: Our 365 Web Nursery
On the 6th, Shaye and I got to attend my SIL, Tracie’s, nurses pinning. I’m so very proud of her for sticking it out and getting her nursing degree. Think she said she already has a job set up for her at Midland Memorial Hospital this summer.
Last Thursday we went to Odessa to see Dani’s end of year gymnastics show off. Personally I think she did great but she told me I better not put this video on the internet. Too bad I didn’t listen to her, huh? [Video Source]
Not that many of you know about this yet, but this summer Dani will no longer be a citizen of Texas. Her & Mandi will be moving to Lafayette, LA at the end of July. She’s already enrolled to attend Lafayette High School and is actually there today to test for GT classes next fall. We were really upset at first, especially Mac, but I think it will be ok. We’ll be missing out on alot of happenings in her life and the same for her in Shaye and Gage’s but it’s not the end of the world, we’ll still get her on holidays and summers, etc. We already have accounts set up on skype, so hopefully we’ll get to talk to her more. Plus in September when Mac’s cousin, Aaron, get’s married, we’re going to drive through Louisiana and pick Dani up. Shaye won’t be coming since it’s her first year in school and we wouldn’t want her to miss but Dani will get to spend some one-on-one time with the baby and get to see alot of family that we haven’t seen in forever. Even though Dani won’t be in Odessa next school year, she was invited to join the Permian varsity high school gymnastics team.
Shaye baby is doing good. I go to the school tomorrow to register her for kindergarten. She tells me she wants to stay at daycare to be with all her friends and I try to remind her that they are going to ‘big school’ too so they won’t be there but it’s not really sinking into her thick skull her friend, Cameron will get to go to school in Wink with her next year so I think she is really happy about that but she would much rather him go to daycare with her lol.. I’m thinking she doesn’t really like change lol.
We went to the doctor on Tuesday for a regular checkup. From what baby center says, Gage should be around 2.25 lbs and aroun 14.5 inches. And I think that is right around what the doctor said. He told me that we’ll be scheduling the c-section for around 37-38 weeks which will be the last 2 weeks of July. That’s IF I make it that long. Mom told me to quit being pessimistic and that he could very well be a normal size baby carried full-term, but I just can’t help it. Sorry, that’s just who I am lol.
Jeff’s daughter, Teri, helped us out quite a bit by giving us all of her youngest son’s clothes, a dresser, changing table and swing. It’s helped us out alot but there is still stuff that we need so if you are feeling generous I have a baby registry set up for things we still need.
I have a countdown, posted on different sites around the internet, for my pregnancy. You can choose for it to state facts about the week of pregnancy you are in or you can go with the humor. I chose humor and one made me laugh a few weeks ago. It stated that ‘Mommy can now go to the doctor to see if I have a hamburger or a hotdog’ and that is what we did yesterday. After sitting there for almost an hour and a half (someone stole the room we were supposed to be in) we finally found out the results. And…..
I am so excited. Dani and Shaye have been saying it all along that it would be a boy but Mac was very adament about it being a girl. And now that its confirmed to be a boy, he doesn’t know what to do lol. Here are our sono’s
(click on the pics to get a bigger shot)
This is the ‘boy parts’ shot. It’s sidways so you’ll have to cock your head a little to the right see it right lol
Full body shot. I don’t know if you can see his hand but he was sucking his thumb, or trying to anyway, throught the whole process.
I also forgot to post about it before but I went to the doctor last week for a regular check up. I’ve only gained 2-3lbs (yeah!) so far and to make sure the baby is growing right and getting the right nutrients, we will be getting a sono every 4 weeks or so. I’m not sure if they think thats the reason why Shaye was so small or what. I know she ran out of room to grow but she still should have been bigger for being 36 weeks. And I never mentioned it to the doctor but I was a full term baby, in fact I think I was a week late, but only came out to barely weighing 5 lbs. Apparently something was up with the umbilical cord and it made it to where I didn’t get all my nutrients and did grow right or as fast.. (or something like that) So maybe there was something up w/ Shaye’s too.. Not sure. The lady doing the sonogram did say the baby looks to be around 11 oz right now which is right where he should be for being 20 weeks. So thats all good…
I have more to post about but it will have to wait til later. Just wanted to post the pics and spread the news!
Tuesday, July 27, 2009 at 5:23 p.m., we welcomed Gage Anthony into the world. I was really nervous that last hour waiting at the hospital before they took me back to the OR. All those ‘what ifs’ were going through my head and I was making my self freak out. But, of course, everything went fine. I got into the OR a few minutes after 5. After some prep, Dr. Raja finally made it in and not even 10 minutes later, Gage was out and they were starting to close me up.
I started crying when they told me his weight. Just all those worries about him being small or having to go to the NICU, I guess. I don’t know why I thought he might be really small because I could tell by how big my tummy got, he was already way bigger than Shaye was. He came out weighing 5lbs 13.2oz and was 18 3/4 inches long. With some big feet and hands too 
her friend, Cameron will get to go to school in Wink with her next year so I think she is really happy about that but she would much rather him go to daycare with her lol.. I’m thinking she doesn’t really like change lol.
