The first week was extremely brutal. I cried the entire week and was not hungry at all. Every time I tried to eat I had a gag reflex. Thank God for my parents. I never would have made it through that first week if they hadn't been there.
I never had the really bad postpartum with thoughts of hurting myself or others but just a feeling of being overwhelmed and not knowing what in the world I was doing. I've never really had hands on experience with babies so this was and still is completely new to me. The first night we had him at home, he didn't sleep hardly at all which of course made me cry even more. I worried that I had his diapers on too tight or that he was too hot or too cold and just about worried myself sick. Things are much better now and we are starting to get into some kind of sloppy routine.
The first two weeks we were home, I had to go weekly to have my blood pressure checked at the doctors office, and Blake had to go to the pediatrician about 4 times within those two weeks. They put me on two different blood pressure medications as well as medicine for the bad headaches I was having. After self-regulating my meds, I'm finally feeling better and my blood pressure is much better.
Blake was a little bit jaundice so I had to take him back and forth to the pediatrician to have that monitored. He had to have his foot pricked which he didn't mind at all, and we had to keep him in a sunny window for a couple hours each day. Finally we got through that and he is doing well now.
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