Levi James Feenstra: The Birth Story

Levi James made his debut on April 6th, at 9:57pm, weighing just under 7.2 lbs and 20" long. My induction went fantastic. I went from 4cm to 9 in a matter of 3 hours and from 9 to 10 in about 30 min and I only pushed twice and he was safely in my arms. 

 

He is a fabulous eater. Sleep is decent, and Brooklyn and Ben are madly in love with him.

 

His nick names currently include "nugget", "little man" and "LJ".

 

Brooklyn full on talks to him in baby talk and it cracks me up. She wants to be a little mama to him and she does a pretty terrific job at it. She does get a little over confident from time to time and attempts to throw him up on her shoulder like I do when I burp him. She has been so eager to stand up and hold him (in her mind I think that is the epitome of "big girl status").

 

We are all adjusting to our new roles and the juggling of having one more person to care for. Here are the pictures from his delivery and the first week following his birth. What a total joy he is. He truly completes our family, he is the missing piece that we didn't even realize was missing.

 



 

Movin' on

We moved! Hers how that week went down:

Tuesday April 1st we got keys to our new house. A group of friends helped Matt move the boxes and then we came back to 64th and slept on our mattress while the kids stayed with josh and Christie. I had contractions the whole night.

Wednesday April 2nd the movers came and I had my final dr appointment, and like that we said goodbye to our sweet little house on 64th ave and I came home with the kids to our new house on greenwood ave. 

The long awaited key!! On my 38 week belly, surreal.

While I was at my dr appointment Matt texted me this picture with one single bad word :) he had just locked up the old house and closed the van with the final load (including the lawn mower) and the handle hit the back window and shattered it. 

Then that first night in the new house Benny woke up hysterical and after 3 hours of him in tears I finally concluded that his ear hurt. The next morning we headed to the dr to confirm my suspicion that he had a raging ear infection. I also got out on antibiotics for a sinus infection.

The two sickies being miserable

Then on Sunday Matt and I headed in to the hospital to have our third and final baby. This was Friday night, our final date night and my last belly pic.

That was our week! Moved, 4 days later this sweet boy was in my arms.

Sweet boy of mine

I went in to kiss this baby goodnight and found this. Ben gripping his Spider-Man action figure, asleep with his sword. I could not love this child more if I tried with all my might.