growing.

Happy week 5/52!
Isaac is changing before our eyes.
He is now having conversations with us and big smiles. Melts my heart.

1 month old.

Time has flown so fast. I feel like I was just wishing to have this baby and being 1 week late. Now here we are 4 weeks later. Happy 1 month birthday Isaac!
So much has changed including his weight, sleep/eat/diapering schedule, and his facial expressions.
Just these past few days we have figured out the smile, not yet reactive to us, but definitely not just gas smiles. We are also starting to coo a little and recognize mommy and daddy by face and voice. Sleeping is still optional around here.
Here are the most recent pictures of our little guy... he honestly has changed so much!

WATCH ME GROW...

(2 weeks behind)

We had our 2 week check up with the Pediatrician on March 10th. She definitely passed Eric and my expectations (since she came as a recommendation from work) and all went well. With the original problem of fast weight loss after birth, our little eater gained 1 lb weighing in at 7 lbs 14 ounces!! Unbelievable.
Just a note about how much our lives and conversations have changed since Isaac arrived...
During a feeding, there was a loud sound in our son's diaper. Without skipping a beat, we both looked down at the diaper simultaneously and I say, "Oh good... I have been waiting for the past 3 wet diapers to get that." Which was followed by a minute of uncontrollable laughter. Such conversations have become normal around here. He is totally worth it :)

Birth Day!

After 1 week of waiting past the due date, I was trying everything to induce myself naturally before being medically induced Monday 2/23/09. I had been having Braxton-Hicks type tightening contractions for 2 weeks already but my body couldn't seem to jump start the actual Labor contractions (or so I thought). The night of Friday 2/20/09 around dinner time I began to have uncomfortable contractions and Sunday they became every 8-10 minutes that night leaving me up in the hallway and not in my bed. But the next day they slowed down just a bit so I thought it was just like before - a false alarm. We had some visitors that day who brought some gifts (which ended up being a life savor) and around 7:30 pm the contractions were every 5-7 minutes and pretty strong.  So we decided to head to the hospital thinking the whole time they are going to send me home since I wasn't contracting every 3-5 minutes as we were told to hold out for. We got to the hospital around 8:45 pm, got checked in and checked by the midwife. To hers (she had to check twice) and our amazement I was 8 cm dilated! With barely enough time for medication I was moved to the delivery room.

With awesome Eric and nurse Carrie I pushed for 40 minutes started at 1 am on Monday having our baby boy naturally at 1:43 am.

We are so ecstatic to announce with love:

Isaac James Schneider

Born February 23, 2009 at 1:43 am

6 lbs 13.2 oz and 20.25 inches long

Today is his one week birthday, 7 days old. wow.

He is absolutely a miracle, gorgeous, and our lives will never be the same.

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