My baby is Worth It

I am a terrible blogger. We can blame it on David because he needs his computer for class.  But I am going to try.  Again. 
As some of you may know, we have been struggling with some constipation issues with Matthias.  But not what you would think. He actually goes up to 12 days without going! He is in pain before going, then going is painful, and his poor butt bleeds for days. It is a sad situation. 
The pediatrician doesn't know what to think so we have an appointment with a Children's GI specialist.  It makes me a little nervous because the first thing they are going to do is put a scope up his little hiney. For which they will need to knock him out, and he will have to fast, have an IV and all sorts of things that sound terrible for my baby!

He loves blowing raspberries.  All. The. Time. 

So we are trying something else.  A new diet.  I had our appointment today, and she shocked me right away.  After reviewing our info, she asks, "Is your son the high-strung type? Lots of energy?" Actually yes, it is hard to hold on to him he moves so much! She 'diagnosed' him with extra Adrenaline.  Nothing wrong.  Very simple and normal actually.  1/3 of the population produces more adrenaline than needed. BUT, if you don't get enough fiber then the adrenaline starts recycling back onto the body.  So he has more energy every day! Because his body can't get rid of it. Which makes him hyper, and not sleep well, and be constipated.  The constipation things has something to do with the bile in his body, but I am not scientific enough for that. 
So our new diet. I am only on the diet because we are breastfeeding.  So for now I am included.  But it consists of 
NO Dairy
NO Sugar-in any way, shape or form. Artificial or otherwise.
NO Caffine
NO Alcohol. 
NO fruit-actually it causes his body to produce more adrenaline!
Beans/soluble fiber 6 times a day for him, 3 for me.  We are going to loves beans!
And Water. Lots and lots of water.  A Gallon actually, everyday. 


So hopefully in a week I will be telling you that he is going to the bathroom regularly.  And maybe sleeping.  And that I have gotten over my sugar cravings. If anyone has any recipes they want to volunteer that align with this I am happy to hear them. 

It's going to be rough.  But my baby is worth it. 

New Arrivals

In the last 2 months we have moved 4 states, began grad school and had a beautiful baby boy.  We are the new arrivals in the state of Pennsylvania, which I had to learn to spell once we moved here.  We are new to the community, which has been a welcoming group of 80 year olds from church, new to grad school with David studying 9 hours a day, and new to the realm of parenting, which has been the greatest of joys.

Matthias right after getting cleaned up.  Our little chunk! 10 lbs 2 oz. 

Out little bundle of joy showed up Tuesday September 20th, 2011 at 6:53 in the evening.  Our day of labor was the hardest and most emotional day of my life.  We started out the day on a steady drip of Pitocin after being 11 days late, 50% effaced and dilated to zero.  Much to surprise and joy we dilated to 3+ in an hour and a half.  We were so excited to have this baby! They then broke my water, which to my surprise didn't hurt at all considering they use the term 'break'. 
So they turned up the Pit and left us to labor.  Our doula showed up and helped us along as the contractions picked up at a surprising rate thanks to the Pit.  Six hours later, the doctor came back to find out that we were no further along.  We weren't even fully effaced and the baby was still posterior.  Apparently that means he wasn't even pushing against my cervix, which doesn't do anything to help it efface. So the doctor gave us the option of laboring with an internal monitor on the baby's head or a C-section.  An hour later with no more progress we decided to opt for the C-section, after he told us that even laboring for 20 hours more, with his head pushing down in the right spot I wasn't going to efface any more, and we would end up in surgery anyway.  So we headed to surgery and 34 minutes later he was out! 

On the gurney heading back to our room from surgery.

We are so thankful to have him out but the day left me with so many unfulfilled questions.  Will labor be harder than I can handle? Can I really push out a 10 lb. child? Will recovery be easier or harder when we do this naturally? 

We are so excited to have little Matthias Joseph with us, that it doesn't matter how he got here.  We are doing wonderfully and adjusting to life as the 3 of us. 

New to Blogging

I have never before been into blogging, but I am told I need to begin, especially now that we are having a baby.  So here goes.  I don't know if anything interesting will ever go up, but I will try and post news on our growing and ever moving family. 
First item: We are moving.  To where you may ask? I don't know.  Either north of Chicago or Pittsburgh as my husband has just got into Graduate School for Theology.  But now we need to decide where to go.  Oh, the decisions! I once heard that you are not supposed to buy a house, start a new job, and have a baby within a year, but that just might be what we do within the course of 3 months.  Here goes...