So - remember last night’s post about how I was hoarding my pain medication b/c I was scared to run out? Well…I have taken nothing but ibuprofen for about 12 hours and you know what? I kinda feel fine. Almost getting close to “normal.” I’m thinking now about not taking the real pain medication until bedtime to help me rest (because it’s hard to get comfy with an incision) but really? I’m not in much pain.
Leave it to me to be all WOE IS ME! END OF THE WORLD! And the next day? I’m fine.
NikkiZ has been extraordinarily helpful through this whole process. She asks to hold “Baby AndyZ” every 10 minutes. She really wants to do nothing more than just be with him. It’s the most awesome thing. She gets diapers for me when I ask and she carries things for me when we switch rooms. Who wants to place bets on how long this will last? I’m guessing…three days. Right about the time he first spits up on her dolls. Then she’ll be wanting to send him back to the hospital.
Congratulations on the new arrival and I am glad to hear you are feeling pretty good. The photos are amazing.
My most recent c-section had very minor bouts of pain; glad to hear you’re doing well, too. So sweet that big sis is being helpful. My pre-school boys have no desire to hold the baby, but they are willing to fetch stuff for me;>
My (older) brother asked my mom if he could put my younger sister out with the trash for the garbage man to take away when she came home from the hospital… He’d 1) wanted a BROTHER, he already had a sister!, and 2) gotten fed up with the crying and preoccupation of my parents.
So - yeah - I’d give her a few days before she wants to take him back
Because ANY pain medication makes me throw up, I learned very quickly to manage my C-section pain with ibuprofen. It hurt way more to retch for hours.
That picture is priceless — and it freaks me out to see her look so huge in comparison to Andy. Sweet, sweet, sweet.
She looks so big next to that tiny baby!
Nah, I think it will last longer than that.
I was surprised how amazing Natalie was when her first little brother came home from the hospital. So helpful. Trying to help feed him. Bringing a diaper over…
He’s now a little over three years old and her other little brother just turned one. Bet you a cupcake she helps you for a very long time
Don’t give up on her…Scout still loves her baby and it has been 6 weeks.
Congrats on the sweet, sweet baby!! He looks perfect!! Glad to hear you are feeling better!
I’m glad you’re feeling better. I knew you would. Those hormones make it easy to panic, though. I bet NikkiZ will keep adoring her little brother as long as she doesn’t see him as a threat to her place in the family.
I just love how she’s always fussing over him. Too sweet!
Me! Me! I want to join you!
Oh well phooey - this comment was supposed to go on your previous entry… where it made SENSE because you’d asked if anyone wanted to join you. Now I just look like an overeager moron. D’oh.
First, love the picture. Second, my sister and I were totally best buds, so maybe she will just be AndyZ’s best bud too.
Please tell LilZ that I love his photo-stream pictures of AndyZ on Flickr! Those are the best and I wish I had had him to photograph things for me, which of course, would have been impossible because my child is 31! LOL
Feel better Miss Zoot!
If it’s any indication, Alliclaus still likes to bring me diapers and help and Mimiclaus is coming up on five months old.
Just be thankful she’s loving him now, when your in pain and can’t really run after her if she does something wrong. At least in a few weeks if she starts to realise that she doesn’t want a baby brother, you’ll be in shape to do something about it!
Well that’s completely adorable! I hope it keeps up for as long as possible!
OH! How gorgeous is that boy!
And the big sister too, of course. She’s a big sister!
My 2 year old love her little brother for two weeks and then went thru a phase, especially when I was nursing him. When he turned 4 months, I think she finally accepted that he was not leaving.
He is adorable (and so is she, of course). Congratulations.
My first c-section when the doc said, “I’ll tell them to get you some ibuprofen” I almost passed out from the thought of how much pain I was going to be in. And, honestly, I took something stronger than that only 2 times.
The second c-section, I was offered stronger meds but turned them down for ibuprofen. Remember, I was taken like 600 mg of ibuprofen but not loratabs or percocets. I thought I was so cool, I could do it all w/o anything strong.
Then…I had back surgery when the youngest was 4 months old and when they offered me percocet, I wailed in disgust, I needed morphine, oxycontin, death, any of that was better than the pain I was in and they only wanted me to take a few percocet. That was worse than 2 c/sections put together.
I honestly think it all depends on your expectations. I had exploratory surgery in 1984 and it was awful. I was cut open and there was no baby waiting on me when it was over. I remember thinking I was dying. So, that first c/s I was expecting horror, but that baby made it so much easier to endure. Then the second c/s was not a problem, there was a beautiful baby. But, back surgery? Er no, I’m sorry, ruptured discs don’t impress me.
You can do it and you’ll enjoy everyone so much more if you aren’t droggy and use it only at night when someone else can get up and get the baby for you to nurse. Besides, any surgery that produces a lovely little baby is easier to endure than those where they hand you an appendix, a gall bladder or a lumbar ruptured disk, or 3…..
Congratulations!!! Enjoy!
Oh I don’t know. LilZ is so amazing - it must be genetic. Based on that picture and your track record for great kids, I think she won’t be asking to take him back anytime soon.
What a great picture.
Aww they are gorgeous together!
What a gorgeous photo!
As for you being “dramatic,” I think that the medical profession feeds into that. I had to have emergency surgery two years ago - and the surgeon, who was a butt-head, told me that I would need “a lot” of pain medication afterward, and to expect to be sick from the meds, and out of work due to the surgery, for two weeks. This scared me to death - I’d rather be hit by a bus than puke (seriously). Turned out the surgery was more complicated than they thought, AND it turns out that I am allergic to ALL narcotics (a tiny shot of morphine made my face blow up like a puffer fish) - so Tylenol or Advil were my only choices. And you know what, I was absolutely fine, and back to work two days after surgery. We’re all stronger than we think.
I wanted to give my congrats, he’s beautiful. Glad to hear your feeling so good too!
I love th epicture of your two lilest ones. Both are beautiful…..
That is the most adorable picture ever. She looks so sweet with baby Andy. I hope it lasts much longer than just three days. Congrats on the pain going away, too. That must be such a relief!
look what a GREAT big sister she is!! That is a sweet sweet pic!!
Congratulations! I totally forgot I was way too drunk and thinking about me to realise that folks were doing other things, though I’m sure if it wasnt for the searing pain and stuff you would have been obsessing on me, its only natural. we all do it, only some of us are brave enough to admit it!
Seriously delighted for you, and what a cutie!
That pic is so precious. You get some really awesome pics of your kids. I want your camera!!!
Quite possibly the cutest picture ever!