Everyday w/ JPK

My little man back from giving the chickens some scraps.

Trying out this whole phone blog thing. I is getting the hang of many life skills these days.

I woke up early yesterday and did a little street art around the house before I got up.

so okay it’s been a little less then a year since I’ve posted anything, the ease of facebook and twitter and youtube have slowly taken the place of this blog as an outlet for commentary. But this was never really a place for that to begin with.

Hotdog working the Prosser ten foot bowl.

Isaac is doing great. Smiling and rolling over. I posted a bunch of videos here.

Here’s Isaac with his closest cousin Tillie.

Looking back now almost 13 days to the minute since Randa awoke and her water broke, I want to review that first week of this boys life, before reviewing the second.

Recovery started well with R on her feet after 24 hours. Isaac slept with me the first night which freaked out the night nurse, but was great fun for us. R had lots of annoying monitors and not the best bed for him that first night. So in addition to skin to skin soon after birth I got to bond even more with him through the night. I felt plenty guilty then, but by day two he knew who had the good stuff.

R’s sis Paula flew in Tuesday and was a great help. Having your own personal mom-baby nurse / wonder-aunt to help is definitely recommended.

After two and a half days in the hospital the three of us headed home with the help of P. I and R were both doing really well, recovering and progressing nicely eating, pooping, sleeping, etc.

Isaac got pretty hungry while working through the colostrum for a few days and became a sucking maniac, I resorted to a pacifier fairly quickly though attempted not to let him get too confused.

By Friday he had dropped to 6lb 3oz (~10%) just toeing the line enough to get us a trip to the lactation nurse at the hospital to weigh, feed then weigh again. While there, he had his first real milk burp. It had finally come! The next stage had begun. We went in again on Sunday and he was already up 6 oz.

My mother replaced Paula on Saturday and lent a very helpful hand until Monday when we began week two. Just the three of us.

more images from the first week can be seen here…

So today was long and started early. In fact it started yesterday morning for me.

R had two hours sleep and I had none when her water broke at 12:40 am. Things progressed smoothly, until they didn’t, we were both exhausted and made the choice for pain relief for a little rest, but the slippery slope soon led us to more interventions, complications, a big scare then an emergency c-section.

My brain wasn’t really functioning as I was 90 percent asleep when the C was called, definitely the chaos that ensued was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I felt completely powerless and until they got Isaac’s heart rate stabilized, which took a millenia of 2 minutes, I was not aloud in the OR.

I was in shock after that. I had some fun with Isaac but was nowhere near okay until we got back to Randa. They are both doing well now, and after a day or two more here at the hospital we’ll get to go home.

Isaac Kaffer was born at 12:16 pm January 25th, 2010