Wyatt Grey is here!

Wow, I really need to post more often, but with a 2 year old and a 3 week old, who knows when that will happen. Carter just turned two years old and had a nice party with a Thomas the Train cake. He LOVED it when everyone sang Happy Birthday and asked for more. So cute.

His baby brother, Wyatt Grey, arrived two days before Carter's birthday. They are 2 years minus 2 days apart. Here is Wyatt's birth story.

Wyatt Grey was born on 10/19 at 10/19am.....right around 9lbs. He's cute, a great nurser and hovering right around 10 lbs right now.We had planned a home birth with Vickii. At 32 weeks Wyatt went breech coinciding with, because of,or the other way around, major unprecedented bouts of anxiety and insomnia for me.

I/We tried it all....chiropractor, moxibustion, acupuncture, massages, slant board, heat, cold, music, flashlight, talking, pleading, crying, swimming/diving....ultrasound at 34 weeks to rule out abnormalities, and, at 37 weeks, a version to turn him at the hospital. Nothing, the little turkey wouldn't budge.I researched, discussed, and even spoke with a midwife who had her own vaginal breech homebirth. We decided we were committed to a homebirth, as we couldn't find an ob/gyn willing to do a hospital vaginal breech.

Then at 38 weeks, everyone involved had hesitations. I had a weird feeling that something wasn't right. We all agreed that maybe a c-section was best.I scheduled one at 39 weeks 2 days, as UCSD said they weren't going to allow minors on the maternity ward in the near future due to H1N1. I have a nursing, co-sleeping 2 year old and wanted him to have access to me.

So, we did it...the anticipation sucked (no other word to use). Having a planned c-s was surreal and crappy and all my plans went out the windowBut its done. I took tylenol after surgery for pain (and lots of good vitamins and minerals and arnica prior to and after surgery) and went home 2 days later. The ob/gyn said at the time of surgery that the cord was shorter than average. It took a lot of tugging, pulling, and a very bruised newborn thigh to get Wyatt out. There also went my plans of no vitamin K.

There it was, my second and probably last birth....going totally opposite of what we wanted.

Who knows what would have happened at home....he might have been fine, he may have done nothing and we would have transferred to a hospital safely, or things could have gone totally sideways with a very sad outcome for us.Nobody will ever know....just thought I'd share. But, we're co-sleeping, tandem nursing, cd'ing and loving our crazy Wyatt. Best we can do now, huh?