Peanut is 4 weeks old!

I cannot belive that Nicolas is 4 weeks old today. It seems like just yesterday that I had him....except the healing part! That part has really sucked! Gilbert and I agreed that this might be our only child! LOL He is getting so big, I weighed him and he is like 11 lbs now! Of course he is eating like a pig! He's eating almost 5oz at a time, which is not usual for a baby of 4 weeks, but the Dr. said feed him more less often and it should be fine.
So far he is an exceptional baby! He only cries when he is hungry...which is great. When he is pee pee, he doesn't cry, but when he is poopy, he makes the funniest sound...I'm trying to get it on video to post, but it's like he inhales through his chest (you know when you make an OMG sound), it's the funniest thing. He does it like 3-4 times and then we know he is poopy. It's a good alert system actually. I think that what he is thinking is OMG I am sitting in poop....get me out of it! Then comes the fun part...when changing his diaper it's like the human play doh factory, it just keeps coming out and coming out, it's ridiculous! Sometimes it takes like 10-15 wipes, and even then I end up giving him a bath!
My funny story of the day was when Gilbert and I were changing his poopy diaper he peed (saw that one coming!) and it went all over his clothes, back and into the back of his hair!!! Yuck! We had to rush him out and give him a bath! What a character he is already.
He tries to reach up and play with anything dangling in his face...his mobile...the hanging things on his play mat...he's really advanced for his age. He also moves his shoulder forward when his pacifier falls out onto it trying to get it back into his mouth! Not bad for 4 weeks old huh?!

My 1st Mothers Day

Today was my 1st Mothers Day. It was really special because my grams from Melbourne came over to see the baby for the first time. It was nice to have my family come over and see the baby. Then we went to see some of Gilbert's family. Everyone got to see the baby and hold him. He was being passed around from person to person which I soon learned he is NOT a big fan of that!!

Other than that he did really well. I felt so emotional celebrating my 1st Mothers Day, it's hard to explain really, but it was really special!

Peanut is here!!!

Well, I finally did it! I had the baby! Nicolas Alexander Cotto was born Friday May 2, 2008 at 9:32am. He was 8lbs and 3oz and he was 20 3/4 inches long. Gilbert and I checked into Winnie Palmer at 5:30pm on Thursday 5/1, and I was hoping to have the baby that day because Gilbert's birthday is April 1, but no such luck! Dr. White broke my water and then it was time to wait (Thank God for baseball on in the room for Gilbert! haha). I wanted to hold out on getting the epidural for as long as I could just so I could continue to walk around and let gravity help run its course. I got to about 6cm or so and decided that it was time to get the epidural because I was in pain and I was wussing it up! Then the Dr. checked me at like 5ish and said that I had progressed to about 8 cm but that she would come back in a couple of hours and check me again. I needed to get more drugs because the pain was too much! I got more epidural and then I got sick to my stomach and threw up all over my bed!!! I know TMI....but anyway, at about 7am or so, it was time to start pushing! I pushed for an hour and a half and he just did not want to come out at all, so the Dr. told me that I was going to have to have a C-Section.

By that point, I was already freaked out enough, but the Dr. had given me something to help me relax several hours earlier, and it made me really sleepy! Thank God for that one too! Gilbert and I went into the OR and the baby was delivered via C-Section at 9:32am. He is absolutely perfect! Not one single thing wrong with him in my eyes!!! I love this little guy.

He has my face definitely...my cheeks, my eyes (which I think will stay blue!), he had Gilbert's hair color and seems to have his skin tone as well. He also has Gilbert's feet and hands. But in the face, he's a spitting image of me! Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing yet! haha