The Luckiest And Not So Lucky!

I am sure most moms know how hard it is to get your baby to sleep through the night. The first 2 weeks after Jaxon was born I was lucky if he would sleep 2 hours straight at night and if I could even get him to bed before 2 am. Then by 3 weeks he worked his way up to sleeping two 4 hour strethches through the night. And I was thrilled about that. Now I can say at 1 month he is sleeping anywhere from 6 to 8 hours straight. I don't know how he did it but i do know that he has been sleeping great for about a week now! I have to be the luckiest mom!:)

And on to the unlucky part. For the past week and a half Jaxon has had a hard time keeping his food down. Each time he eats he would spit up just about everything. So this meant that I had to feed him pretty much every hour just to get him somewhat satisfied. :( I have been feeling like a cow because he has to eat so much. Finally Josh and I took him to the doctors because we knew something was not right. First the doctor told us that he might have the flu. Which I thought was weird because I didn't think the flu could last for over a week. He told us to only give him 1/2 oz of pedialyte every 15 minutes for 12 hours. This was torture! Everytime we gave it to him it would all come back up. He was starving by the time the 12 hours were over and I felt so bad. So again today I took him to the doctors and he lost 4 oz and the doctor thought it would be a good idea to treat him for acid reflux. I thought this all along but at first the doctor didn't agree with me. Maybe sometimes they should just listen to the mom! The medicine should hopefully help him so he's not in pain and so he can keep some of his food down. Poor little guy!

Jaxon's First Photo Shoot!

This was Jaxon's first photo shoot. Well besides the photo shoots that I put him through everyday. A friend of mine Katie Elmer offered to take his pictures for me. She did an awesome job! She is just getting started with her photography and is already so professional. Thanks Katie! We LOVE the pictures! He did a pretty good job for only being 2 weeks old. We were able to get some of him awake, sleeping and of course screaming his little head off. I am so excited to start putting up some pictures of Jaxon around our home. We just LOVE our little man!

If you would like to see more of Katie Elmer's work you can go to her photography blog @
www. katieelmerphotography.blogspot.com

3 WeEkS oLd!

Jaxon just relaxing at my sisters pool. He loved it and he was so good!

Sleeping in the car. I am so happy he likes car rides.

He is one serious baby. I just love it when he scrunches his eyebrows!

I can't believe over 3 weeks have gone by since Jaxon was born. Time is going by so fast. He is already getting big to me and it makes me sad. I just love him so much and i am thankful for him everyday!

Back to Work!

So for the past 2 1/2 weeks i have been lucky to have Josh home from work. We were both able to take care of Jaxon and spend time together. It has been so nice! But today was Josh's first day back to work. :( I thought how am i going to be able to take care of Jaxon all by myself? Well I am happy to say today has been pretty good! I was even able to clean and take a shower. Woo hoo! We sure miss our daddy being home!

Welcome Jaxon Daniel Mortimer!

After all the anticipation, Jaxon was born on May 28th @ 12:03am. He was 7lbs. 14.6oz and 20 inches long. Heavenly Father has blessed us with the most beautiful and loving baby!

I knew he would be arriving soon when I started having contractions on Monday evening. By 10:30pm they were strong and were 4 minutes apart. So Josh and I decided to go to the hospital and see if it was time. The doctor told me I was only 1 cm dilated but that the baby had a dip in his heart rate so they wanted to keep me a few hours and monitor him. The few hours turned into the doctors inducing labor because I was over my due date. By 9:00 am they decided to break my water so they could put an internal monitor on the baby and one to monitor my contractions. Within minutes I was in active labor and I was ready for an epidural. I got the epidural @ 11:00 am and it was amazing. I didn’t feel any contractions after that. I was able to rest before the delivery. I was fully dilated 5 hours after I received my epidural. So I thought that I would have a baby by 6:00 pm. Well what I thought was way wrong! Jaxon would not drop into the birth canal and he was sunny side up. So I had to wait to see if he would drop. There was no progression, so by 7:30 I had to start pushing and they had to rotate him. And 4 ½ hours later Jaxon was born. It was not pleasant pushing for that long but what I got out of it made it all worth it!