Life with the Wu's: 6 Weeks Later...

We had our baby. Six weeks ago. Why did it take so long to post about it? Well, I'd like to think I've been rather busy chasing Channing around while trying to care for a beautiful and needy little newborn baby boy. Life is good but things have been hectic, no sleep, no me time, heck... I can hardly get to church on Sundays. But its well worth it all. Once Micah is older managing them both will be a little easier.

Mommy holding Micah for the 1st time!

Micah Gabriel Wu was born on September 5, 2009 at 3:50 in the morning. He weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and was 20 inches long. To me he is a miracle. Micah was born via VBAC successfully with the assistance of our Doula Pamala (www.beautifulbeginningdoulaservice.com), my husband, mother, and sister... I suppose the nurses and doctor helped a bit too. Having a VBAC and a healthy baby were my two goals and we succeeded at both of them! It began by going into the doctors Friday afternoon to be checked to see how dilated we were. To my surprise I was at 5 cm already! I think this is due to Dr. Hilton having scraped my membranes twice before in the previous two weeks which got things moving around down there. Because we were dialted favorably and my Doc was going outt of town for the next two weeks I decided to have my labor augmented. So that night I went in and they broke my water at about 9 pm. Labor came strongly about 15 minutes after that and I went without pain medication for as long as I could... because I wanted to avoid needing pitocin. Around midnight or so, I asked for the epidural. Pamala and I had been working through the contractions very well... but I was getting to transition labor and they were more than I wanted to handle. I ended up pushing for one and one half hours (which I thought would NEVER END...and that I was going to DIE!) to see my little boy come out and be lifted onto my chest. He cried, looked me in the eyes and my heart melted. We spent two days in the hospital and then went home to begin our journey.

My Doula Pamala and I

Today, Micah is 6 weeks and 5 days old. I have been attending a breastfeeding support group at the hospital and have exclusively breastfed him from birth. Yesterday, he weighed in at 10 pounds! He is getting so big and breastfeeding has been so rewarding.