Holland’s Circumcision
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Today Holland had his circumcision. He did well from what the doctor said, but I didn’t. Not only did I leave the room, I left the doctors office cause I didn’t want
to chance hearing him scream in pain. After we left the doctors he was doing great and slept all afternoon. We go back next wednesday to have the gause removed.
Filed under Holland's News | Comment (0)Papa is coming to town!!!
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- waiting for papa
PAPA IS COMING TO TOWN! All day today Holland and I got ready for Papa! Holland slept while I cleaned and got the house
ready. My dad will be here for 10 days and Mimi will get here Saturday morning! Dad’s flight gets in 10 minutes from now and Holland is still passed out.
My First Swim
Today Holland went swimming for
the first time! Lance, Sherry and Blake came to visit from Texas to swim with us. I took pictures while Holland chilled in the pool with daddy. He did really good! At first he
wasn’t liking it too much but once Doug put him in to his shoulders he really liked it. After that the only time he cried was when Doug pulled him out of the water. He looked
so cute in his little whale trunks! After a few minutes I took him back inside and he took a 3 hour nap.
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- Daddy and Holland swimming
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- So cute!
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- Chillin in the water
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- Sherry, Holland, Blake and Lance
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- Blake and Holland
2nd Doctors appointment
Today we went for our second doctor’s appointment. Holland weighed 7lbs 8oz and measured 21 1/2 inches long! I can’t believe how big he is
getting already! His jaundice is gone and Dr. Tenby says he’s looking really good. Makes me feel good, so I havn’t screwed him up yet. They had to prick his foot again for
blood for another test. Doug held him down while I sat in the chair crying listening to my baby screaming. This being tough stuff sucks! When they were done I took him and held
him for a few minutes to make us both feel better. Doug was trying to push me out the door but it didn’t happen till we both felt better. Our next appointment is next
Wednesday, July 22 at 1:15 pm for his circumcision. Yes, I am freaking out already!!!
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- Before the doctor came in
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- Me cuddling my poor baby
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- His poor foot
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- 7 lbs 8 oz
Holland is doing great!
July 5th, 2009 – Yesterday and today, Jen, Holland and I all got into our normal at home routine. Normal as in, every two hours we go through the routine of breast
feeding (mostly momma) and changing diapers (mostly daddy). We set the alarm for 2am, 4am and 6am. All the other 2 hour intervals we are awake for already. Holland has been an
exceptional baby so far. He has not fussed at all except when we wait more than 2 hours to feed him.
Generally he has slept for a good hour and a half between feedings if not more. He has had a full belly the last two days because Chicken’s milk is in.
I say again – Chicken’s milk is in. Just when you thought they couldn’t get any bigger, they did. Talk about top heavy. Momma can’t even stand up straight without taking a
nose dive right now. Check out Holland’s milk mustache. Now that the milk is in, Jen can pump her milk. That doesn’t sound like that big of a deal, but to me it was. Now I can
feed Holland for the first time.
We took Holland on his first walk tonight. Duke was feeling neglected so we took him on a walk around the block. Duke is adjusting well.
He is very protective of Holland and pops up whenever he cries. He gives us that look like Lassie on the TV show, “Johnny is in trouble down by the well.” I think Duke really
believes he is telling us something we don’t know by pointing out Holland is crying.
My mom sent over a package on Friday that had my first teddy bear and one of my
first books. My Chubby Bear was in just about all my baby pictures. I can’t believe it is still intact. We will take some pics of Holland and Chubby Bear tomorrow to post in
the photo gallery.
We looked up famous birthdays of July 1st and found a few that were notable: Pamela Anderson (Holland wore his I like boobies shirt today* from Monika-
Holland says thanks!* see the July 5th photo gallery), Debrah Harry (Blondie), Carl Lewis, Dan Akroyd, Liv Tyler and Princess Diana. On this day in history (for July 1st):
Warsaw Pact was dissolved in 1991, Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, Canada was granted independence (Canada Day) in 1867, the 3rd day of the Battle of Gettysburg in
1863, Charles Darwin presented the theory of Natural Selection in 1858.
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July 2, 2009 – 8:30 pm – Sooz and Tif came over and made us dinner. Chicken and I just laid
on the couch with Holland. They brought over groceries and cooked. Menu was gourmet shit. Spaghetti with meat sauce (somebody is making a joke right now, I heard it Matt,
Dustin, Joe, Danny.. others?!) A huge salad and cheese bread with so much cheese it could have passed for pizza. Strawberry shortcake with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
Tif and Sooz – thanks a ton from both of us. I had to go get Duke while the girls all took pix with the new arrival. The next group of pix will be some of those and Duke finally
getting to meet Holland late last night.
July 2, 2009 – 3:12 pm – Holland and Jen are finally discharged from the hospital. Chicken was annoyed in the lobby
on the way out because someone got too close to her baby. From now on she is going to cover him with a blanket to avoid that crap. We don’t really want the Paparazzi taking too
many pictures without paying for them anyway now do we. His first car seat trip. Jen rode in the back with Holland and told off every car on the road. “Slow down idiot.”
“What’s your rush jackass?” “Can’t you see we have a baby?” “Honey, you are scaring me – slow down” I cleaned a lot of this up since we have relatives that read this, but you
get the idea. Time to go home and see his room, see Duke and get settled into our new family life.
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Holland had his blood test to make sure he doesn’t have jaundice, etc. The nurse pricked his foot to get blood and Jen cries like someone is hurting him. Then he clotted so
fast they had to prick him again to get more blood. Chicken cried like a little girl who lost a pet. Holland barely even whimpered and Momma cried like she was the baby getting
poked, pricked and prodded.
Momma still has some pain down there and keeps an ice pack on it. Holland has taken to breast feeding like a champ.
Another boob man has been born into the house. Filled out his birth certificate paperwork today. Now they just send us the SSN card so we don’t have to go to the SSA office.
Feel like we just won a prize.
6:26 am – I slept like a champ and set the standard for how this will work. I slept the
entire time between feedings and Jen got very little sleep. She is all pumped up on adrenaline and exitement still even this am. Overnight Holland did very well. He fed every
two hours last night and …. wait for it….took his first poop around 2:30 this morning. Yesterday after the birth time was called out, I realized something kind of special.
10:29 was the birth time. We lost our precious Lulu on 10-29 last October. Right after we put Lulu down we found out Little Chicken was pregnant. It gave us a great feeling and
helped ease the loss of Lulu. Funny how events in your life are linked. Anyway… more pictures:
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9:00 pm – Moved to a post partem room and are going to try and get some sleep. Good night.
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and Starbucks (Thanks Tif!). Girls are all enjoying time with Holland. Jen can feel her legs now and pretty soon they will move us to another room in the Post Partem
wing.
12:31 pm – Holland is doing extremely well. He is already nursing for the second time, opens his eyes, sneezes and
is the most handsome little man that ever could have been imagined. The labor itself was only probably a total of 10 pushes. Holland’s head was crowning and the nurses had to
have Jen stop so the doctor could get to the room before she gave birth. Once the Dr got in the room, 2 pushes and Holland was out. I cut the cord and followed him to the new
born wash area (power washer and a blow dryer). Nurse gave him some shots while the doctor finished up with Jen.
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10:29 am – Holland Clayton Swenson – 6 lbs 14 oz – 20 in – 4 in penis, grape
size testicals. The chosen one is now born.
10:01 am – Water was just broken by the nurse. She is dilated +1. Head is coming out. Jen’s mom just arrived
and surprised her. She’s crying. Next update will be the baby picture!
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still at 5cm. Chicken is getting really upset now. Tif is here. Ryan Martin is here now too. She played a little on the computer and watched some TV, but that didn’t really do
it for her. Hopefully they break her water soon. More updates as soon as we know something.
8:30 am - Chicken is getting upset.
Contractions are slowing down and are less intense. Her water has still not broken. Two other women that got here after us have delivered already. One other is delivering now.
After that baby is born, they are supposed to come break Jen’s water. Hopefully after that, the process will speed up a little bit. Holland is still in a relaxed, no stress
state of mind.
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7:25 am -
we have 3-4 hours left at least. “Nap didn’t work, Hillbilly is keeping me company now.” She can’t move her legs at all so I had to move them for her. She has the shakes but
she claims she is not cold. She looks like Charlie Murphy on the Chapelle show when they went back in time.
6:28 am - Water is still not broken. Chicken
is happy, drugged and trying to get a nap in before the fireworks. “This is the way to be in labor. I can actually enjoy the happy times now,” is what she said a minute ago.
She is at 5 cm and the nurse says that Holland should arrive by noon. She is hungry but they won’t let her eat. I made a few jokes about sausage that the nurse didn’t like.
She said her ass is numb. I said good and you all know what I started to say after that. Nurse hates me.
5:15 am – In our delivery room now. We stay here
until after Holland arrives. Drugs have kicked in and Little Chicken is trying to take a nap. She is 4cm dilated now. Holland has a strong heart beat and has experienced no
stress so far. The balloon is out. Contractions are about 3 minutes apart and still strong. They are going to break her water in 20 minutes or so.
4:48
am - Epidural has taken affect. She is happy as a pig in shit right now. Good call on the drugs. Just a waiting game now. Could be 3-4 hours, could be 12. Nurses say
that 5 or 6 is average which puts us at around 10am or 11am.
3:56 am – Jen says “Fuck off” to everything right now. Contractions are kicking her ass and
she is not taking the pain very well. Epidural is ordered and should be here in the next 20 minutes. She also says no more pictures, but that won’t stop me!
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Daddy! No make-up? Really?
3:39 am – Contractions are around 4 minutes apart. Nurse just said that a first pregnancy progresses at about 1.5cm per hour. 10 cm is full dilation,
so we have at least 5 hours left according to the best estimates. The epidural will slow down the rate of dilation, but she really doesn’t care right now. Got her IV with the
medicine to induce labor and took her blood. She has 4 bracelets already.
3:20am- Contractions are getting a little stronger. Still not dilated past 3cm.
Birth plan is officially out the window. Little Chicken is already asking for the epidural. Never saw that coming!
2:50am – At the hospital, in the
triage room again. This hospital is the worst organized ever. We had a 2am appointment and all the rooms are full. So here we are in a shared room and Jen is very
unhappy.
width="150" height="150" />1:20AM – Up and getting ready to go back to the hospital. Mama is not a happy camper after only a few hours of sleep. Feels like we
are waking up to take a red eye flight. As soon as we get into our room, we should both be able to get a few hours of sleep before the real fun begins.
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height="150" /> 6/30 9:15pm – Back home now. Ate dinner and about to try to get a little sleep. Little Chicken is whaling in pain from contractions and cramps.
Laying on the couch watching TV. Time is crawling by for both of us.
6/30 8:45pm - False alarm. They sent us home until the 2am induction. Jen is pissed
and upset. She didn’t want to leave. Drive home was miserable. Jen didn’t want to go home. She is in pain and I told her to just be tough. Guess that was the wrong thing to
say.
width="150" height="150" />6/30 8:00pm -In triage room, hooked up to the monitors now. Catheter/balloon is still in snug. Dilation is less than
3cm. Some of Jen’s contractions turned out to be just really bad cramps.
6/30 7:15pm -Heading to the hospital for contractions. Coming every 2-3
minutes. Summerlin Pkwy exit off 95 was closed. Lived here 3 years and never seen that exit ramp closed. Only when we are heading to the hospital.
6/30 6:00pm –
I have started getting painful contractions finally!!! We will be going back into the hospital tonight at 2 am to start the official induction. For now we are
“laboring” at home, eating dinner and trying to go to bed for a few hours before we go in. The way I’m feeling right now, I’m thinking I wont get much sleep.
6/30
10:00am- We went in this morning and had an amnio done at the Hospital. An hour later we got the results that his lungs were mature. His score had to be at a 55 and he
was at 56.2 which is really good. After we left the hospital we walked over to the doctor’s office and Dr. Brill put in a balloon catheter and filled it up to force me to 3 cm.
Doug and I went to Olive Garden for the last time as a family of 2 then went home.
We Scheduled an Induction!
Today we went to the Doctor. My cervix hasn’t changed since the last time I saw the doctor on June 10th. We talked about
inducing so Tuesday June 3oth we will be doing an Amnio to check to see if Holland’s lungs are mature. If it comes back that he is good then we go back into the Hospital at
2:30am on July 1st to start the induction. Daddy is nervous and a little unsure about the induction but mommy is SO excited. I’m ready to meet my little boy and I know he will
be happy to meet us!
Filed under Holland's News | Comment (1)Mommy is off Bed Rest!!!
Today I am off bed rest. So now i can “nest” and get ready for Holland to get here. I am
feeling good and trying to get used to being able to walk around again.
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I am almost ready to come out.
Today marks 34 weeks and 2 days in mommies tummy. Mom and Dad are getting ready for my arrival. My room is almost all put together, just have a few things left to do. Mom has
got my bed all ready and all my cloths and blankets are clean an put in my dresser. Only 40 days until my due date. Hang in there mom, here I come!
