Introducing My Third Angel
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 11:25 pm · 13 views
On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 8:40 a.m. I was blessed to bring a wonderful baby boy into the world. His name is Alexander Richard and at birth he weighed 8 pounds 2 ounces and was 21.5 inches long.
I have not written on my blog in over 3 months and there are many reasons for that. I will not focus (too much) on excuses much but instead focus on writing regularly again.
I have been busy with the obvious… raising a newborn and healing mentally and physically myself. I physically recovered well from my cesarean but I think where I messed up was having two teeth extracted nearly 3 weeks ago. Mentally, I am still drained. I had a great deal of pain from the teeth extraction and I am just now able to set the bottle of pain relievers aside. I definitely should not have done this so close to having a baby. And if that was not enough, I’m going to have hernia surgery this coming Monday. I previously wrote about my umbilical hernia while I was pregnant.
Yes, I am definitely crazy.
Alexander has started to sleep all night long but unfortunately not every night. During the day is when I really think I’m going to loose my mind as of late. He has started to take little cat naps instead of a true nap (anything greater than 30-45 minutes). Just when I think I have him asleep to go do important things like EAT, he wakes up. “Nope Mama, I’m not sleep” and his eyes open wide as he looks at me for attention. I’m nursing Alexander so I often wonder if his appetite is growing and causing him to be cranky and in turn not sleep long. Then I dismiss this thought because his weight is just fine. In fact, for his 1 month visit to the pediatrician, Alexander was at the 50th percentile for all stats: height, weight and head size.
I really should be sleeping at this moment because Alexander is sleep and I can’t count on him to sleep all night long. On top of that, I took two benadryl because my throat started to feel scratchy and I need to immediately handle any possible cold or allergy symptoms. I just had to get this post from my mind to the blog… and it feels good. Good night.
Hi, it’s me again. I really enjoy your posts. Uhm, where are your twin babies? Place the pics here. I want to see it. You have wonderful baby boy there. Alexander is cool name. Do you want him to be like Alexander the Great, when he is grown up?
I have some pictures posted of the twins throughout the blog but if you would like to look at my Flickr, here it is: http://www.flickr.com/photos/missnexus/.