Well here we are, 2 weeks after Corbin joined our family and I think we're all getting used to each other. Colton plays with his toys (even the loud one) just like nothing is different. He still wants to see "baby" when he wakes up in the mornings, he kisses him and still tells him he loves him. He likes to watch me change his diaper. He always wants to give Corbin his paci. He brings us a burp rag. He loves to gently play with his hair. There are some times, especially when he's tired, that he gets a tad jealous if I'm holding or feeding Corbin. When Corbin is sleeping, I lay him down so Colton and I can have our time. We will either watch Mickey, read books or play.
I'm not going to sugar coat anything and say having a 2 year old and an infant is easy, because it's not. At least not to me. Nights are especially difficult. Adam is still home but that's one thing that I'm particularly not looking forward to when he goes back to work. Colton gets a huge surge or energy right before bed and it's a little hard to get him to calm down.
I have a week to get in the groove of things before Adam returns to work. For the past 2 weeks, we've switched off watching the boys while the other does whatever they need to do. I need to figure out how to do these things without help. I'm sure it won't be as bad/stressful as I think it's going to be. There will probably be a few tears the first couple times he's on shift though. People do it all the time and I'm sure I can handle it. Although, I think Colton may have a hard time with his dad being gone.
We will shortly figure out our new normal. Right now, it's going really well and I'm finally feeling like myself again. I'm just so glad that Colton likes his brother. I was worried about how he would react towards a baby. I'm proud of him.
We have a new bedtime routine that starts about 8:00. I look forward to that time because that means I get to sleep soon ;) I'll keep you posted about how things go! Goodnight!
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Newborn Pictures
Today, we had newborn pictures done by one of my greatest friends!! She also did Colton's year pictures and will do his 2 yr and family pictures again soon. It was fun to get to catch up with her while she took the most adorable pictures of Corbin. Colton and her little boy got to play while we were doing the shoot too! I can't wait to see the finished product and for her to take them of our family as well! For now, I'll leave you with a behind the scenes look of one of the poses...
It takes a special person to have the patience to do newborn photography. It can be very time consuming, plus of course they will pee or poop as soon as you take their diaper off. Or when you need them to be asleep, they will be wide awake...or hungry. I'm so glad she was the one to take them of our little guy. She did a great job and had more patience than I could've ever had!
It takes a special person to have the patience to do newborn photography. It can be very time consuming, plus of course they will pee or poop as soon as you take their diaper off. Or when you need them to be asleep, they will be wide awake...or hungry. I'm so glad she was the one to take them of our little guy. She did a great job and had more patience than I could've ever had!
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Corbin's Birth Story
My due date with Corbin was October 16. My Dr had scheduled me for an induction (if I wanted) for October 15. Honestly, I didn't think I would go to my due date because I had always heard that the second baby comes faster and sooner than the first. Colton was 12 days early and my labor + delivery was about 3 hours. With Corbin, I started having contractions at 33 weeks, so I really thought he was going to be early. Since 33 weeks is pretty early, I had a list of things to do from the nurses on how to stop contractions, but obviously if none of the things worked, then to go to the hospital and they would try to stop them. So from 33-36 weeks, I had contractions weekly. Not Braxton Hicks...full on contractions. Of course once I got to 37 weeks, they stopped completely. So we waited...and waited. I felt like a ticking time bomb.
Well the Wednesday before my induction date, I went to my last dr appt. I was 70% effaced and dilated to about a 3 1/2. My dr was out of town, so I saw the nurse practitioner. She said she really wouldn't be surprised if I went into labor over the weekend and I wouldn't be induced on Monday. But since Colton came SO fast, I had more questions about being induced and the whole process.
Saturday (October 13), I felt perfectly fine. That evening, I picked up Colton's toys in the living room and we went to bed. About 4:30 am, I woke up, thinking that I needed to go to the restroom. I did and once I was finished, I realized my water was leaking. It was exactly what I felt with Colton. Then I felt a tiny pop and a little gush. I went to the bedroom and told Adam my water was in the process of breaking. I knew it hadn't fully broken yet because with Colton, it full on broke and what I had experienced wasn't quite like that. So, Adam got up, we both got dressed and I called my mom so they could come over and stay there with Colton until he woke up. We put my bags in the car and waited for them to get there. By the time they got to our house, about 5 am, I was having contractions about 5 min apart. They weren't absolutely horrible, but I wasn't comfortable either. The hospital is about 7 minutes away and by the time we got in the car and on our way, they were closer to 3 minutes. We get to the hospital, get checked in and once I got to triage and was checked, I was dilated to a 4 1/2. By how badly my contractions were hurting, I thought I would be further than that.
I was moved to the delivery room, got dressed, answered some questions, assured them I DID want an epidural and fast! At one point, I told them that my first baby came really quick, so once they heard that, they kind of stepped things up a bit. I was checked again and was at a 7. Still didn't have the epidural. OUCH! Once the lady got there with the epidural, I got in position and she gave me all the risk statistics, numbed me and stuck in the epidural. Once she was done, my whole mouth went numb, then my face, then my ears started ringing. The epidural had gone the wrong way. At this point, I felt like I needed to push. So after for sure knowing that the epidural didn't work, she got ready to give me another one and the nurse said she felt like she needed to check me again. At this point I was at a 9...in a ton of pain and thinking I was going to do this without an epidural. I got into position again, she numbed my back again and did the epidural AGAIN. This time, it worked!!! They called the Dr on call in, he asked me to do a practice push and said I was ready. He went and got a cup of coffee while I pushed. The nurses are amazing and pretty much do all the work...the drs come in and catch the baby :) So I looked at the clock when I I started to push because I wanted to know how long I was going to do this. It was 7:40 am...
Well the epidural worked pretty good and I couldn't exactly feel how I was pushing. Once I got the hang of it, she kept saying she could see him and he was making his way down. At one point she said he didn't have much hair...then a little while later, she said he had a lot of hair. About 8:15, she told me to push again then said wait wait wait...she called the dr to come in. I pushed a couple more times and he was here at 8:22 am. At first, I thought he looked SO much like Colton. They weighed him and he was 8 pounds 13.4 oz and 20 inches long. And man did he have some lungs on him!! Yes, he has a ton of hair too!! After almost 4 hours of labor and delivery, we had we welcomed our second little boy. I was now a mother of 2, Adam was a father of 2 and Colton was a big brother.
Adam and I held him for a little bit, then he went to get Colton in the waiting room. When he walked in with him, I got a little teary eyed and he crawled up in my lap and told me he loved me. It was SOOO sweet!! We introduced him to his baby brother, but I think he was a little weirded out by the machines and everything. Then my family came in to meet Corbin. Colton seemed to warm up more and touched Corbin and kissed his head.
On October 14, 2012 at 8:22 am, we became a family of 4. I am now the only female in this house, but I have a wonderful husband and 2 perfect sons and I could not be happier!!
Well the Wednesday before my induction date, I went to my last dr appt. I was 70% effaced and dilated to about a 3 1/2. My dr was out of town, so I saw the nurse practitioner. She said she really wouldn't be surprised if I went into labor over the weekend and I wouldn't be induced on Monday. But since Colton came SO fast, I had more questions about being induced and the whole process.
Saturday (October 13), I felt perfectly fine. That evening, I picked up Colton's toys in the living room and we went to bed. About 4:30 am, I woke up, thinking that I needed to go to the restroom. I did and once I was finished, I realized my water was leaking. It was exactly what I felt with Colton. Then I felt a tiny pop and a little gush. I went to the bedroom and told Adam my water was in the process of breaking. I knew it hadn't fully broken yet because with Colton, it full on broke and what I had experienced wasn't quite like that. So, Adam got up, we both got dressed and I called my mom so they could come over and stay there with Colton until he woke up. We put my bags in the car and waited for them to get there. By the time they got to our house, about 5 am, I was having contractions about 5 min apart. They weren't absolutely horrible, but I wasn't comfortable either. The hospital is about 7 minutes away and by the time we got in the car and on our way, they were closer to 3 minutes. We get to the hospital, get checked in and once I got to triage and was checked, I was dilated to a 4 1/2. By how badly my contractions were hurting, I thought I would be further than that.
I was moved to the delivery room, got dressed, answered some questions, assured them I DID want an epidural and fast! At one point, I told them that my first baby came really quick, so once they heard that, they kind of stepped things up a bit. I was checked again and was at a 7. Still didn't have the epidural. OUCH! Once the lady got there with the epidural, I got in position and she gave me all the risk statistics, numbed me and stuck in the epidural. Once she was done, my whole mouth went numb, then my face, then my ears started ringing. The epidural had gone the wrong way. At this point, I felt like I needed to push. So after for sure knowing that the epidural didn't work, she got ready to give me another one and the nurse said she felt like she needed to check me again. At this point I was at a 9...in a ton of pain and thinking I was going to do this without an epidural. I got into position again, she numbed my back again and did the epidural AGAIN. This time, it worked!!! They called the Dr on call in, he asked me to do a practice push and said I was ready. He went and got a cup of coffee while I pushed. The nurses are amazing and pretty much do all the work...the drs come in and catch the baby :) So I looked at the clock when I I started to push because I wanted to know how long I was going to do this. It was 7:40 am...
Well the epidural worked pretty good and I couldn't exactly feel how I was pushing. Once I got the hang of it, she kept saying she could see him and he was making his way down. At one point she said he didn't have much hair...then a little while later, she said he had a lot of hair. About 8:15, she told me to push again then said wait wait wait...she called the dr to come in. I pushed a couple more times and he was here at 8:22 am. At first, I thought he looked SO much like Colton. They weighed him and he was 8 pounds 13.4 oz and 20 inches long. And man did he have some lungs on him!! Yes, he has a ton of hair too!! After almost 4 hours of labor and delivery, we had we welcomed our second little boy. I was now a mother of 2, Adam was a father of 2 and Colton was a big brother.
Adam and I held him for a little bit, then he went to get Colton in the waiting room. When he walked in with him, I got a little teary eyed and he crawled up in my lap and told me he loved me. It was SOOO sweet!! We introduced him to his baby brother, but I think he was a little weirded out by the machines and everything. Then my family came in to meet Corbin. Colton seemed to warm up more and touched Corbin and kissed his head.
On October 14, 2012 at 8:22 am, we became a family of 4. I am now the only female in this house, but I have a wonderful husband and 2 perfect sons and I could not be happier!!
Sunday, October 14, 2012
He's here!!
Corbin Ryan Stuckey decided to make his grand entrance this morning!! Born at 8:22 am, 8 lbs 13 oz, 20 in long. We are all so in love with him already! Colton loves his baby brother. He's given him kisses and checks on him when he cries. It's been a long, crazy day, but we are so happy he's here and can't wait to start our lives as a family of FOUR!! 
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Snow boots
Yesterday, one of my friends was having a garage sale. They had SO many little boy clothes and shoes. We ended up buying a ton of shirts and PJs for Colton as well as a couple pairs of shoes. His favorite shoes are come snow boots. I know they won't be used around here much, but hopefully he can use them in Wisconsin this year.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Trying again
January was the last time I wrote a post. As many of you know, we've had a big change since then. We are expecting our 2nd baby ANY day now. I thought I would try to start this back up to update family and friends of our new little guy and us settling into our new life as a family of 4. Hopefully I will be able to post more from my phone as well since I have that on me pretty much all the time.
I was super sick again with this pregnancy, from about 5 weeks until 26 weeks, it was a daily battle. That takes a lot out of you, especially with a toddler running around. Other than that, everything has gone great! We are expecting another boy. Colton knows there is a baby in mommy's belly and has recently been telling him to come out! Haha! Super cute! When I was pregnant with Colton, I was much more wide, I swelled quite a bit in the 3rd trimester and you could really tell weight gain pretty much all over my body. With this little guy, I am straight out, I haven't really had any swelling (still wearing my wedding rings) and people say I don't look pregnant anywhere other than my belly. It's funny how pregnancies can be SO different, even with the same gender. I am VERY ready for him to greet us.
Colton turned 2, Sept 29. TWO!! I can't even believe it!! It's been so fun watching him every day and seeing all the new things he is learning. His vocabulary has picked up a lot. He does such a good job at communicating with us. Yes, some words don't sound like what they really mean, but we know what he's talking about. We still don't know if he's going to be a lefty or a righty. He switches off, but I think that's normal. For his birthday, he got a basketball goal, tball set, gold clubs, football and soccer ball. We've been teaching him how to play each one. He likes to shoot the basketball, then clap for himself when he makes it. Too cute!
Anyway, like I said, I hope to be able to keep this going and keep people updated about the new changes. I'm just waiting for some consistent contractions. I've been having them on and off since 33 weeks. I think he's just comfortable in there...obviously.
Have a great evening! Hope you enjoy reading again.
Marissa
I was super sick again with this pregnancy, from about 5 weeks until 26 weeks, it was a daily battle. That takes a lot out of you, especially with a toddler running around. Other than that, everything has gone great! We are expecting another boy. Colton knows there is a baby in mommy's belly and has recently been telling him to come out! Haha! Super cute! When I was pregnant with Colton, I was much more wide, I swelled quite a bit in the 3rd trimester and you could really tell weight gain pretty much all over my body. With this little guy, I am straight out, I haven't really had any swelling (still wearing my wedding rings) and people say I don't look pregnant anywhere other than my belly. It's funny how pregnancies can be SO different, even with the same gender. I am VERY ready for him to greet us.
Colton turned 2, Sept 29. TWO!! I can't even believe it!! It's been so fun watching him every day and seeing all the new things he is learning. His vocabulary has picked up a lot. He does such a good job at communicating with us. Yes, some words don't sound like what they really mean, but we know what he's talking about. We still don't know if he's going to be a lefty or a righty. He switches off, but I think that's normal. For his birthday, he got a basketball goal, tball set, gold clubs, football and soccer ball. We've been teaching him how to play each one. He likes to shoot the basketball, then clap for himself when he makes it. Too cute!
Anyway, like I said, I hope to be able to keep this going and keep people updated about the new changes. I'm just waiting for some consistent contractions. I've been having them on and off since 33 weeks. I think he's just comfortable in there...obviously.
Have a great evening! Hope you enjoy reading again.
Marissa
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