Brain farts and sleepzombie nights

So for all of you who told me to get some sleep while I was pregnant because I wouldnt get much
after the baby was born, you were right, but not in the way I expected.

No one can prepare for this kind of sleep or "tease sleep." Its like sleep, but certainly not restful and although I dream, I still dont think I am getting an REM sleep cause my brain feels like a zombie brain...

Its weird because Riley is actually a good baby. He sleeps about 2 hours, then wakes for food, then usually goes right back to sleep. But let me tell you...those 2 hour increments of sleep are nothing compared to a nice, full, uninterupted 7-8 hour sleep.

I never could have imagined how hard it is at 5am to want to get up for the 2nd or 3rd time and feed him or change his explosive mustard diaper in a mostly dark room after sleeping about 3 hours total, but in 45 to 75 minute increments with crazy dreams in between.

Because although Riley is sleeping for about 2 hours at a time, he is also making these crazy sleep grunt noises for about 40 minutes of that time and the other hour and 20 minutes I am so awake after having my boob tugged on for 20 minutes that I either cant sleep OR I am listening for his breath on the baby monitor to make sure that since the sleep grunts have stopped that he is actually still breathing.

But what a little guy he is. So cute and funny already. He is already smiling and I could swear that he laughed twice yesterday. He is tracking and looking at faces and able to track the animals on his mobile. He is getting stronger each day with tummy time and his cheeks are getting so chubby its hard to see his eyes when he smiles.

As of yesterday (8-18), he is now weighing in at 10 lbs 2.6 ozs. Almost a whole pound from last Thursday (8-14) at our lactation appointment where he was 9 lbs 4 ozs. How he gained almost a pound in 4 days is beyond me, but as his Dr. described it yesterday: "Some women have skim milk and some women have cream milk...you obviously have cream milk!" She also commented that his "outie" belly button will probably go to an "innie" when he loses his "milk belly." So far his pediatrician is hilarious!

Its funny. I have thought of several funny things to blog about over the past 2 weeks when I am laying in bed, trying to sleep or feeding him at some ungodly hour...but everytime I wake up the next morning or sit at the computer to write...I have a total brain fart and cant remember any of the funny stuff that has happened or that I planned to write about. I swear, I need to start keeping a journal for the journal.

Even more funny, I started writing this yesterday (Tuesday) and completely forgot I was writing until this morning. Ooops....

Anyway...here are some recent pictures of the little guy...more later...

bath time

you got tickets to the gun show?

Riley's stats...

So in my haze of baby bliss I neglected to share any details about Riley in the last blog...oops...

Introducing:

Riley Pete Walker Knight

Born: July 26, 2008 at 11:16pm
Weight: 7 lbs 11 ozs
Length: 20.5 inches

Also, CONGRATS to our favorite party animal: Steve Wilken who won the Riley Raffle!! Whoot whoot!! Since I never collected $$$ from anyone, we will be giving you the grand prize of: BABYSITTING RILEY! Hahahaa. Kidding. We will get you something awesome for your almost perfect guess :)

Its a boy!

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the delay in updates, but as most of you know we had little Riley on Saturday, July 26th by C-section. For those of you who were not properly informed, I am sorry...but hope you understand!

This will be a quick one since I still have over 100 emails to check, but I wanted to update you all with the quick and dirty details of the labor/birth etc. I also wanted to let you know that we are doing great and are thankful for all of your support!

How it all began...

My water broke early Friday morning (July 25th) around 1:06am. Funny story...poor Nick had a terrible toothache and so we spent all night trying to get him comfortable enough to sleep so he could make it to his 7am dentist appointment. Once I got him in bed asleep, I decided to watch some TV. Around 12:45am I decided I better get some sleep myself since I had to drive him to his appt. the next morning. Just around 1am Riley started going crazy, kicking, punching etc. Just then I rolled over to get more comfortable and when I rolled to my side...I passed gas...and then, yes, my water broke as the gas was expelled. At first I thought I just peed my pants...which was becoming a common thing with coughing, sneezing etc...but when I checked...I was pretty sure my water had just broke. Hard to tell, but mostly just a feeling at that point.

Now, because of the severe pain Nick had been in for the previous 2 days with his toothache, I didnt dare wake him to tell him the news since I knew he needed the rest for his root canal AND now, for the birth of our baby :)

So I let him sleep and I went and read my baby book to see how quickly I needed to go to the hospital. Since I was not having contractions, the book said I could most likely wait to go to the hospital. Plus I still wasnt sure I didnt just pee a little.

So the next morning I quietly drove Nick to his appt. and when I came home I realized that my water must have broken due to the continual leakage....So I did the next best thing...tried to sleep a little before Nick called for a ride home. When he called me for a ride I asked "so...how are you feeling, any better?" He said that he was numb, but was pretty sure that he was going to be in less pain. I said..."thats good cause I'm pretty sure my water broke!"

We both started laughing...mostly at the ridiculousness of the timing...but also at the fact that it seems like we can never do anything without several things going on at one time...yea, some people call that chaos. But we just call it...doing things in 3's.

So, I know I said this would be quick, but I thought that was a pretty funny beginning to our labor.

Once we got to the hospital we found out for sure that my water had broken and we were admitted immediately to start the induction.

After 40 hours of labor, an infection in my amniotic fluid, the epidural wearing off and never dilating past 7 cms...a Dr. finally came to her senses and got me in for a C-section at 11pm on Saturday night. He was born at 11:16pm.

Here are some pictures of our little man...