our mellow yellow fellow

Our little man has jaundice. We've been taking him into the lab every morning since his birth to get his bilirubin level checked. The poor little guy has 6 little pricks on his heels from blood draws. He has been living on the "bili-blanket", a pad that emits UV rays, to lower his bili level and kick this jaundice in the rear. Just yesterday things turned the corner and his bili level is finally coming down. We are so relieved! He was on the brink of being admitted to the hospital. But he's doing great!Now we are just trying to figure out who he looks like! He definitely doesn't have much hair like Destroy did,

Or Search's.We think he got Search's lips... (this is Search)

But overall he looks more like Destroy. (This is Destroy)

But he definitely has a look of his own. Search and Destroy absolutely adore him and want to hold him all the time. Unfortunately, the have both been sick, so they haven't gotten to hold him much.

He must really like Search because he's smiling here :) Or maybe it's just gas.

He's remarkably calm around them even when they are acting crazy.

Seriously, can't they take normal picture?

Maybe just one or two.

I haven't taken many pictures because, well, now I have three kids. And because he's so, uh, orange. So I'll take some later when he doesn't resemble a carrot so much.

Dodge seems like a very mellow little kid, but who knows how much the jaundice is speaking for that. He's only awake a couple hours a day but isn't one for crying much. Yet. We'll see. I can't imagine having a calm baby. He cries when he's getting changed and that's about it. He's been sleeping great at night, only getting up twice and going right back to sleep after eating and pooping. The last two nights I've even gotten 4 hours of straight sleep in a row!

The labor and delivery were much harder than the last time. This is the first time that I've had my water break and it was a much different experience. My contractions were much slower in coming after my water broke (well, started leaking, really). When things weren't progressing much, they started me on a small pitocin drip. I really didn't want them to because it's much more painful with pitocin, but oh well. They did. The contractions were starting to get very painful and I was sure that I was dialated to a 7 or so, but I was only at a 5. I was stuck at a 6 for an hour or so and I decided to get some Nu-Bane (sp?) to take the edge off because of the pain and because I figured that I still had at least two more hours of these painful contractions. It was not like this with Search! But, it didn't matter because 8 minutes after the nurse put the drug in my IV, he was born. I went from a 6-10 in about 5 minutes. A couple of pushes and he was out. And then of course I was stuck with the narcotic after he was born and couldn't even keep my head up straight.

Recovery has been a breeze. I'm feeling great, just anxious to lose this gut so that I actually have clothes to wear. I'm living in pajamas seeing as how I refuse to wear maternity clothes. Aaron is putting me back on a cross-fit regimine starting tomorrow. That's going to be fun :) Maybe in two months I'll be able to do a pull-up again. Go me.