Korvin's Nursery

I should've done this post forever ago, but I kept waiting for some last-minute touches that honestly didn't get finished until the night before I went into labor! Nothing like waiting until the last minute! Ha! Anyway, I'm finally posting pics of Korvin's nursery!  It was quite the project.  It was pretty much a blank slate, so we had to start from scratch.  I found a picture online of the type of wood design I wanted in the room, and Brady & my dad didn't think it'd be a problem.  Like most projects, however, it was much more than they bargained for!  They had to rip out the baseboards and create new ones, cut all of the slats out individually, and basically put up a faux wall of solid wooden sheets to cover up the texture so that the slats could lay evenly! But their hard work paid off, because it turned out exactly how I envisioned it.  Next came the paint, which was pretty nerve-wracking, because not only did the entire thing have to be painted, including the wood, but the colors were pretty bold!  We decided to have a guy come and paint it for us to save us a few headaches, and he did an awesome job!  Then, it was time for decorating! Yay!  We got our furniture at USA Baby, Nanna & Grandpa Thorn gave us the rocking chair, and Nanna made all of the bedding, plus the window valance.  What did I do you might ask?  Well, I guess I was the supervisor! :0) I'm so happy with the way it turned out.  I still need to come up with something to put above the crib, but I haven't been able to decide on what yet, and once we get Korvin's newborn pics I'll put some of those in there as well.  Anyway, enough rambling!  Here it is! :0)

More of Korvy!

Wow! I can't believe how fast time flies! My little bub is 3 weeks old already!  We have been having so much fun together.  It's amazing how such a little person can bring so much joy to your life, and make so many other things in life seem so unimportant.  I'll admit motherhood has been much busier than I thought! It's crazy how everyday it seems like by the time I'm finally ready, picked up my house, and maybe done a load of laundry if I'm lucky, it's time for bed! The little man definitely keeps me hopping, but I can't imagine a better way to spend the day! I only hope I can figure out how to fit work and school in there again!

Anyway, Korvin is growing and developing just fabulously.  He was back up to his exact birth weight at his 2 week appointment, and everything looked perfect.  He's also started sleeping pretty good, thanks to the advice of our fabulous pediatrician.  The first two weeks he was waking up every 3 hours, and would sometimes eat for 1-1.5 hours!  However, our doctor told us to make sure he is eating every 3 hours exactly during the day, and to cut down feeding time to 20-25 minutes, because apparently after that they are using up more calories than they're getting.  So now after his bedtime feeding he'll sleep for about 6 hours, eat, then sleep for about another 4 before getting back on his "every 3 hours" schedule.  It's really nice that he's actually eating so well now though.  In the hospital, it was completely traumatizing trying to figure out nursing.  We tried everything, and he would hardly eat.  It wasn't until the day before we went home that one of the nurses noticed he was tongue tied.  The poor little man couldn't lift his tongue at all, which was making it impossible for him to nurse.  So the morning before we left our pediatrician clipped his tongue, and he's done wonderfully ever since.  I've decided that nursing is way more time-consuming and exhausting than I ever thought it'd be, but I'm glad that he can actually do it now since I know it's the best thing for him.

I guess those are the latest updates!  Not that anyone wanted to know all that, but I like to keep a record for myself. :0) So for the fun part!  Here are a few more pics of our little guy during these past 3 weeks!

Napping with Grandpa

 

Rocking with Aunt Madi...and Axel of course!












Ready for the 24th of July!

 

Meeting Great Grandpa Thorn

Rocking with Nanna at the cabin

 Snuggling with Grandpa Thorn    

He's Finally Here!

The big day finally arrived!  Towards the end, it felt like it was never going to happen.  My doctor planned to go out of town for the 4th of July, so he told me he'd check me before he left, and that there was a good possibility that he could start me June 28 before he left.  However, when he checked me, I was only about 70% effaced and not dilated at all.  Hearing that news just added to my feeling of never-ending pregnancy, and it was so depressing that I had a total meltdown.  My poor husband was so scared that the only thing he knew how to do was send me these...

I just don't know what I'd do without that guy!  And little did I know how right he was!  You know the phrase "When you least expect it, expect it"?  Well, that's pretty much how bringing our guy into the world went!  Just a few days later at 5:00am on the 4th of July I started having labor pains.  I had had so much preterm labor that I wasn't getting my hopes up, even though these pains were much worse than anything I'd felt before.  We were supposed to leave for a parade at about 8:00am, but by then my contractions were about 3 minutes apart.  We debated on what to do, and I opted that we'd better at least get it checked out.  Neither of us was very confident that it would be the real thing, but I made Brady bring our stuff anyway...just in case.  When I went in I was dilated to a 3.  I waited my 1 hour while they watched me, praying they wouldn't send me home.  When the nurse checked again, I was dilated to a 4 and was officially admitted!  I got my epidural about as soon as I got into my room, and it was heavenly!  It made me feel better than I'd felt in weeks!  Shortly after, my stand-in doctor came in to break my water and start me on some pitocin.  I progressed at about a centimeter an hour until I got to a 6 and things started to slow down.  So, my nurse said she'd up my pitocin about every 30 minutes, and that they'd try to have him here in a few hours.  Well, 10 minutes all of a sudden I felt a weird pinching pain.  I thought it was strange since I hadn't felt any pain since my epidural, so I knew something was up.  On top of that, the baby's heart rate began to rise and fall like crazy.  The nurse came in and said she was going to check me again really quick just to see what was happening.  Her eyes got wide as she said, "Are you ready for this?  Apparently all you needed was one big contraction because you're now a +2 and you're ready to push!"  We couldn't believe it!  She asked me to do a trial push, and warned me that we could be doing it for a long time.  I pushed through one contraction and she said she was getting the doctor!  I pushed through one more contraction to get him ready, the doctor came in, I pushed through one more and he was here!  At 3:22 pm we welcomed Korvin Brady Thorn, 7 lb. 6 oz., 19" long, into the world. I was shocked that the whole thing went so smoothly, and I couldn't have asked for it to have gone any better!  So here is a picture overload of our perfect angel baby during our hospital stay and our first days at home together!

 Daddy's surprises for mommy! I love big bouquets and jewelry!