One Week In

Just thought I would give an update on what has been going on since we got home from the hospital.  On Tuesday, the nurse came out to see if we made it home okay and to check on Jameson and see if we had any questions (a standard thing that the hospital does). We thought he looked a little yellow after we got home, and the nurse confirmed our worries. She took his blood to test his billy ruben, and it was very high, so we had to take him back to the hospital so they could monitor him and treat his jaundice. Teri stayed at the hospital with him for one night while he sat under the special treatment lights, and came home the next day. We then had to put him on the lights at home for another 24 hours or so, and they said his levels were back to a manageable level to where he didn't need treatment anymore. He seemed a little yellow throughout last week, but he looks much better now. Ari was a little jaundice when she came out, but we never had to treat it. It really wasn't a big deal, it was just disappointing to bring him home and have to go back a day later.

He has been an awesome baby so far. He only cries when he is really hungry, and even then it is a pretty weak squel. He probably has yet to find his lungs and really let it out, but we will enjoy this while it lasts. It seems like he is going to be very chill compared to Ari when she was a baby.  He is such a tiny little guy, we only have a few outfits right now that fit him.  Even newborn sizes are kind of big.  I think he will fill out fast though being on formula.  In the end though, he will probably be tall and skinny like the rest of his family :).

We are doing pretty good at home. He eats every 2.5 to 3 hours like clockwork so we just split up the night shift and it hasn't seemed too bad. Definitely different the second time around, in a good way.  I feel like my body has already adjusted to the broken up sleep schedule, and Ari has yet to get up in the middle of the night when we are up feeding him, so we hope that continues as well.

Ari has been pretty good with the transition also. She looks like a giant now compared to Jameson, as you'll be able to see in the pictures below.  From the get go, she has been extremely excited for Jameson to come out, and that attitude hasn't changed. She loves helping by fetching diapers, bringing us his bottle, and putting the pacifier in his mouth. The only time we run into problems is when one of us is holding/feeding him and she wants that person to help her with something. She doesn't like no for an answer and usually throws a fit, but this kind of drama existed well before Jameson showed up.  Below is a video of their introduction at the hospital.  She was speechless really, which is really saying something for her :).  Her new thing now is to randomly act like a baby; she'll lay on the floor, want to be wrapped up in a blanket, and whine and ask for a bottle.  We tell her "you're not a baby, don't be ridiculous", and she'll just laugh and go about her business.

Teri got her PICC line out on Thursday and has been off her antibiotics since then and still seems to be doing great lung-wise. When the guy came out to take her PICC line out, he found a clot in the line that was a couple inches long.  This is really scary because he said if that had came loose and reached her heart, it could have caused a heart attack.  The doctors are aware of this risk when doing PICC lines for as long as Teri had hers in, but thank God it did not come loose.  She is starting to come off her high of Jameson's arrival and is slowing down a bit, but that is to be expected I think. Her body went through a lot and she definitely needs this time to recover. Once she does recover though, we are going to figure out a fitness routine or activity that we can do together to help clear her lungs naturally every day and stay away from antibiotics for as long as possible.

It has been awesome being away from work and spending time with the family. And the weather has been so gorgeous here, I don't think I could have picked a better time to have off.  It still seems a little bizarre when we all get in the car to go somewhere and every seat is filled. We are so lucky to have this family, and it is a wonderful feeling to know it is now complete with Jameson's arrival.  Here are some more pictures of the little guy and his homecoming...