I Wanna Hold Him

I was in the labor and delivery room a long time.  Thankfully, this time, they didn't yank out the epidural the moment Costner was born the way they did with Jaggar.  When they push on your stomach to get as much out of you as they can, that's like the worst feeling ever, but I didn't feel it this time.  Unfortunately though, it took many many hours for me to be able to move at all again.  With Jaggar, I just hopped in a wheelchair and went to the maternity/postpartum ward.  This time it was definitely in a bed.  I had a lot of people waiting to see the star of the day when we did get to the room.  The labor and delivery rooms are huge.  The postpartum rooms are similar to my walk in closet.  After getting all of our things moved there and getting situated, lots of people wanted to hold Costner Bleu. 

Especially this girl.  She's not proud or anything, is she?

 Ha, look at Jaggar

 All of these are mine!

 Meagan and her kids

 There it is!

 Grandmother

 Angelle (and Kirk) were there, too.

 Everyone kept saying how awesome I looked, which is nice.  But here I can see how awesome I FELT.  I was so tired and hungry.  And thirsty.  I was so hungry that I ate the hospital food, which was not great.  The juice was good though, which I inhaled.

 I'd gotten the kids some big sister/big brother gifts that they opened once we got in the room, too.  Sage just fell in love with this Christmas Target dog, so she got that and was thrilled.

 And she got a Christmas mini lalaloopsy.

 And Jaggar...

 Truth be told, Jaggar loves lalaloopsy more than Sage.  We have several of the mini ones, and he loves anything that he can hold in his hands.  Travis is a bit mortified at this, but I don't care.  They do make a few boy ones, so that's what he got.  Look at his face.  :)  Not pictured is a Hermey bobblehead (from Rudolph, of course), which I'd had since summer for him for this very moment.  He loved it.

 All 3

 So sweet

 Our crew

First Bath

 Next they gave him a bath right in the room, but it was too far over for me to see, so Chrissie took "some" pictures.

 I LOVE the ones of her washing his hair because it reminds me so much of when I used to give Jaggar baths before his cord came off. 

 This one is my favorite.  So relaxed.  This totally reminds me of Jaggar.  They love the sound and feel of that water because it reminds them of being in the womb.

 Ahhh, look at that face.

 Combing his hair

 I'm not sure he was that impressed with being clean.

 Chrissie told me that his toes were crazy long when he was born.  They are long, but I think they look longer in pictures than in person.  He also looks much bigger in pictures than in person.  It's hard to remember how small babies are until you have one again.

 His nails were so long when he was born that they immediately needed to be cut.  But I didn't have anything on me, so he did tear his face up the first night.